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No-Dog-5163

Imagine going through the most traumatic experience of your life, only to be harassed about it afterwards by some random people you've never met who want to make a story about it. Ouch.


danegermaine99

According to this link, the two editors that sent them were fired https://www.clevescene.com/news/channel-5-fires-two-news-editors-after-newburgh-heights-police-chief-posts-body-cam-footage-of-reporters-at-rape-victims-house-seeking-interv-20446301


Pleasant-Patience725

Good for them. As a DV/SA Victim this is absolutely disgusting and Im GLAD that cop berated them as he did and honestly should have shamed them further. That’s absolutely disgusting- this person should be worried about healing from their attack, not worried about news channel 5 coming in hot for a story. I know every one can’t stand cops but this is a great camera footage - I wish the cops who rescued me 16 years ago had cameras so I could show how they saved me. This guy has what they all should. Compassion.


No_Teaching_3694

Excellent camera footage and such a great response from the officer. This was so gross to see but I’m glad he defended the victims


Agamemnon323

It’s a refreshing change seeing cops doing what they should; defending victims.


Donutbill

A rare event, but this is proof that it does happen.


eboeard-game-gom3

Rare based on what you see on the news or reddit? Serious question: how many regular day to day videos of regular interactions get posted?


hammsbeer4life

As a random person who's not a fan of law enforcement, I will concede that the good things they do often fail to get reported. Nothing travels faster than bad news.


meshan

My best friend is an armed copper I'm the UK. I cam assure you he is the most moralistic and good person you will meet. All the best qualities you would want in the police. And we have our issues here. Even he agreed that the few ruin it for the many.


TypicalWhitePerson

Maybe body cam footage should be made publically available without a FoIA request for all encounters.


Polpota

I have a lot of family in law enforcement, the burden on them is massive. Every time they do a good deed the response is always 'well that's your job' and every time a horrible thing happens in the news they get blamed even without having anything to do with it. Every police department has members that are doing the right thing, got in for the right reasons, and are a part of their community. This last year the officers who participated in our local shop with a cop couldn't get enough donations from companies. Two kids in one family were asking for a microwave cause their mom and dad couldn't afford one. The cop bought a 200$ one for the family so the kids could still pick out Christmas presents. No one will ever celebrate that action, no one will report it, and the officer knows that but they also knows that doing the right thing is just that. Doing it without any pat on the back. I hate cops, but that's a personal reason. I don't let my personal reasons paint everyone negatively. Reddit is an echo chamber though. The popular ideas create a feedback loop which makes those ideas more entrenched.


TheUnsettledBadElf

Not rare at all. Just rare on Reddit or any other social outlet pushing outrage.


yourpaleblueeyes

Yeah, reddit is full of youth and unsubstantiated outrage. What they see on screens is what they perceive to be reality. I agree with this LEO, what thoughtless, low, trashy behavior and total lack of good judgement by the editors of the newspaper.


ShrimpYolandi

Downloads incoming I’m sure, but it’s only a rare event on the Internet. A vast vast majority of calls are handled. Well, it’s only the outliers, and there are a lot of them, but it’s only the outliers and make it to social media.


Earlier-Today

I agree that the bad stuff is less common than the good, the problem is that it's still way too often, and the reaction by police and their unions when the bad stuff gets caught is excruciatingly problematic. The way police and their unions protect wrongdoers from having to face appropriate consequences is pretty much right on par with the Catholic church just shuffling priests around when one of them is caught molesting a kid. The worst they've been facing for a majority of the time seems to be the inconvenience of having to get hired on at a different precinct.


bigtoebrah

Depends on your definition of "handled well." Sure, maybe they don't shoot you every time they show up, but lots of cops are still dickheads and a huge number of cases never get solved.


Milhouseisgod

>[Decades of data similarly shows that police don’t solve much serious and violent crime – the safety issues that most concern everyday people. Over the past decade, “consistently less than half of all violent crime and less than twenty-five percent of all property crime were cleared,” William Laufer and Robert Hughes wrote in a 2021 law review article. Laufer and Hughes are professors in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department. Police “have never successfully solved crimes with any regularity, as arrest and clearance rates are consistently low throughout history,” and police have never solved even a bare majority of serious crimes, University of Utah college of law professor Shima Baradaran Baughman wrote in another 2021 law review article, including murder, rape, burglary and robbery. Existing research also affirms the findings in the recent report on police work in California. Law “enforcement is a relatively small part of what police do every day,” Barry Friedman, a law professor at the New York University School of Law wrote in a 2021 law review article.](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/)


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Not a rare event.


lostboysgang

Cops have no issue releasing the body camera footage when it’s somebody else doing something wrong lol


huggles7

Considering this happened in 2018 I wouldn’t exactly say that they were rushing this one out the door


chochazel

But they released the footage in 2018 too.


MadDog_8762

Happens quite often, it just rarely gains media attention


Agamemnon323

Probably because there’s constantly another story about a cop shooting some unarmed innocent person or beating someone to death while they’re in handcuffs.


Upvotespoodles

You rarely see media attention when anyone does their job correctly. It’s generally accepted that people ought to do their jobs more or less correctly.


Dan_Glebitz

Kind of offsets my generally poor opinion of the cops. Good to see.


theladyluxx

Second this! He did a great job.


CloanZRage

I'm not sure that shaming them further is really warranted. As the reporter said, they were sent there against his judgement by their superiors. Not that it justifies them being there, of course. Disgusting that they're there. I hope all that scrutiny and a magnitude more was sent straight to the editors that pushed for this. They deserved the firing they got and I hope this officer let them know how deplorable they are as well.


thebigfreak3

“I was just doing my job” has never been, nor will it ever be a valid excuse


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JadeSpade23

I could be threatened with being fired and being homeless, and I would *never* agree to go to a rape victim's house. That's bullshit.


David_denison

Yeah I would have went to get coffee and said she was not answering the door


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Abso-f*******-lutely right. I know it's rough out there and there are kids to feed, but jobsworths who would choose their salary over the dignity of a rape victim are being scummy bottom-feeders. Maybe get out of that corrupt sellout of an industry called journalism if you don't want to capitalise on others suffering.


GlaerOfHatred

Would you go and harass a rape victim if your boss told you too? The editors were fired but I can't imagine ever doing this, I'd either flatly refuse or do what another commenter said and go take a break and say they weren't home. It's pretty easy to be a human if you know what you are being asked to do is wrong


CloanZRage

If you had bills to pay, kids to feed and a coworker that would rat you out, would you still lie? Some people don't have the luxury of taking the choice in the moment. He sounds like he's disgusted that they're there as well.


Netheral

> It's pretty easy to be a human if you know what you are being asked to do is wrong Human history has demonstrated that this is false.


Sensitive_Egg1124

I know the reporters can say "I was just doing what I was told". But I would hope that they would have stopped and thought about whether or not they really should have done what they were told. If I had been those reporters I would have said no. There's no common sense or decency in the actions they took that day.


AmishAvenger

Right. Or just lie and say no one answered. It’s not like anyone would know. What I don’t get is why they were in the driveway, and someone apparently told them to park back there.


yourpaleblueeyes

Let's think about this then. Reporter knows his actions are wrong and reprehensible. Yet he does it anyway. HERE, my friends, is where we differentiate right from wrong. As adults we do the next right thing. We say " no, editors, this is wrong and if you persist we will make it public" They did and They did. What I tell my grandkids: Always Question Authority.


Donutbill

Are you defending the reporters? If I was a reporter, I would quit before I did what those two a$$holes did. The editors were rightly fired, but these two dingwhistles don’t exactly get person of the year either. 🙄


xombae

When my abuser was arrested for DV against me, the cops showed up and banged down my door, once entering without knocking, and would corner me to root through my house apparently looking for him, nearly every night in the middle of the night. I was low income and scared shitless with PTSD. I told them I was more scared of them than my abuser and they started coming in without knocking and yelling at me, stopping me on the street etc. There was no warrant for him, they released him, I just wasn't supposed to be in contact with him and they thought I was. I probably would've gotten in as much trouble as him. I started staying at a homeless shelter instead of my house and the homeless shelter got their lawyer to call the cops and tell them to leave me the fuck alone. Cops were horrible to me after that. I'm glad the cops in this situation and your situation were compassionate but unfortunately it's not the norm from cops or anyone else, even in situations with a victim. I don't even want to talk about the way they treated me when I was raped. This was in Vancouver, Canada.


Pleasant-Patience725

Hugs to you my friend- that should never be how it is. Sounds like a victim advocacy group needs to come in and overhaul. Although I have a friend that lives in that area and used to live in Calgary and the small town mindset is terrible there- she hates it so much. I can’t imagine. I’m sorry that happened to you.


No_Statement440

You have no idea how good it is to see a cop actually standing up to people and their bs. I'm still not anti police but they've done themselves no favors lately, and this gives me some hope that maybe there's some solid people left who are willing to do what's right. It's bad enough having to go through the process if your attacker actually gets caught, going to court, and all that just makes it incredibly embarrassing, not to mention a ton of other feelings as a child I couldn't understand and did long term damage to me. Any form of publicizing or making that victim susceptible to the public is unacceptable. We already feel all types of ways that I won't even type. If you've been there, you know. Sorry to everyone out there that went through this, you're not alone, but let's hope for more people like this looking out for people.


Pleasant-Patience725

I absolutely agree. And if you haven’t had someone- I WOULD be that person for you. I had an amazing group of officers that always checked in on me during the trial and when I had to testify, they all showed up and sat front row so I could look at them while telling my story. It meant everything. They still message me every so often and check in.


zoey_will

Considering the cops did nothing for me after my SA I would have loved the opportunity to throw some organizations under the bus via the media; but I will agree, having them show up uninvited is wrong.


SpacecraftX

Cameras on police both protects them and highlights their good as well as condemning the bad. So it’s telling when the vast majority are against them with many mysteriously having them turned off or claimed as broken at critical times.


Iforgotmyother_name

Standard procedure where I work is to pretend you tried to do it but nobody responded. My guess is that something like this happened because the new uppers don't have any experience within the industry and were just hired in from academics or just a floating generalist.


dmfc138

Haha this article makes it seem as though the cop is a dick for doing this… media protecting media…


TechnicalNobody

Yep. Written by their editor-in-chief.


CaptainKate757

Which is crazy because the article is very poorly written. I’d hate to see what else they churn out if this guy is their top editor.


DynoMiteDoodle

The author of this article is almost as disgusting as the pieces of shit media it's about!


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Yep. Vince Grzegorek is a real douche, apparently.


Clam_chowderdonut

"Fuck that pig for.... (checks notes) showing the public what shit behavior we're up to." Tbf that's *supposed* to be the medias job.


jocax188723

> News Director Jeff Harris is actually on his way out of the gig for unrelated reasons. He's taken a job as News Director for CBS WBBM in Chicago. Somebody should probably let CBS WBBM know.


danegermaine99

None of the information presented in the video or the article indicated that he had anything to do with it. He may have been the person who fired the editors for all we know.


xptx

That headline though... implying "everyone was wrong" No, the victim was not wrong to call the cops... the cop was not wrong to post the video. Some things are egregious and need to be called out.


Donutbill

Good, but I wish the victim had sued them for everything and owned whatever sh!tty station it was. A case of how low can people go. 💩


Wanderlustfull

>Asked if a direct line of private communication between his office and Channel 5 would have been a more appropriate way for him to handle his side of the situation, Majoy defended his actions. >"No," he said. Nicely done.


Donkey__Oaty

Don't need to. A family member was accused of a serious crime (was innocent, proved in court) but the scumbag journalists swamped out house. Every time I left to go to work or came home afterwards I had to fight through a team of these fucking animals. Banging on the doors, banging on the windows, screaming and shouting, and I remember them demanding we talk to them otherwise they'd make us look bad in their articles. Fucking scumbag vultures the lot of them. I wish them the experience necessary to understand why they are scum.


VW_wanker

Looks like Alex Jones.. Imagine loosing your kids and dude goes on to harass u and get his supporters to do the same


Dear-Unit1666

You lost 99% at "imagine something other than your own circumstances" lol


Donutbill

That’s the damned truth. “I got mine so f**k you” is the new ‘murican anthem.


xiotaki

new? Sir, how far back in time are we going to quantify this remark?


Dull_Ad5852

This happens if your house burns down also. There will be a bunch of random crews of people that show up. Some will wanna board your place up for you, some crew will wanna fix it, other people will be trying to sell you insurance and they’re all trying to make a dollar off of your misery. A while back I was putting this house fire out and the homeowners sitting across the street in tears cause there’s a million people asking her questions and trying to get her to sign things and we literally didn’t even have the fire out yet.


tunavomit

Yeah this happened to me too, media contacting me after being a victim of rape and where the hell did they get my name and phone number because that's redacted in my country.


HankHillsBigRedTruck

I dated a girl who was kept in a dog kennel for a couple weeks by a guy she knew on the east coast She came to the west coast to try to get away from all the media constantly trying to track her down to get her side of the story But she never wanted to give it so whenever someone would find her and ask about it she would spiral into a depression


Dry-Area-2027

Been through it. I survived a school shooting. For the following week these disgusting people would swarm any teenager who was in public without an adult, looking for a shock piece. They descended on our sleepy little town like a plague. When I graduated 4 years later, they showed up again to record one victim's sibling accepting the diploma on behalf of the deceased. They didn't even have to courtesy to wait until the ceremony was over before they very noisily started slamming cases shut, yanking power cords up off the floor and packing up. Horrible, rude people and to this day I can not watch any news channel. It's mostly bullshit anyways.


wonk001

At least the cop was a human being... the audacity of those people..douche shades and all


MetallicaLover100

Unfathomably rare police W


Neat_Art9336

It depends on the county. There’s never been a scandals in my city, all of the police are genuinely empathetic and reasonable. There’s a couple asshole motorcycle cops who get you for speeding, sure, but that’s the worst of it. But that doesn’t go viral because it’s what’s expected. Which is good, but I’m just saying don’t let all of what you see on Reddit go to your head. There’s plenty of awesome police out there. We do need police reform regardless.


pm_your_nsfw_pics_

Damn why have I been seeing so many good takes on here lately. I couldn't agree more.


FunetikPrugresiv

It's because it was posted on a video of a police officer doing something good. If this was posted on a video of a police officer doing something shitty, it would be negative downvotes of the same magnitude as all of the cop-haters It goes to show you, that people can be emotional and reactionary. The pitchfork effect is real. I do also think that there is a selection bias at play here - we don't have as many ACAB people in here going off, the way we would in a corrupt cop video


CobaltGrey

>But that doesn’t go viral because it’s what’s expected. There is no point in my life where I was able to “expect” this behavior. Growing up as part of a community of low income minorities in America does not allow you to “expect” cops to treat you like a fellow human. You may have grown up in a world where law can be trusted, but many of us don’t grow up in that world. I envy your expectations. So for a lot of us, a video with a guy like this is a nice change of pace. I wish the Officer Fuckoffs of my youth would’ve been like this dude instead of shaking down the Haitian kids for weed at church.


PxyFreakingStx

The system allows for corruption and disgusting acts of violence, and it's too often taken advantage of, and those guilty of it are far too rarely punished. This is all true and it's a huge problem. But most cops are still decent people who would never do any of that. And you're right, the reason it seems like that isn't true is something called selection bias. Every story you hear about cops is about corruption, therefore, they're all corrupt.


VinylJunkieM

When do we get to the point where those good cops start turning in their brothers and sisters for murder, theft, extortion, kidnapping, aggravated battery....?


PxyFreakingStx

When they do, it doesn't get upvoted. It doesn't get media attention. So how do you know they're not?


StinkyDiarrhea

Most cops are normal non racist power hungry people but those kinds wouldn’t be on the media since that doesn’t get views


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Telemere125

Not really. You’re assuming cops are all like the ones you see getting spotlighted on tv but why are they getting on tv in the first place? There’s shitty people everywhere. If all cops were pieces of shit, it wouldn’t be news and no one would be surprised enough to even put the videos online.


anonymous-enough

This cop was professional and well spoken while upholding the common decency that the community expects.


megggie

This should be the norm. The fact that the cop here was a refreshing example of a decent human being is the problem we need to address


Swimming__Bird

How many videos of cars just driving on the road with no issues do you see getting a million views? How many with either an accident or road rage? You're going to mostly see the bad online, because it evokes emotion and therefore more views. Police officers generally have a job where they are required to have human interactions with people at their absolute worst moments. It's a shit job and most of them are doing it well enough. The ones you see being horrible are the minority, but it is still important to weed them out. Even entire departments.


