• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    Also gives insight in to the psychology of the group. Cops used to wear a mag or two on the side of back of the belt. Now I see them wearing four mags at a two o’clock position. Because now they think they’re going to get in gunfights and want 80rds on tap, ready to go, where they can easily reach them after dumping the mag loaded in the gun. That shows a significant shift in cop culture and practices and you wouldn’t know if you don’t pay attention to their kit and how they wear it.

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      2 days ago

      Damn, I hadn’t even thought to point out mag positioning, I am so acclimated now to seeing what you pointed out that I forgot it even ever used to be different.

      Yep, these guys are increasingly running ‘high speed, low drag’ loadouts…

      Meanwhil, what was it, less than a year ago we had that vid of … a fucking acorn falls onto the cruiser a cop is walking past, cop screams out in pain, does a bobby hill version of a combat roll, mag dumps into another parked cruiser with a detained suspect in it, shooting right past/near the other officer next to that other cruiser, with the ‘backstop’ for those rounds being a bunch of townhomes just 20/30 feet from the car?

      Jesus fuck what an embarrassment that video was.

      They’re all terrified bullies cosplaying as Judge Dredd, still haven’t figured out that the Punisher they idolize would be vigilante murdering every cop with a Punisher tat or decal if he existed irl, because the cops that idolize him are the very corrupt, inept idiots he hates.

      Bleck.