I find it sad and hilarious they use the phrase "Just a few bad apples" forgetting the original phrase is "A few bad apples spoil the entire barrel."

Ill never forget when, in my mid 20s.. im jogging at night and a cop flashes his lights, stops right in front of me. "Hey pal, whatcha doin?"... im in my running shorts, with an ipod.. he saw what i was doing. "Jogging" i say. He snaps..."You being SMART with me?" My stomch drops right thru the floor... for the next 3 minutes im defending my tone of voice as he tries everything he can to escalate this... and im like "officer, i swear to you... ill swear on anything you want... im not being smart with you... my voice just sounds like this". He then gets a call on his radio and had to go... tells me i got lucky before he leaves. I wanted to puke. That was the moment that broke my trust of law enforcement forever... and i have cops in my family. All it takes is one cop on a power trip to ruin your life forever. And im convinced that if i werent white.. this cop wouldve shot me.

39:52 Bear in mind, the Police Union is NOT a union. It's classified as a Fraternal Order, legally, on its own website. They bust other unions; they aren't union-friendly.

This is why I always say we have a legal system, instead of a justice system. Justice has very little to do with it.

The largest, legally armed, gang in America: the Police.

when the older protestor was shoved and bleeding from the head, one cop begins to try and check on him but is quickly dissuaded from doing so by a fellow officer and gets back in formation. the system does not care and is working as intended

Expecting police in the USA to think before doing anything is a joke. They are the bottom of the barrel. I've watched a guy barely finish high school, fail out of college, get kicked out of fire fighting because he wasn't smart enough to pass their exams, and then become a cop. Within a year he was on a full blown power trip and everyone cheered him on.

Here's the best reason why it's not hard to be pro-union and anti-police union; cops aren't workers, they're enforcers of state violence, more akin to organized crime than an organization of working people.

Breanna Taylor's murderer not only wasn't held accountable, he got a promotion

Cops have massive immunity to consequences because they are the ones who will violently enforce the whims of the rich from the will of the rest of us. That's it.

"Just following orders"... If only there was some international Criminal case law around that phrase

22:30 I love this phrase and its mischaracterization. "one bad apple" gets thrown around like its not a big deal, but if you have a barrel of apples and one of them is bad, the whole barrel of apples rapidly rots. If you werent proactive about throwing out the one, you have to throw them all out.

I wanna talk about "civil forfeiture" aka all a cop has to say is "I think this _____ was obtained illegally" whether it's cash or a car or whatever and they can just take your property. Chances are you will NEVER get it back.

I can answer your question about the military. Soldiers can and are held accountable for their actions, even if ordered to do so by a superior officer. A soldier has the right and duty to disobey an unethical or illegal order under the military code of conduct.

It should be against the law to serve warrants at the wrong locations. It should be an immediate termination regardless of ranks.

I really don't understand why we hold the cops and politicians to a LOWER standard of behavior than we do to children or criminals.

Qualified immunity and so many other “not responsible for damage or death “ laws need to be fixed. It’s on me if a cop drives his city issued cruiser thru my house? How is that officer not responsible for his actions???

I had a "dirty cop" indict me on explicitly false charges and, despite the evidence demonstrating such being strong and obvious, it was some other lies that got him fired... He paid no real cost for his crime against me ... Because of course he didn't.

Adam becoming a force opposed to settler-colonial capitalist patriarchy is the best thing ever

I feel like cops aren't protecting people. They're protecting property and businesses

somewhere there's an alternate universe where Adam Conover never got fired and those poor bastards don't get to enjoy feral Adam Conover and i feel bad for them

can't help but think of that time the cop threatened to murder me and leave my body where no one would ever find it and literally nothing ever happened about it.

I live in a state that ended qualified immunity. The response is they do not even do their jobs now. They get paid and do not ever show up. Had a break-in? They’ll give you a report number for insurance. Have a murderer held at gun point? They won’t show up. Attempted car jacking? Nope, they don’t come at all. A 72 yr old just survived a car jacking and they left him waiting for four hours. This force was already under a consent decree.

