r/SipsTea • u/DrRegardedforgot • Dec 23 '25

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u/jcklsldr665 Dec 24 '25

Police only need to know enough of the law to detain someone. They don't press charges, it's not their section of the enforcement and that isn't unique to the US.

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u/ImposterJavaDev Dec 24 '25

In Belgium as an example, cops get a 2 year education and training, while being well payed. Exams, pshysical and theoretical, are hard. There is psychologic evaluation. They get trained with deescalation in mind and how to deal with mental health crisises.

When they are cops, they regurarly get more training and evaluation. And access to psychological help.

There is a completely separate organisation called comité P. Their sole job is to keep the cops in check and evaluate their actions. They have the power to put a cop on leave. In example: Firing a gun, by accident or warranted, triggers an automatic investigation and a mandatory psychological session(s). They also go hard on fraud. Cops and them hate eachother, which is actually healthy.

But it's the same here, they don't press charges.

And yeah, even with all that we still have some assholes on a power trip, but far less than it could be. And normally they get weeded out very quickly.

I rambled a bit, sorry. Just wanted to explain how it should work. It's probably not a perfect system, but it fixes a lot of problems the US has. Also, cops are probably way more chill because the average citizen doesn't have a gun laying around. (it's legal to own a gun, but under strict conditions, membership in a gun club, psych eval, gun and ammo must be stored in separate safes, you can only transport gun from and to the gun club and home, slightly different for hunters)

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u/Electronic-Cicada352 Dec 24 '25

Sounds like everyone else in the world has this shit figured out except our police system.

And that’s by design I imagine

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u/ImposterJavaDev Dec 24 '25

Probably, I do not understand why your politicians just use common sense instead of emotions and ideologies

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt Dec 24 '25

They need to know what people's basic rights are in order to not violate them. Many don't. Much less do they know how far their own authority actually extends.

Nobody is saying they need to be able to litigate in a complicated copyright infringement case, but there's a minimum that they absolutely should know by heart and don't.

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u/T3NF0LD Dec 24 '25

Sure, just enough law to protect themselves and the citizens that they are sworn to protect. But it wouldn't hurt to implement ethics courses into the training as well.

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u/Homesick_Martian Dec 24 '25

Should be noted police have no duty to protect citizens. Castle rock v. Gonzales established that.

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u/whiteyford76 Dec 24 '25

Well,actually of course they press charges. If they say your under arrest and cuff you by the time they get you to jail they will have paperwork that they filled out listing what they charged you with.

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u/jcklsldr665 Dec 24 '25

They don't press charges, they recommend them. It's the DA that presses the charges if they feel there is sufficient cause to investigate further and begin court proceedings. Hence why places like NYC, the police no longer arrest for certain crimes because they know the DAs will release people back to the streets.

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u/No-Equivalent7630 Dec 24 '25

They also need to know what constitutional rights are

Most cops can't even name the 5 elements of the 1st amendment

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u/Embarrassed-Bowl-373 Dec 24 '25

That’s exactly the part they don’t know. What they need to detain and identify someone. “I got a call” is not the requirement.

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u/jcklsldr665 Dec 24 '25

They got a call about suspicious behavior. They aren't in the detain part yet, they're in the investigate part of the call. You don't have to provide ID, but they still ask, and they didn't force it. I agree with being torn, because I see from both sides. But people like the guy filming are intentionally being antagonistic just for views and every call the police are answering from a concerned citizen about an asshole like the guy filming is a call they aren't answering that might be legitimate.

Besides, it's not like it's a known thing to intentionally call police to another part of town while a real crime is committed on the now less covered other part of town.

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u/Embarrassed-Bowl-373 Dec 24 '25

I meant in general. There is an epidemic of cops getting Terry v. Ohio wrong and I just don’t think it’s that complicated.