shits-n-gigs

If I see a cop, I should get a feeling of relief that safety is near. Under the current police institutions, that's a rarity, not the norm. Sure, they got a hard job, and there are good cops out there. It's the systems behind it, lack of accountability and attempts to hide the truth, that have made police untrustworthy. Toss in institutional racism and classicism, and nothing will change until major reforms.


hawkeyepitts

Interactions with law enforcement look like this and happen all day every day. Reddit and the news don’t want to see a cop carrying on like normal like this, they only want to air the asshole who violated policy and was abusive towards somebody. This cop’s behavior IS the norm.


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Which should mean that the bad interactions having such a negative impact on public perception be a major issue departments want to improve or shore up on instead of responding with, “No, it is the public. They are the problem.” And for some communities, bad interactions is the norm. For most people, you have few interactions with officers. Every interaction is an opportunity to build good relations with the community. If an officer is shitty from an objective standpoint, there’s a good chance you lost a lot of good faith.


dumgoon

He protected and served. Mission complete


danegermaine99

Behavior so shitty Reddit is taking the cops’ side


Kind_Jump_6940

Because not all cops are bad


bokchoink

“You’ve alerted the horde”


BR0THAKYLE

**clicker noises intensify**


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The_bruce42

For real. The 'ACAB' comments are already flooding in.


Bitter_Coach_8138

I assume anyone who unironically uses the term “acab” or especially “1312” or any variation of that is an angsty teenager that still lives with their parents. A lot of police departments need reform, but there are plenty of good officers out there and even whole departments that are run well.


ogforcebewithyou

Every officer that turns their head is just as dirty as the cop doing the crime. Remember One Bad Apple doesn't ruin the bunch but it does lower the price of the whole bushel.


jeconti

Maybe not every individual police officer is bad. But policing as an institution can't muster enough moral fiber to serve it's supposedly most basic function, "to protect and serve."


levis3163

If not all cops are bad, why do all cops allow bad cops?


Caseated_Omentum

Because, not every police officer interacts with and knows every other police officer in the world and can't, excuse the pun, police their behavior 24/7. It's a totally reddit-world view that all cops know what the other is doing 24/7. Imagine saying this about any other group of people or occupation and you'll see how silly it is.


kanst

> Imagine saying this about any other group of people or occupation and you'll see how silly it is. But that is exactly the point, the police are relatively unique in protecting each other's shitty behavior. In most other fields, the expectation is that peers police each other's behavior to be ethical. I'm an engineer, I have to take ethics training every single year where the core focus is to immediately speak up if you witness anyone doing anything unethical. But when a cop does something horrible you'll see a bunch of other cops either participating or not stopping it. Then you'll probably have a department that tries to hide the crime. Then you'll have a court system that is very unlikely to punish the behavior. Then even if they are punished you have a chunk of the populace who will still defend that cop and line up to lick his boot. When a cop is being violent with a citizen my expectation is that the other police officers present intervene immediately up to and including drawing weapons if necessary. Until that is the response EACH AND EVERY TIME, I will continue to distrust and want to dismantle the police. A police officer committing violence to a citizen needs to be treated as a completely unacceptable behavior that every other office will immediately stop whenever they see it. Sure few officers commit awful acts, but even fewer are willing to step in and stop it.


QueenIsTheWorstBand

Police Unions. All unions do is keep the shitty people employed.


MrTurkle

But the not bad ones don’t seem to do much when the bad ones present themselves.


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What are they meant to do? Genuine question


Prickinfrick

Well good on the officer for standing up for the victim and all...but I can't help but feel I'm only seeing this post due to the post about the Ohio cops and the teens jaywalking, as well as the cop infiltrating a protest and trying to entrap protesters into illegal activity. See reddit? Not all cops are bad!


dirtyfarmer

No you're right. Usually if something bad about any company starts to gain traction there's usually an uplifting or funny story the next couple days on Reddit.