The way I see it, the main difference between police unions and other unions is what they defend them for. Teachers, nurses, doctors, firefighters, all have unions and they also have a responsibility for other people's lives. If someone in one of those unions decided the best way to deal with someone unruly was to kill them they can be sued. While their union might still give whatever representation is contractually obligated, the union wouldn't actively show their support for it. People like to pretend the police have a similar sense of responsibility. Which is ridiculous since the supreme court has not only decided that they don't have any responsibility to help people, they also decided to make it so they can't be held accountable when they literally murder people. This shows that the government only sees the police as a force for violence. The police union exists only to promote their existence as a force of violence. That's why police unions aren't like other unions and shouldn't exist. They don't exist to make things better for cops. They exist to make sure the violence is allowed to continue. ACAB

I am a citizen of Clear Creek County, Colorado. We had a killing of a citizen, Christian Glass, by the sheriff's department recently. The county actually did take away funding from the sheriff's department as a result. It has had a good, chilling effect on the sheriffs. Unfortunately, as the local dog shelter is a part of the sheriff's department, the sheriff completely defunded the dog shelter to gain back most of his funds. This lead to many citizens being mad at the county government for defunding a beloved service, instead of the sheriff, who actually did the defunding. Making cops pay for their malfeasance is a good thing. At the same time, they will fight back with everything they have.

what's the difference between LEOs and CEOs? LEOs get paid vacations for ending innocent lives. when CEOs end innocent lives they just get paid.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ― John F. Kennedy, 13 March 1962

Love these videos but they also make my blood pressure spike

Regarding "One bad apple", rotting apples release acetone which causes all the other apples near it to also rot.

Had a professor recommend Joanna’s work for an advocacy project about policing. If anyone has access to scholarly work I highly recommend her law reviews as well as Shielded!

All power, no responsibilities. Its so wrong.

always hilarious to me the people who "back the blue" are also the ones who rant tirelessly against "oppressive government"

I was dismissed from a jury because I stated that statistically and historically that law enforcement officers were more prone to giving false testimony than most plaintiffs. They dismissed me and one other guy who both cited the statistics supporting that. That is bias from the courts.

A conservative thinks that the system is flawed but is pretty great and just needs tweaked. A liberal thinks that the system is broken and needs to be fixed. A leftist understands that the system is working as intended and needs to be destroyed.

The problem with suing the city rather than the officer is We the People then have to pay the bill. Officers who flagrantly abuse the powers We the People have entrusted them with need to be dealt with. Bad Actions = CONSEQUENCES no matter who you are.

Slavery was never abolished. It was just rebranded, as prison labor, "public service sentencing", apprenticeships, internships, subminimum wage jobs, outsourcing, trainee positions, volunteering, student workers and probationary work.

I've been pulled over for "looking Mexican", too dark of tint on a car without tint, and many many times for my car "looking to nice for someone so young". I've been randomly searched on the street for "looking like I'm up to something". I've been charged with a crime with zero evidence (luckily it was thrown out by the judge). I've been harassed by one officer in multiple jurisdictions. There is no accountability. Yet when I was the victim of a financial crime nobody was charged though there was ample evidence (and a paper trail). When I was the victim of an assault by multiple people only one was charged and I've never received any restitution. I have a judgement against an employer who didn't pay me, but the Sheriff's office wouldn't execute it. The judge wouldn't enforce it either. There's no service for the taxes we pay to support them.

blanket immunity for anybody is such a bad thing for society, it boggles my mind that it actually exists. talk about free reign as a person in a position of power, to do whatever you want. im sure that wont lead to corruption.

You know that great quote from Uncle Ben. “ with great power comes great immunity “

The more I hear about the supreme court, the more I think that it's a terrible system and we should just abolish it and replace it with some other way to make rulings on law. They're supposed to just interpret the law, but they twist the original wording and apply precedent inconsistently so much that they're basically legislating from the bench. The point of having them serve for life is supposed to make them unbiased, but they clearly have an agenda anyway, and the rules that are supposed to make them not be influenced by politics just make them unaccountable.

An interesting proposal I've heard as a way to help hold cops accountable is to require that police departments have insurance to cover these kinds of things so that officers who rack up too many claims become a liability. I don't know how something like that could even happen but it's definitely interesting to think about.

When I lived in south Florida, my downstairs neighbors were in an abusive toxic relationship. Many nights were we awoken to screaming, stomping, shouting, objects being thrown, and doors slammed. (It felt like all the time) the "man" in the relationship, much like the lady, had major anger issues and mixed that with heavy drinking. The sheriff's officers were there a lot. I will never forget after one very violent night, one of the officers giving the lady advice. "Let him sleep it off somewhere else and talk to him tomorrow." They never arrested him or her, just kept telling them to try and work it out. I'm no relationship counselor, and I know that's some of the worst advice to give. I hope they found peace. Cops are not meant for that, and their "advice" should be kept to themselves.

Police unions are antithetical to the goals of the labor movment because the interests of the police are those of the state and the owning class, which are opposed to the goals of organized labor. Having a police union as part of the labor movement represents a conflict of interest. To that end, police unions rarely if ever act in solidarity with other unions and they frequently support causes and leaders that oppose organized labor. I hope that clarifies things for you, Adam.

Utah made a law that you can't sue any government entity in Utah, unless the state gives you permission to sue the state itself, which they don't approve.

Did you know that here in czech republic we get 20 firearm related deaths per year? That's 2/yr/1M people. In the usa is police alone responsible for 3!

For anyone saying “just making a mistake and you get fired is too much!” Yeah, except when your job is about protecting people’s lives. I’m a therapist. There are lots of things that if I don’t do them, will harm people and make me lose my license - I.e, not just be fired, but unable to do my career field ever again and open me up to being sued. I’m sorry, but I have no empathy around this point. I’m not carrying a gun and I’m held to waaay higher standards. Grow tf up.

Just an FYI, the state as defined by max Weber doesn't have a monopoly on the use of violence, it has a monopoly on the legitimatized use of violence. In essence, he was talking about how the state has a monopoly on the court system that allows the state to valorize some forms of violence, while demonizing other forms of violence. This is what makes the state so powerful, as the ability to use the court system for one's own ends is always defined in the favor of the powerful. Interestingly enough in the case of Steven donziger, you can start to see how it's all a game of smoke and mirrors, as how even in the case of the court system being successfully used against the powerful, they have enough backdoors and workarounds to make both the functional and aspirational arguments for using the court system against the powerful counterproductive. And even if that wasn't the case, even if these institutions could be used against the ruling class, there is enough functional history to show that the continued development of these institutions will lead to the suppression of the median person. Structural authority never connects to structural liberty, never will the two ever meet. Police abolition is both the empirical and emotional argument at this point after uvalde.

Police "unions" aren't organized labor, they're mafia

In the U.S., we live in a culture of Domination. Police are the enforcers. SCOTUS is basically saying, the risk is too great to allow the police to be bound by laws. What is the risk? Lose of power and control. Their biggest fear is that people will actually control their government.

"We have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong."

What bothers me is that these lawmen don't seem to understand that when the law is so far removed from justice, the social contract breaks down. This makes people desperate and they will reach towards violence. Disproportionate violence. It baffles me that the US doesn't understand this simple principle. You know what happens to policemen in my country that do that? Their lives are ruined.

As someone who grew up on Police Procedurals that taught us the guilty one is the suspect who calls the lawyer, I love this topic already.

Delivery drivers are statically in more danger than police.

It pains me to say that, but one of the laws I agree in my country is that is illegal to Armed forces to unioniza. First of all, when armed professionals go on strike, they're not just striking, that's a mutiny. And after 5 or 6 coups, Brazil is kinda tired. Not enough to demilitarize the cops, but still...

Thank you all for covering this! ❤❤❤

Adam with these quality conversations with excellent guests deserve to get millions of subscribers.

The old man in Buffalo was trying to give a pig his helmet back. One had been dropped, he picked it up and tried to give it back. The pig shoved him, then they stepped over and around him as he bled on the ground.

The thing that I hate about this discussion, and Adam does it here too, is that everyone who wants to get on board, recognizes there is a problem and wants it to change, claims they're willing to do their part to get it changed and brings up other examples where big changes happened to look to for examples (like slavery in this podcast), but then, despite acknowledging that slavery had to HAVE A CIVIL WAR to make those big changes happen, immediately dismisses the idea of committing to violence... You can't take violence off the negotiating table (especially against an organization that believes it has a monopoly on the right to commit violent acts) and expect them to listen to you. I'm not saying declare a civil war tomorrow and start executing police in the street, but if that's not on the table as a level of the negotiation that you're willing to commit to (backed up by the power to do so, which is gained through the number of people in the movement AND THE WILLINGNESS TO GET ON BOARD), the police will never have any incentive to listen to the changes you're going to ask for even if those changes would massively benefit them. Anytime the police see you saying you want change but aren't willing to commit to violence, all they see is a disorganized group that can never pose a threat to them or enact any sort of change. You have to at least be able to say "if it comes to that, if it's the very last option we're given and there's no avenue left to talk it out, I will be willing to take up arms with the rest of you" otherwise you're actively harming every possibility we can ever have to sort this mess out.

