Are police officers social workers?
Unnecessary interaction with authorities
This post pandemic has increased government overreach in daily life. This story is based on my own interactions. I wish I was making this up but I am not. I am just noticing a trend which isn’t healthy for a free society. When I am in the NYC/Jersey City area I can’t help but go back to my ‘‘night crawler status! I ride the PATH train 3-4am in the morning. At that time the wait can be 30-36 minutes! If you sit what happens…. you can close your eyes. If you put music on to vibe, I close my eyes to escape my surroundings.
However, post pandemic time period the ‘‘Port Authority’’ is using there police force as carrot not a stick! The police are quite invasive and they should not be. They are quite aggressive with this social I care about you tactic!. Is this the new policing? I for one do not want this to continue because the police are not trained for this heightened level of social interaction.
When you are out at 3am you are coming from a job you probably do not like or you are coming from a night out! If you coming from a night out that person maybe slightly ‘‘biz-zooted’’ and the last thing that is needed is interaction with the police. That can go left real quick by the slip of the tongue! You are also putting up with the terrible service after you paid for it.
You are minding your business but now you must put up with this behavior. Now let’s be honest who wants to talk to the ‘‘Po Po’’. So now let me give the scenario….I just missed the train and I am just sitting there. I close my eyes and apparently the person watching the camera feels I am sleeping. That person then communicates with cops. The cops come up to me and says are you ok? I just look at him and said why wouldn’t I be? I am just sitting here waiting for the train minding my business. He stumbles slightly due to my response and say the person on camera saw me quote unquote sleeping. I said my eyes are closed but I am aware of my surroundings. Then he says people can’t sleep here. I said I have to wait for the train and I had a long day. I told him this is harassment by the Port Authority! Then he says we have to make sure you are ok. I said why wouldn’t I be ok. I said I am just tired from a long day is there something wrong with that. I said tell your camera person they can’t jump to conclusions because things can just happen for no reason. I said what if you were having a bad day or I had a bad day then this could have become combustible. Then we are somewhere else. You will probably win because of the radio, gun and badge. I told him this is a terrible policy!
Police officers are not trained to be social workers, yet they are being forced in this ‘‘nanny state’’ of compliance we are existing in now. I told him most officers do not have the skill set to do what just happened. We are witnessing the enhancement of the subtle police state/national security apparatus that now many have become accustomed to since 9/11. Cameras everywhere. You can no longer come out of your home and mind your business without being monitored under the guys of safety. It is just another encroachment upon your person. More and more bureaucracy.
The police have a thankless job more and more I will say. They get the short end of the stick. The point of being an adult is being lost now. The term are you ok if your eyes are closed is an encroachment of telling me how to behave. If I am not ok what will you do for me? Call an ambulance? After the pandemic the psychosis in society is that something is always wrong with you. We are a sick society! The medical nanny state has been launched! This is the ‘‘communistic government enhancement policy’’. It all just creeps and creeps. Inch by inch covering your life. The authorities do not care about you.
You have the military industrial complex, the pharmaceutical complex and now the hospitalization complex aka call an ambulance. It seems that through all of this Port Authority has forgotten I paid for the service! I am a customer not a user! What happened to take care of the customer? What happened to the customer experience?
At some point these government /pseudo private/public organizations need a wake up call. I wish folks would just boycott these systems for 72 hours to make the authorities wake up to the fact that they are providing a service that we are paying for. They need to realize just who is the key to this equation! There is definitely a spreading disconnect in our society.
This increasing ‘‘nanny state’’ or better put government over reach needs to cease and desist. Interacting with police is a wild card because they are human beings with all of the human conditions. Humans are perplexing creatures. You can never know what you will get and that is why I do not want this interaction by the police.
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Disclaimer: Absolutely no A.I used all H.I
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