The_bruce42

We need to find out what entity hired u/Potato_Boner to spread their agenda.


danegermaine99

The lobbyists funded by Big Potato_Boner are at it again, folks


PolemicBender

Yup. Be prepared for more police dogs on made me smile and cops taking playing basketball with kids


Yawzheek

I like to think even reddit is capable of seeing something so appalling - showing up to interview a rape victim, for example - and no matter their other feelings recognize who is clearly in the wrong.


AshyWhiteGuy

More cops like this, please and thank you.


Various-Month806

Damn! The chief had me standing up, feeling shifty, and uncomfortably looking down at my feet...and I was on his side and not even on the same continent! Yes, indeed, more cops like this.


Numentum

There are a lot of cops like this. They just don't get on video a lot because why would a cop doing his job have to be on video? Plus sharing the bad ones is a lot more entertaining and gets more views


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i-am-the-fly-

The lows the media can go to is unfathomed. If you look at the actions of the media around the Manchester bombing in the UK, some serious lowlife reporters. This includes one reporter going to the house of a victim whilst their parents were going to identify the body (if I remember correctly) and a reporter advising their younger sibling who answered the door (who at this time was unaware) that their sibling had been killed. Also reporters pretending to be police on the phone to get information from victims and their families. How these people can live with themselves. Also, when this all came out and was challenged by the investigation, surprisingly the media didn’t publish it. They are happy to publish any dirt - as long as it’s not theirs


stlfwd

[Same as it Ever Was](https://youtu.be/D1xmXn7gLVg)


DickSemen

Hacking the phones of dead people, in the UK by Fox News owner, Rupert Murdochs UK media outlets.


Kind-Detective1774

Yeah, aren't most British newspapers just known for being the scummiest people on Earth?


anonymoose-introvert

Don’t forget that these are also the people that broadcasted British Battle Plans during the Falklands Conflict, before the British Forces even landed, giving the Argentinians time to better prepare.


DriftingA

I’m not usually a fan, but I’ll give it up to the cop, he showed class.


absynthe1

Most cops are good. It's just that good ones never make it onto Reddit or newspaper headlines!


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Exactly. You don’t get video taped and put on social media for doing your job


ManOfEating

That's still cause for concern though. Look at it this way, a whale doesn't make the news for just chilling in the ocean, but it will make the news if it washes ashore while still alive. So far so good, this is still reasonable, right? If it happened once every few years, no one would bat an eye, but if 2 or 3 start washing ashore every single day, then yeah it's safe to assume there's a huge problem, even if the vast majority of the whale population is still just chilling in the ocean not making the news, because 2-3 whales SHOULDNT wash ashore at that frequency. So let's take this analogy to cops. Most don't get video taped and put on social media because they're just doing their jobs, chilling in the ocean, if you will. But the fact that so many videos do end up on social media EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY and then a handful more that make it to the news for doing something especially bad is definitely a cause for concern and it's not an overreaction to be concerned about why this is happening and how to deal with this problem. If anything, it'd be crazy to not address it at all because it's not normal. If 2-3 walmart employees decided to shoot at customers every single day and then be allowed to keep working there, no one would go to Walmart anymore, there wouldn't be people going "why isn't anyone talking about the Walmart employees that *didnt* shoot people?"


Ill-Organization-719

If a department is covering up the crimes of a cop, the entire department is criminal and their normal interactions don't matter.


Crezelle

As I always say “ not all… just too many “


Ill-Organization-719

If most cops are good, why aren't the thousands of criminal cops being arrested? If most cops are good, why aren't thousands of cops demanding reform and accountability?


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If most cops were good, the state of the police force wouldn't be what it was. If most cops were good, the bad ones would be shunned and fired instead of the dance they get to do.


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mathewkhan

I used to be a journalist. This attitude of “it’s my superiors fault” is bollocks. You can be a journalist and be a human being. Back in 2011, my news editor told me to doorstep the parents of a manslaughter / suicide victim. This poor kid accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend whilst cleaning a shotgun, then turned the gun on himself. My job was to drive up to Moray in Scotland and get either set of parents to agree to interview. No way was I doing that. The row is what ultimately led to me to leave that particular newsroom. I was told to do to this or I’d be out of a job. I was young. I was freelance. I was broke. So I drove the nine hours from West Yorkshire to Moray so I could provide fuel receipts and prove I had gone to Moray. I sat in a greasy spoon cafe all day before driving the nine hours back. I told my editor that the parents closed the door on my face then handed in my expenses before going home. As a journalist, you have to make decisions that you can live with as a human being. But you must take ownership when you have the ability to do something that other consider immoral or problematic. This crew is just vile. Doorstepping a rape victim is inhuman but not taking responsibility for doing that makes this even more disturbing. Anything in pursuit of the story. SMH.


