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holy shit Cracked still exists
U.S. courts have ruled on numerous occasions that the police have NO duty to protect you.
They pretty much only have to show up after the fact and take a report, maybe draw a chalk outline on the pavement and stuff your ass in a body bag.
Cops are very useful. If a crime happens to you, they’ll fill out a police report so you can send it to your insurance company.
So cops have no duty to protect you but also have the right to kill. Nice
RIP Old School Cracked, they got done so dirty.
‘I love how on cop cars “to protect and serve” is in quotations, like they’re being sarcastic.’ -Neil Brennan
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I think this american life did a piece on this story as well, goes into much more detail, if not it was radiolab. (i mix the 2 up all the time, the line is quite blurred in my head. ) its great a listen, highly recommend.
yep radio lab
https://radiolab.org/episodes/no-special-duty
im sure you can find it in other archives as well.
Hey by the way, I’m the new Cracked video guy (after cold-pitching a video I made in my friend’s basement during quarantine) and we may not have the roster or the budget we used to, but I still think we’re making some cool stuff (including rebooting Honest Ads!).
Classic Cracked video. I miss their golden age with Swaim, Bowie and O’Brien.
While I am here, if anyone knows of a modern equivalent to obsessive pop-culture disorder, please let me know. I’m desperate for more intelligent pop-culture nonsense.
Looking at the art style this animation must have been by [Winston Rowntree of the classic web comix Subnormality](https://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html), right?
Only thing NY cops are for is to extort their power and abuse whatever citizens they deem fit.
I went to jail for a few days and had to stand on trial because my mom fell. I didn’t even have anything to do with it, my parents called an ambulance and the police chief came saying “Well, we have to arrest someone.”
Fuck NY police, they do literally no good.
Oh yea. We were having an alarm system removed from our house and it triggered a false alarm. The cops showed up more than an hour later. Once they confirmed there was no actual incident, they sent us a fine, and said we could just buy the “alarm insurance” from them to get two “free” false alarms per year.
Made me so mad…
Yup, the cop in the Parkland school shooting who thought his own life was worth more than the lives of a few kids that weren’t his and refused to enter the school was initially fired, but then got his job back because the law was actually on his side.
Multiple SWAT teams in the Columbine shooting refused to enter the building. One commander said “a dead cop can’t save any lives.”
And now we have the Texas incident.
Meanwhile US cops really excel at killing three people and 20 dogs per day.
Watching this years ago changed my perspective
I’m a napkin man and I’m proud!
Police have no legal obligation to help any citizen thanks to [Warren v. District of Columbia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia)
This seems like a really good reason to want an armed populace. The cops won’t help you, so you need to be able to help yourself.
They won’t even help your children if they’re getting shot up. They’ll close the active shooter into a room filled with your children and call it a day.
Or as yesterday showed, they are perfectly happy to leave your kids to die, including in one case helping kill your kid but saving their own children AND preventing someone from saving their kids, ya’know, like the cops got to do
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. SO ALL THIS “BLUE LIVES MATTER” HORSESHIT WAS POSTURING. I NEVER WANT TO HEAR ABOUT COPS HSVING A DANGEROUS JOB EVER AGAIN
I use to work at a government building with state troopers acting as guards. At an active shooter training, they were crystal clear that they would not help you. They would only attempt to disarm the gunman once it was somewhat safe to do so. They also warned us not to run to them for help because we could get mistaken for a threat and be killed by a trooper. We were also instructed that, if we were running for our lives, it was best to keep our hands up because, again, perceived as a threat could = death.
Their safety is always their number 1 priority. Their fellow officer’s safety is number 2. We are coming in 3rd at best! Everyone in the US should remember that in general cops will not risk injury, or their lives, to help people.
I was stabbed in July of 1970 in Baltimore. There was a cop car less than half a block away. They must have seen the whole thing. As I staggered toward it, waving, they drove off. Two hippies, who had been standing just beyond the cop car, got me to a hospital (where I almost died).
Like they say, if you don’t like cops, the next time you’re in trouble, call a hippie. An’ it worked too!
Lozito actually did narrate the video, Gelman got 200 years
>On January 18, 2012, Gelman appeared in the New York Supreme Court, Kings County, for his sentencing. Sitting in court next to his attorney, Edward Friedman, Gelman was reported as being “unruly”, laughing or yelling at the judge and the family and friends of some of his victims. At the conclusion of the trial, New York State Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice sentenced Gelman to 200 years in prison, telling Gelman, “You are a violent sociopath.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree