Senate passes police reform bill

He acts in the best interests of one segment of his district. If candidates run and people get out and vote in proportion to diversity of the district, he would be out. And there could be someone in who actually represents the needs and concerns of the whole district.

Your job is less dangerous than that of pizza delivery drivers, farmers, loggers, electricians, construction workers, lineman, garbage pickup or tax drivers.

When one of you stubs a toe you get a month long paid vacation and a parade.

don't want to be "falsely accused"? don't turn off your body cam unless its to take a piss/shit.

don't want to be "falsely accused"? don't stand idly by when your fellow officers doing horrific shit. restore public faith in the idea of due process.

if either of those are too hard to undertake, perhaps you're in the wrong highly paid, generously benefited, and wildly generously pensioned field of work. yeah, occasionally the job has danger. but it was a voluntary profession to join. you weren't drafted to be a cop. the possible risks weren't hidden from you.

And I know some will say that if I’m doing the job right I have nothing to worry about - but that has not been my personal experience, as I have been falsely accused in the past.

Try not being a cop and banking on "if... then nothing to worry about." There's no thin blue line protecting the rest of us.

Stopping crime is good and honorable.

Violating people's civil rights is bad and dishonorable.

If you can do the first thing without doing the second thing, great! Stay a cop!

If you can't do the first thing without doing the second thing, the citizens would like to examine alternative candidates.

And if you can do the first thing but are annoyed that you're a position where you're made to look bad by people who do the second thing, or you are asked to cover for them, you might actually benefit from some of your least-stable coworkers find other vocations.

As with other professions (teachers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc.), a risk is that you will occasionally be accused of misconduct. Sometimes those accusations are false, but in good faith; sometimes they're just in bad faith; occasionally you might make a mistake. It's very stressful to be accused, falsely or truthfully (in different ways). But most other jobs don't come with the protections, pay, and benefits yours does.

If you think you can do a good job--can serve and protect--we still need good cops.

I've been at a bunch of these protests; I think policing needs some reform. To be fair: I think other professions do, too. Got lots of complaints about how doctors practice (and bill); how teaching works (or doesn't), etc. Turns out American institutions are... mostly not doing so great.

crime always spikes in warm weather.

throw in anxiety of living under COVID for 4 months.

throw in social unrest on pretty much every possible level.

but sure, crime is surging because the police are being criticized & their future budgets are being examined.