Woman stops mistaken eviction attempt through her Ring camera

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A woman in Florida interrupted police who mistakenly began an eviction attempt that was meant for her neighbor -- -- by yelling at them through her Ring doorbell. https://cnn.it/3zAFkWi


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6:00 PM · Aug 5, 2022

Those arrogant assholes.

[SunSeeker]

1. Holy shit! She was lucky she caught them, and that they listened to her.

I need to get a ring camera.

[albacore]

2. Well... somebody has to say it, so it might as well be me....

I wonder about the outcome if she "sounded black"...

[rsdsharp]

3. If you listen to the full video, the cop apologizes and then says

“We’re gonna have to, uhhhh, you’re gonna have to fix your lock,” so it’s good they actually did it for her. She’s wrong about the dogs being in shelters, though. If they had barked at them if they got inside, the cops would have killed them. Officer safety, don’t ha know.

[Abolishinist]

4. You're right about the dogs barking, they'd be dead.

For the life of me, I don't understand this. Them getting the wrong address seems to be an everyday occurrence, how freakin' hard is it to get this right the first time? EVERY time this happens, the person responsible needs to be not only fired, but any pension they've built up is donated to the victims of their ignorance.

[rsdsharp]

5. I think the answer is pretty simple. Most police trade schools

excuse me — 🎼THE ACADEMY🎼 — won’t take an applicant whose entrance exam demonstrates an IQ above 104. They think those applicants who are smarter will get bored with the work, and quit. 104 is the UPPER limit. Most applicants are below that level; many well below. They want applicants who will do what they are told with questioning it, and without the mental acuity to question.

[Abolishinist]

6. I must say I hadn't heard of this before, thanks!

I checked a few sources and yeah, although not true in all states, it does seem to be common practice.

Also, there are studies that show a relationship between a higher level of education/IQ and police brutality, the higher the IQ, the less they are likely to use blunt force. They are also more open to making policy/procedural changes.

[rsdsharp]

8. It's really a perfect storm. You recruit people of low normal intelligence,

train them from day one that it’s “us versus them,” and drill into them that absolutely nothing is more important than officer safety. When they get out of the academy, they have qualified immunity. In most cases, there will be no civil consequences for their actions, and if there are, the taxpayers bear the burden, even those most of these guys are making 6 figures with, at best, a high school education.

In my state the training is only 16 weeks. Most of that involves physical training of various types, and weapons training. There is very little on the actual laws or Constitutional rights. Most of the class work is on investigative techniques, report writing and the like. There is one hour of ethics training. Not one credit hour; one hour period.

They are taught to lie and trick people into giving information — which the Supreme Court has held is legal. In every state you do not have to ID (traffic stops excepted) unless the have reasonable articulable suspicion you are, or about to be, involved in a crime. Many cops actually believe they can demand ID from anyone, at any time, for any reason. They think policy, or local ordinances trump the Constitution — a Constitution they swore to “protect and defend from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” A Constitution most have never even read.

Policing in this country is bad, and it’s getting worse.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Oh my god, his tone when he says "We have the wrong house." Like it could happen to anyone.

Evictions are violence. Here's hoping this bought her neighbor some time.