Have malpractice suits stopped people from becoming doctors? Have people stopped becoming nurses because they can be found responsible for gross negligence? So why shouldn't police be accountable?

Yup. My relative is a cop. They said that it's the police unions that shield cops from accountability.

Thank you adam for bringing this topic up ive been saying this for years but glad you are making your community more aware

The short answer: racism The long answer: racism with extra steps

They are really saying that "no one will want to be police officers" if they can be sued? The people afraid of being sued before they ever sign up are scared because THEY KNOW THEY WILL DO ILLEGAL SHIT on the job. yo would actually be excluding the bad actors.

Law & Order in the Jim Crow South would be a really f'd up show. "Guilty, 5 years or until death in the mines, whichever comes first." "What am I guilty of?" "Doesn't matter, we'll come up with something. Oh, and while you're in the mines we'll probably charge you with something else so we can keep you as free labor. Free for us, I mean."

Nothing happens to cops when they violate our rights because the system considers violating our rights to be the cops' job. Let's just be clear. Cops exist to oppress citizens in the service of our rulers. This is why rich people do whatever they want and nobody ever does anything about it. Like statistically speaking. This is why cops could just march into the woods in Atlanta, perform an extrajudicial execution on an unarmed man, and nothing will happen to them. Look into the private prison system and how many prisoners are enslaved by companies like McDonald's, Microsoft, IBM, Walmart, and more.

in the case with the old man who hit his head, he wasnt protesting, he was trying to return a helmet that one of the officers dropped and they were so in cop mode that they just pushed him aside and that was enough force that he fell, then when one of the cops tried to help him the rest yelled "leave him" and just stepped over him. he wasnt protesting, he wasnt causing a problem he was just simply just trying to return a helmet thats what makes it so bad, he was just trying to be nice.

Only the unjust would ever worry about "too much justice."

At least in part is because they are gangs that have been elevated to deities by many. Also because if they are held accountable they lose their jobs, the cities have to pay out millions in settlements or court awards, and mostly because even good cops protect bad cops because they are gang mentalities.

When doctors were misplacing tools, operating on the wrong people, and otherwise doing horrible malpractice, they started instituting stuff like procedural checklists and making sure anyone could speak up if they had concerns (rather than the surgeons bullying the assistants into silence). Of course, they only did that because when they failed, they got sued up the wazoo.

The worst incident of this police being immune from their actions is when, once again, they were at the wrong house. The police fired a flash-bang grenade into the house which landed in a baby's crib (maybe a toddler?) which caused the child lifelong disfigurements and future disabilities. They also did extensive damage to the house. The family got nothing. I'm not sure there was even an apology from any of the officers.

People who say "just one bad apple" to defend the rest always forget the second half: "spoils the bunch". And then the 'bad apple' is almost never removed.

The system REWARDS the mis-treatment of the vulnerable. These officers, judges, etc., need to show they are "effective" at their jobs in order to maintain their power. The vulnerable, the weak, the societally disadvantaged, are all THE EASIEST TARGETS to do that. Once somebody realized this, it was almost a foregone conclusion that, legislatively and practically, this mode of operation would be reinforced and supported by those in power. Then it is never addressed as a matter of justice by subsequent generations of officers, judges, etc., because WHY? It works well for THEM. And every so often they have to sacrifice one of their number to the masses. In the final calculation, thats absolutely worth it. And you're talking about a mindset that easily de-humanizes entire segments of society. They won't feel a single twinge over throwing one of their number to the wolves. All they have to do is make a little show of regret and give lip service to the rule of law and then walk away to continue the system.

Funny how the cops never "accidentally" bust into one of those good ol' boy with a huge gun collections' house and get into a firefight, it's always some poor shlub in his boxers watching netflix with a bag of doritos and some kids crying in the next room.