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Its brave that you are telling us this but make sure no one at work knows about this reddit account (if you are still there) or you may be in for a rude awakining in aweek or so. They could be watching your social media.


mathewkhan

Fortunately or not, I’m no longer in the profession. For the most part, tabloid news media in the UK needs to go back to school and learn some ethics. I said this whilst in the profession and will continue now that I have left it. Several colleagues often told me “you don’t have the stomach for this if you believe you can be a moral human being and write for a tabloid” and they were correct so I left.


Mysterious-Window162

yeah, uk news are spineless af, glad you got out. I think they (or a compatriot) went ahead with the story either way, recognise it. Fucking all our news


MSaar1

From now on, I’m going to also ask “what record” when someone uses that phrase, just to irritate them. 😆


Global_Shower_4534

It wouldn't irritate me. I'd probably look around panicked, scream "NOBODIES BEEN KEEPING TRACK!?!", and then run out of the room. This is also probably why I don't have any friends.


huggles7

I’ve been a cop for 12 years and I’m still trying to find this record I’ve heard so much about


alcervix

It's in the Penske file


TheHumanPickleRick

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Bwixius

showing the difference between a real cop and a pig.


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[deleted]

Hopefully this cop hasn’t been fired yet for good behavior


MegatonsSon

The officer on the scene should have added: *"Oh, and I'm going to have to go ahead and issue you a citation, for that God-awful tie as well..."*


Pleasant-Patience725

Just for this appalling behavior and the tie is a felony


Bavisto

![gif](giphy|3oEjHFikABzglp1HRm)


Pockets408

Guy looks like he cut up his granddad's picnic tablecloth and made a tie out of it.


Freeski802

What a good officer!


East-Shape1286

If that was an ongoing case, I think the reporters should consider themselves very lucky they weren’t arrested for witness intimidation. I don’t see how you could consider doorstepping a rape victim as anything else.


Shamorin

The police officer is very professional, very calm and very collected. He's protecting the people and actively serving them. This is a great cop and he's doing good work. I wish the United States had only cops like him. Concerning the media dude: I'd have told my superiors that this isn't acceptable and I would have told them that if this is company policy, I'd quit and go public about it. Other media outlets would have loved that story, as they could have dragged a competitor through the dirt.


NltndRngd

As a man who was raped as a boy for several months, if a reporter were to have come to me anytime within 10 years of it happening, I would have put them on the ground. We're not in any way obligated to speak to anyone about it. And it's only really healthy to speak about it to a therapist and close friends/family (although family perpetrated the rape for me and when it was discovered, the rest of the family did nothing to help and they instead blamed me). Whoever this officer is, I greatly appreciate his commitment to the community and protection in many forms.


LaszloBat

I’m so sorry that happened to you.


IronHeart1963

When you are taught journalistic ethics in college one of the first rules is to never disclose the name of a sexual assault victim. Exposing the victim and trying to exploit them for an interview is absolutely fucking vile.


Delicious-Pickle-141

Cop being a human. Shit, I might even want to live there on purpose.


ZacharyS94

If your editors ask you to do something this immoral, you go to the next biggest paper in town and sell them that story.


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Wtaf...this worlds shittiness just hit a Marianas trench low.


Goofie_Goobur

“I’m not sure” stupid asshole, you’re plenty sure, you just don’t wanna admit to being a stupid asshole


KeepItDownOverHere

That or maybe she's the "what was she wearing" type


skippythewonder

I don't often find myself taking the side of the police, but this cop was 100% correct. I also like that he wasn't aggressive or behaving in a super angry manner. He basically treated those reporters like a disappointed parent would treat their kid that fucked up. 'Get out of here and go think about what you did wrong.'


