America's Cops Are Throwing a Sick COVID Temper Tantrum

[KG]

America’s Cops Are Throwing a Sick COVID Temper Tantrum
Kali Holloway
Mon, September 20, 2021, 4:59 AM

The coronavirus killed more police officers in America last year, 145, than the 135 who were killed on the job in 2019 by gunfire, heart attacks, car crashes and everything else combined.

This year, COVID-19 is on track to again be the leading cause of death for cops, though the still-climbing death toll could be significantly slowed by the vaccine, which is widely available, highly effective and, not for nothing, a solution the National Fraternal Order of Police asked their 350,000 members be given early access to back in January.

But cops around the country are not only refusing to wear masks where they’re required and when they’ve been ordered to, they’re also vocally opposing vaccine mandates—threatening walkouts, demanding exemptions on specious grounds, and, in many places, filing lawsuits. The grim reality that one out of every 500 people in the U.S. have died of COVID since the pandemic began isn’t apparently enough to motivate many police to get vaccinated.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-cops-throwing-sick-covid-085901405.html

cops: still amazed they aren't universally loved & respected, yet

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Maybe this will help

with weeding out the “bad apples”

[Phoenix61]

2. Beat me to it.

I think it’s an excellent way to weed out those who shouldn’t be cops in the first place. If they are too stupid to take one simple step to protect their own lives they sure as hell are too stupid to protect any one else’s.

[Mad_Machine76]

20. By refusing vaccines

they are potentially harming all of the people they interact with. It is scary that the "To Protect and Serve" people aren't concerned about protecting (although too many of them have always been rather selective about who they protect and serve).

[tanyev]

6. I suspect the Venn diagram of bad apples and vaccine refusers would have a very large overlap.

[Mad_Machine76]

19. Me as well

[mopinko]

7. there have been a lot of discussions here about mr darwin's laws

and whether or not these idiot's loss from the gene pool will have an impact. on every thread, someone does a little math and declares it wont.
i disagree in general, but this right here? it really could. between dying and getting fired, it could easily change individual stations.

there was a vid here in the last week or so w a guy who did an analysis of who was there on 1/6. his biggest take away was it was rednecks in blue areas. big cities.
the cops in chicago have always been rw'ers. there's a cop who has a blog that is as vile as anything at freeperville. or parlor. has a huge following.

i hope they quit in droves. but die works for me, too.

[Treefrog]

23. You have a good point.

[multigraincracker]

3. If they had this rule there wouldn't be more than half of the current cops.

If you don't follow rules, you can't wear a badge.

[Freddie]

4. Every cop and retired cop I know is a Trumper

The profession attracts authoritarian types. They’re only “following orders.” Let then die.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. More than that, they love to issue orders to people

Thus the love of forcing people to lie flat spread out on the ground, even in ridiculous circumstances and then to taze or arrest for "disobeying lawful orders" / "resisting arrest".

Like that deaf or autistic guy year or two ago tazed by the cops.

Like George Floyd's murderer.

Like so so many examples.

[Mad_Machine76]

21. Any order but this apparently

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. ....

[FakeNoose]

16. I suspect the difference is the police unions

[RAB910]

8. Easy- end "line of duty death" designation for any unvaccinated officer who dies of Covid

That would change a lot of thinking

[dsc]

9. The galling thing is that when it comes to any other risk from their job

they are all about eliminating it no matter the cost to the general public in terms of civilian shootings, but for this, which, it should be pointed out actually killed more cops last year than died in any other way on the job, they are don't bother.

[lark]

10. Way too many cops are freaking science denying, racist, hate filled right wingers.

Let them leave the police force, they are nothing but dangerous asses anyway, good riddance!

[PaulRevere08]

11. Not surprising. Another example of how policing has devolved from "To Protect and Serve"

to: civilians are the enemy and I get to do whatever I want without consequence. All this blue lives matter and holding them up as heroes and not civil servants reinforce this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Fire them. I expect those cops much more likely to lack empathy and to abuse / shoot more. . nt

[33taw]

13. There are other opportunities.

[Casady1]

15. Many cops

are total assholes. They always have been.

[Hotler]

17. Maybe they should not use body amour also. Less restriction on their freedum of movement.

and remember, never ever talk to the cops unless you have an attorney present.

[DallasNE]

22. So Much For "To Protect And To Serve" n/t