Fantastic discussion, it really goes to show how ingrained our current oppressive systems are. And in fact it's because of this inertia that we need to focus on fostering the alternatives to policing instead of trying to reform the existing system. Reforming the police is a sisyphean task--it's a horrible uphill battle, and when you make progress you have to keep spending energy making sure politicians don't reverse it back. Instead we need to create community initiatives to address public safety, and we need to convince local governments to fund and otherwise support those initiatives. As a personal anecdote, I grew up in a violent neighborhood--it was not uncommon to hear gunshots at night, and to this day I will never forget the various street-side memorials made over the years for kids who died because of a simple neighborhood disagreement. And it was this neighborhood that was completely transformed by a grassroots effort to clean it up (both literally and figuratively). My parents started talking to our neighbors about these huge problems, and over the course of mere months they formed a volunteer community association that brought everyone together. They had events to clean up trash off the sidewalks, they had social gatherings like cookouts, they prevented crime by simply having a friendly face on the street to talk to and to de-escalate confrontations. It WORKED. After operating for a bit they even reached out to the local police force to support the initiative, where they agreed--as a community--on times where they DID want an armed officer patrolling and warding off the more violent offenders. And soon after that, we even had the mayor visit and publicly support the community initiative! It was transformative to have an actual positive relationship with the police and with government. But I can't stress this enough, the vast majority of the change happened from neighbors simply coming together and helping each other out. It took time, but within the space of a couple years the violent crime disappeared, litter was eliminated, and children were free to play outside without worry. We need more of that!!

Exclude everyone who has never had a negative interaction with the police from the jury pool!

If there are too many bad apples, the tree is rotten.

Should police have unions? Yes. But their municipal contracts should require that the union carries general liability and malpractice insurance to cover the damage the massive liabilities that police misbehavior causes. Brutal policing equals higher general liability insurance charges coming directly out of cops pay. Maybe they'd begin to police their own better if it cost them not to. Those contracts should also require them to be local residents. That alone would cut down on abuse.

Add to this discussion our for-profit prison system and the fact that convicts have a nearly impossible feat of getting hired for a job; and the "system" is even worse.

I personally know folk who were straight up shot by police, and nothing was done.

Almost like the state always has a class character and the police are not there to serve any concept like order or justice but instead crack down on any and all attempts to change things

When the bad apples are killers... saying there is just one bad apple 🍎 on the police force, is like saying there's just one serial killer in the orchard. I'd sooner burn the orchard to the ground than go apple picking! So maybe we need to re-think how policeing is done in America.

With regards to why this is still happening more than 100 years after Reconstruction: It is worth noting that, because Supreme Court Justice is a lifetime appointment, we are only six Justices removed from Reconstruction (Stephen Field Johnson, served 1861-December 1897; Joseph McKenna, served January 1898-1925; James Clark McReynolds, 1914-1941; Hugo Black, 1937-1971; Byron White, 1962-1993; and Clarence Thomas, 1991 and still serving). With all but the first two Justices, those tenures all overlap by as many as nine years. Really drives home why the Court is so conservative with regard to the changing times.

Judges who sign off on these no-knock raids to the wrong address should be held accountable as well. Side note - @Adam I'd love for you to cover Civil Forfeiture.

Unfun fact: the cop who murdered Daniel Shaver, while he was on his knees begging for his life, is getting $2500/month disability for the PTSD he developed after murdering Daniel Shaver

If the people charged with enforcing the rules aren't held accountable to those rules, then the rules are unethical. Unethical rules need to be ignored or changed.

How do you NOT see the police as the arm of the state when they are wearing uniforms of the state, carrying orders issued by the state, being paid by the state to enforce the laws of the state? How is anything they do an exception to the constraints of the constitution? In what world can they be seen as independent actors not part of a system? They are by definition, elements of a system! And the Court arguing that allowing people to sue the police would overburden the system with lawsuits points to the system's approval of their behavior. The argument is the answer. This is systemic and it would overwhelm the system to address it!

I was collateral damage in a police chase in Vallejo California. They chased a person who stole a car into me. Totalled my car and gave me severe brain damage. The insurance company barely covered the car, and the Solano courts wouldn't respond to any of my emails letters or calls. Was unable to find a lawyer to take my case. Might have to do with this happening right when the pandemic started. Either way what I learned was that in California there's a law that the police are not responsible for any damages if they cause in the pursuit of their duty ? Long story short i ended up losing everything and becoming homeless as a result.

My god not only have the apples gone bad, they've turned them into cider and now are drunk off the power.

