Saturday Snippet - video, not written, but still criminal

 

Earlier this week I thanked Greg Ellifritz for choosing my memoir of prison ministry, "Walls, Wire, Bars and Souls", as one of his best reads of 2023.

He says of it:

This [book] is great for providing an understanding of the criminal mindset as described by stories experienced by a prison chaplain.

That's one of the reasons I wrote it, to illustrate what we're dealing with as far as the mindset of professional (?) thugs and criminals goes.  They're a breed apart, and can be very frightening when you run into them for the first time.  Cops, of course, deal with them all the time, as do corrections officers (and prison chaplains) . . . more's the pity.

Yesterday, via MeWe, I came across a link to an 8m.25s. video on Twitter (or X, or whatever it is these days).  It shows in graphic detail what cops have to put up with these days when dealing with hardened criminals.  Note how the perpetrator knows exactly what "politically correct" phrases to say, and when to say them;  how to act out his "feelings" at being unable to breathe;  and how to essentially dare the cops to take stronger action against him, because he knows that if the ever-present cameras catch even one unprofessional incident, he can use it to get out of jail free due to "police brutality".

Is it any wonder that so many cops and corrections officers are leaving their profession?  They can't win.  The pro-criminal, anti-law-and-order crowd have teams of trainers going around our big left-wing cities teaching crooks how to behave so as to score points like that.  They get loud and in-your-face, intimidating the cops and medics, because they know they're bulletproof as far as left-wing, progressive DA's are concerned.

I strongly urge you to take the time to watch that video in full.  Adjust the sound so you can hear what's being said.  Study the histrionics and the careful acting.  It's all a con game, nothing less.  I assure you, I could resolve that man's problems in less than ten seconds if I were allowed to . . . but in this day and age, I won't be allowed to.  Instead, we're all plagued by assholes like that getting out on the street again, and doing precisely the same thing again, and washing, rinsing and repeating ad nauseam.

I rather suspect that as things get worse, more and more criminals are going to be picked up bleeding, possibly shot, rather than held for the arrival of the cops.  They've made it so that the easier option is the deadlier one - and if there are no witnesses to the easier option, so much the better.

Peter