A friend of ours from Mexico (who passed away a few years ago) had an interesting take on what you’re saying above.
He was not a big fan of law-enforcement, & he was not a criminal. In having a discussion about the above with him, as he was teaching us some of the do’s and don’ts with respect to interactions with law-enforcement in his nation…he explained that the police were notoriously underfunded, & that a certain level of corruption was expected just so that they could remain police officers…but you had to know how to approach the situation diplomatically in order to function in that society.
He explained that many in the law enforcement profession in Mexico where the failures of society, in his opinion too dumb or antisocial to be waiters or other useful members of society, and they had to be treated with a certain level of deferment while stoking their egos and bribing them simultaneously, but in a non-obvious fashion.
Law enforcement in Mexico are not paid a living wage. Law enforcement in the US are paid better, but most have to have second jobs to pay their bills to the extent that there are rules about where they can and can’t wear their police uniforms at their second jobs (security guards, collection agents, etc…). Canadian police are comparatively paid much better I’m told, with six figure incomes within the first few years.
(This may, or may not, play a role in the above discussion, but it is interesting.)
Yes, I agree that it sure seems like there’s a lack of training (budgetary reasons?) or a lack of supervision (budgetary again?) but definitely some weirdness going on.
In the specific example of the shooting of Ms Young, 30 seconds before she is shot, both officers are breaking into a different parked car in the handicap parking area of the Kroger grocery store. Is this a side-gig that in Canada is relegated to tow truck operators…but in the US it might fall to Law Enforcement who legally can carry break in tools for automobiles? Is what happened a reaction to Ms Young interfering with the officers ‘side-gig’ to scoop a little extra on the side for popping open a car that someone locked themselves out of???
Below is a screenshot from YouTube from the bodycam of the officer that shot Ms Young about 30 seconds before he shot her through her windshield:
Interesting, and perhaps irrelevant, but still interesting. That’s a Lockout Airbag (locksmiths is them) to inflate in the gap between the door & the B-Pillar on an automobile so that further lockout tools can be used to pop the lock open.
if you could see through the windshield in the above picture on the car that the officers are breaking into, to the right of the blue car, is where Ms Young’s car is parked before the shit hit the fan.
He was not a big fan of law-enforcement, & he was not a criminal. In having a discussion about the above with him, as he was teaching us some of the do’s and don’ts with respect to interactions with law-enforcement in his nation…he explained that the police were notoriously underfunded, & that a certain level of corruption was expected just so that they could remain police officers…but you had to know how to approach the situation diplomatically in order to function in that society.
He explained that many in the law enforcement profession in Mexico where the failures of society, in his opinion too dumb or antisocial to be waiters or other useful members of society, and they had to be treated with a certain level of deferment while stoking their egos and bribing them simultaneously, but in a non-obvious fashion.
Law enforcement in Mexico are not paid a living wage. Law enforcement in the US are paid better, but most have to have second jobs to pay their bills to the extent that there are rules about where they can and can’t wear their police uniforms at their second jobs (security guards, collection agents, etc…). Canadian police are comparatively paid much better I’m told, with six figure incomes within the first few years.
(This may, or may not, play a role in the above discussion, but it is interesting.)
Yes, I agree that it sure seems like there’s a lack of training (budgetary reasons?) or a lack of supervision (budgetary again?) but definitely some weirdness going on.
In the specific example of the shooting of Ms Young, 30 seconds before she is shot, both officers are breaking into a different parked car in the handicap parking area of the Kroger grocery store. Is this a side-gig that in Canada is relegated to tow truck operators…but in the US it might fall to Law Enforcement who legally can carry break in tools for automobiles? Is what happened a reaction to Ms Young interfering with the officers ‘side-gig’ to scoop a little extra on the side for popping open a car that someone locked themselves out of???
Below is a screenshot from YouTube from the bodycam of the officer that shot Ms Young about 30 seconds before he shot her through her windshield:
Interesting, and perhaps irrelevant, but still interesting. That’s a Lockout Airbag (locksmiths is them) to inflate in the gap between the door & the B-Pillar on an automobile so that further lockout tools can be used to pop the lock open.
if you could see through the windshield in the above picture on the car that the officers are breaking into, to the right of the blue car, is where Ms Young’s car is parked before the shit hit the fan.