The union bargaining for less transparency allows them to just steal what they are not making in overtime while they sit their playing candy crush in their car...or stealing drugs, or protecting drug dealers...etc

Settlements for police misconduct should be paid from the police pension fund not by tax payers. That may give them an incentive to clear out those "bad apples" vs hide them behind the blue wall.

Consistently excellent conversations on this channel, love it. Super glad to have found it! 👌

"me and my buddies investigated what me and my buddies did and we found out we did nothing wrong"

As per your assumption at the beginning of the episode regarding the military, I can assure you that the US military does not have any doctrine, or protections in the vein of qualified immunity. Quite the opposite actually. We have a obligation to refuse any order that we know or reasonably believe to be illegal and if we go through with the order we are culpable for any repercussions that arise from the fallout. So for example if we're ordered to fire on unarmed civilians we are duty bound to disobey that order. If we do it and an investigation finds out we shot unarmed non-combatants then the officer who issued that order will face the strongest punishment but everyone who pulled the trigger will received judicial punishment up to and often including a bad conduct discharge and incarceration in a military prison. The deal cops have is unique to them. Edit: I could fix police misconduct: every settlement from lawsuits against officers comes out of their pensions. So if officer itchy trigger harms someone all of his officers are on the hook for the millions. The problem will sort itself out.

I blame Police Administration for not training police officers correctly. My father was a police officer for 30 years and never shot anyone. He was trained in negotiations, psychology, hand to hand combat, and to disarm perps versus shooting them. Dad was a sharpshooter too with many trophies from decades of contests, but he only owned a 38 special. He used that gun as a psychological tool instead of a weapon. I trained in self defense, martial arts, and learned disarming techniques because my police officer father wanted me to be safe lol. Now, I wear a light jacket, a t-shirt, and a tank top. Why? Because clothing is a great way to shield yourself, wrap it around a weapon, and get control of the weapon. Trying to fight a weapon with another weapon is when it gets dangerous, which is what modern police forgets. Taking away a small amount of police funding to put that into mental health centers and professionals that go out into the field w/the police to help with encounters with individuals in a mental health crisis would be a small price to pay if we can save a lot of lives. I've been a bouncer, had a bunch of weapons pulled on me, and never had to use deadly force. 90% of the time I could talk them out of it. Like hey, if you leave right now, I won't call the cops. After that, if they wanted to fight me, I'd disarm them, detain them, and turn them over to the police. Its not necessary to kill someone. If someone was very aggressive with a firearm, using pepper spray quickly a short distance from their face as a distraction, I'll pull the gun out of their hand/s, drop the bullets, and then drop the gun. Its not hard. We have too many police officers that are former military and they are treating Americans like their enemy in combat. That's not cool. Its like we're living in a police state.

USA has been militarising the various polices forces for many years which has to be affecting their sense of invincibility.

I support the Defund the Police movements because I believe that the current system of policing is ineffective, unjust and harmful to many communities. For example, studies have shown that the police disproportionately target and harass people of color, immigrants, homeless people and LGBTQ+ people. The police also often use excessive force and violence against peaceful protesters, journalists and bystanders. Moreover, the police fail to prevent or solve many crimes, especially those involving sexual assault, domestic violence and hate crimes. I think that instead of spending billions of dollars on militarizing and expanding the police force, we should invest in social services, education, health care and community-based alternatives that can address the root causes of crime and violence. For instance, we could fund mental health counselors, drug treatment programs, housing assistance, restorative justice initiatives and community mediators. I do not want to abolish the police entirely, but I want to reduce their role and power in society and hold them accountable for their actions. I think that by defunding the police, we can create a safer and more equitable society for everyone. PS: ACAB ✊

Qualified immunity is based on an interpretation of law, it's not set in stone. It can be undone.

My grandfather once had the police called on him for firing a pellet gun to scare squirrels away from our pecan tree. They were told he was firing a firearm, not a pellet gun that couldn't even kill a squirrel at point blank range. They were actually quite reasonable aside from one VERY green new officer that put his hand on his sidearm and ordered me to take my hands out of my pockets. I was wearing knit shorts that couldn't hold a bag of M&Ms without falling down, much less a weapon. Yeah, I'd say I had one event that makes me worry about how much power police have.

This is a case where George Carlin's "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!" goes for another group than rich people.

It's pretty indicative of the corruption in your policing system when my first thought at any new Adam Conover video is "I hope he and his guest aren't harassed/do survive after this."