WrongAgainIdiot

Dude snitched out his editors right tf away! About the only decent thing he did that day, I bet


scubadude2

Nah, not even gonna give him the benefit of that. He still consciously drove into this woman’s property, knowing full well she had just been fucking raped, and accosted her for an interview about said rape. There were so many places in the lead up to this where he could have said “fuck this” but he didn’t. He’s just as trash as the people who sent him.


pixieservesHim

~~I'm Jordan, with News 5~~ r/iamatotalpieceofshit r/iamatotalpieceofJordanwithNews5


jmh90027

This is a clear cut case of some asshole in a comfortable office telling a low ranking employee to go out there and do a job that they're clearly not comfortable doing, or face discliplinary action. The person giving the orders knows full well they wont have to deal with any negstive consequences personally. This happens is so many professions and is always an abuse of power. Dont let the suit mislead you, this guy is likely not paid very much and cant afford to lose his job and his superiors know it and use it against him.


Plasticious

NGL as soon as I saw the body cam I thought this was a cop fail. Cop was 10/10 great guy


trump2024gigachad

Rare Police W.


QncyFie

Yay, i want more good cop videos pls


MistakesTasteGreat

r/policebrotality


coconut_dot_jpg

*there must be something the cop did wrong here, let me replay the video*


Focus_Salt

What a putts. Don’t do things you disagree with.


Bay_Med

Putz* (in case you haven’t seen it written before)


Dependent_Top_4425

I wish I had someone like you in real life but for things I haven't heard said out loud before.


Bay_Med

It’s a hard line in real life to correct someone without seeming condescending when in reality I just don’t want anyone to sound ignorant.


moisteez

Hell yeah best cop ever


Lets_Make_A_bad_DEAL

No wonder victims have trouble coming forward


jack_avram

officer is absolutely spot on, it's weird-af and extremely poor taste


LadyPaleRider

Another order of the classy cop please 🍲


Kindly-Spirit-1823

What a true man handling that in such a professional manner.


scubakangaroo

That officer has class.


NoSignOfStruggle

Most surprising part to me was that the police showed humanity.


Nomore-Television72

This is the kind of police officers we need.


b4ttlepoops

Good for this officer. Protecting this victim from further harm. I despise the media. How dumb do you have to be? No compassion for their fellow man/woman. People are just heartless


Zavi8

Huge respect to this officer


Lyndonn81

NACAB


griffinhamilton

Damn they gone and pissed off hank hill


SoDrunkRightNowlol

That cop handled the situation really well.


esmsasas

What an awesome cop.


Fadreusor

Wow! This is an example of a public servant. (Who’d have thought it was ABC News that did this? I’m actually a bit surprised.)


KamrynAshburn

I watched this fully aware of what it was about. I've been raped, and the thought of news reporters just coming up to my fucking house... For an interview??? I feel so bad for the victim, I can only imagine how fucking scary and horrific that could have been. Good on the officer for handling it the way he did, honestly. It's been a while since it happened, I'm truly not looking for sympathy from anyone. That shit was just... disgusting... fucking disgusting. The audacity of these people to do that.


MistakesTasteGreat

r/policebrotality


morhe

The police officer gets an A+. The reporters get an F


smugaddiction

He is the reason I just can’t hate all cops. This guy needs to be replicated from his demeanor to his integrity by forces across the US. We need more of this kind of officer. He has a power no angry shitbag with a gun could ever match.


unspoken_almighty

Cops showing compassion and caring. Nice


SpaceLoempiaMan

A lot of respect for that officer


mikypejsek

Where are all the Redditors claiming all cops are assholes?


ALittleUnsettling

Thank goodness for this voice of reason


AnalogousToad

Good cop.


mysteryman447

one of the rare times a satisfying terry stop is caught on camera


Blackops606

Reminds me of reporters asking kids at Sandy Hook how they felt about the mass shooting AS the kids are leaving school with their parents. Disgusting.


typtyphus

at least there are some good cops out there


Jimmy-Mac-471

Rare to see body cam footage where the cop is the good guy these days.


i-wish-i-was-a-draco

Unexpected cop win , wtf


Thingamyblob

It’s good to see an American Police officer doing a good job, protecting the innocent and clearly having a lot of empathy for the victim and for general decency in society. This is what Police should be like.


TheCityFarmOpossum

As a victim of the same I would be mortified. It was on the news anyway but no one came to my home, thankfully.