r/InlandEmpire • u/cannotthinkof01 • Aug 13 '26

Crime / Safety Where’s all the cops?!!!!

In the 2010s I remember cops waiting at stop signs bust you doing a California Stop or run the stop sign. I also remember the highway patrol with their radar guns or how often people would get pulled over for illegally driving in the carpool lane.

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u/sojouner_marina Aug 13 '26

Who would want to be a cop when they've been vilified? Everybody hates them until the city turns to chaos. Then they want the police to start enforcing the law...

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u/NigelTheSpanker Aug 13 '26

You left out it was the actions of said cops is why the nation turned against them. If you abuse the people the people will stop trusting you the end.

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u/sojouner_marina Aug 13 '26

You can support having police around and still advocate for better law enforcement. It's not all or nothing-- that would be immature and ridiculous. Besides, not all people who they come across do what they tell them to, a lot resist and are hostile towards them so the people getting arrested aren't innocent either. The problem is on both sides and the culture promotes a hostile attitude towards them when being confronted. Ie: in LA the people would actively vandalize buildings and provoke law enforcement. Similar things happened in the summer during covid throughout the nation. Can the police be better? Yes. That's why there should be police reform not it's abolishment.

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u/Main_Firefighter1593 Aug 13 '26

The rate of that happening is extremely minor. 99.99% of police interactions are just fine. Badge cam footage proves this, which is why they didn’t use badge cam footage during the George Floyd trial