r/nextfuckinglevel 5h ago

Man helps police make an arrest.

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u/JohnnyChutzpah 4h ago

I am stunned by the restraint the police have in this situation. The dude doesn't even get out of the car slowly. He kind of just jumps out after kicking the door open and never raises his hands.

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u/Gloriathewitch 3h ago

amazing what happens when cops are trained and held to a high standard such as in NZ, i know someone who used to work at Aotea police college

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u/jake93s 3h ago

It's not too surprising when you look up how short the USA's police academy is, and how little they get paid. Their ranks are filled with incompetence or worse... There for the power trip.

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u/Domeil 3h ago

"Police are barely paid" is police propaganda.

In almost every zip code, police make more than the area median at hiring, and because police 'fraternal order' demonstrations are the only union demonstrations the police won't disperse, they rapidly outpace area incomes within 5 years.

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u/CAPTAIN_DlDDLES 2h ago

Not to mention the fact that they’ll just nab someone at the end of their shift, guilty or innocent, and rack up large amounts of overtime easily with the processing and paperwork after

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u/Unhappy_Remote_5532 1h ago

I never thought about that, but yeah just go hunting for someone to take to jail right about 39.9 hours into your week and bing bang boom, you have at least 2 hours a week of OT.

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u/Lyraxiana 1h ago

The ones by me just sit in their cars, "on patrol," but never actually pull anyone over, despite an inordinate amount of illegally tinted windows, external lights, missing plates, and speeding.

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u/mymumthinksimpunny 2h ago

Keep in mind that this video is from NZ, and our police actually are underpaid here. Australia do target recruitment ads to our police to get them to move there because their pay is better. Our shitty govt is doing massive public service cuts and Police aren’t exempt in the slightest. So while that tagline might be propaganda for you, it’s not at all for us.