Why we distrust police (and other uniformed authority)
This E.M.S. guy on this 911-show I’m watching was just saying how a patient he responded to was “involved in seizure activity.” Hot damn, where do I sign up for that?
I really hate when the police or other people in uniform get in front of the camera to be interviewed and try to sound as officious and articulate as possible, using as many multisyllabic padding words as can be (un)comfortably squeezed into a sentence, but end up crafting these head-scratchingly bizarre language clusterbombs that just makes them come off as complete douches.
Just speak like a normal person, for fuck’s sake. Don’t try and smart it up in front of the camera. It doesn’t just make you come across as unpersonable. It makes you look stupidly arrogant, like that kid in high school who keeps using big words because he thinks it makes him appear intelligent but he keeps using the wrong words or makes his own up. If every man was his own Word document, this was the guy who would Shift+F7 every word under two syllables.
This is why people distrust uniformed authority. It’s not just the abuse of power, the blind obedience or the arrogance. It’s because when you see them talk like this, the next time you find yourself in an argument with a copper, you just know you’re inches away from being arrested by a complete retard.
