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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Stereotyping of Police Officers in American Society' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Stereotyping of Police Officers in American Society' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-11. Transcript available.

A cop's job is to identify a crime, to take that person into custody, and to
take them to before a judge, and to have them processed for the crime.
They're not there to administer punishment.
I think that's where the problem with some cops get.
Some cops get so, some guy spits on your face, it's hard not to react.
Yeah.
I've had that.
My name's Brad White.
My name tag said B White.
When I worked in South Central, I had a guy actually come up to me, and we were
involved in a scenario where I was investigating a crime, and he noticed my
name tag, and he decided to go on a tangent about it.
I see how it fucking is, Officer B White.
He didn't even register with me, but I'm like, oh, shit.
No, my name's Brad, man.
My name's Brad, dude.
Right, you're missing the rad part.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude.
I actually got my name tag changed because of it.
I just didn't want to deal with that.
I'm sure.
Yeah, I just didn't want to deal with that again.
I'm sure, dude.
People want to go to bed at night and close their eyes and feel they're safe.
That's the only reason we all sleep at night, because we think there's people
out there that are keeping us safe.
That's a really good point, isn't it?
It is.
The second that the police are gone, somebody in your house is going to have to
be at your window.
Which is the craziest part of what's going on lately.
It's hard to watch.
I've escaped it.
Even after Rodney King, there was a push, and I'm down for the push.
I'm down for everything always getting better.
In any facet, we can get better.
We can do this better.
But this is a very complex job that you can't identify everything you're going
to come in contact with.
There's no way to be ready for everything that happens.
There's just no possible way in this job.
Right.
And a large portion of these things that you're coming in contact with are life
and death.
You know, they're brutal.
They're brutal.
Some of the best people I've ever met were cops.
Yeah.
Just really solid.
And we came from all different places.
Yeah, there is a lot of guys that you see, you know, like, they probably got
their ass kicked through high school and became cops.
But I found the majority of those guys, they were good dudes.
There was guys that weren't, you know, but within police departments,
especially now, they really police themselves and contain or get rid of those
people.
They don't want that either.
Police departments are staffed by people from the community.
They go through a hiring process and they get, we get everything.
And this is a good example of people judging the cops based on the actions of
one person or a dozen or so.
We actually, at my police department, had two different cops, one I worked with
forever, one I knew right off the bat, that were child molesters.
Damn.
That we found out they were child molesters.
Matter of fact, the one officer that we caught, the first one, he molested the
son of one of our other officers.
They were best friends.
So, again, you're talking about a situation where the world goes, we can't even
have one bad cop.
Well, fuck, we're with you on, you know.
Not we're with you, but we're also just piece of a piece of society.
We're dealing with it too.
Yeah.
You know, we're dealing with it too.
As soon as we find out that it's there, I mean, we, we, obviously this guy was
gone in prison and we, we handled that situation.
A lot of cops are just really solid, solid human beings.
And, and the world just recently, they tried to turn on them in their entirety.
They did exactly what they said that, that is happening to other people.
They completely stereotyped a million people.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Right, right.
They, yeah, it's like people saying, don't stereotype, but then we're going to
stereotype this huge group of people that are keeping us safe.
And now we're less safe than we've ever been.
Are we really?
I was going to ask you that.
Are we less safe than we've ever been?
Absolutely.
The whole idea of police work, when I started, the whole idea of police work in
its entirety was proactive policing, man.
Get out there and find crime before it occurs.
I want you to shake cars.
I want you to shake cars means pull them over, find out what's going on, find
out what they got stuff there.
I want you to frisk, tickle.
Yes, and there's a whole dynamic to that that's always in debate of like, oh,
he stopped me because of this, or he stopped me because of that, which is, it's
really not true, but it's too long of an explanation for that.
But the whole idea of police work was, is to find the crimes before they
occurred.
And now what has happened with what the demonizing of police and the way that
they have unfairly attacked them.
Like I said, the expectation is of, oh man, he only had a baseball bat and you
shot him.
Right.
You know, it's like, what are you talking about?
Like, this wasn't even a conversation that was stomped down back in the day.
That wasn't allowed to go very far because that's ridiculous.
Right.
But now guys are losing their jobs.
They're not just losing their jobs.
They're going to jail.
Now, literally, I still have my, a good friend of mine is, is the chief of the
police department that I worked at now.
And they're literally telling police officers, essentially, I only want you to
deal with what we have to deal with.
So cops aren't out there doing proactive policing anymore.
They're not out there actively looking for stuff because they're literally
scared that no matter what they do, the world's going to turn on them based on
a video clip.
The concerted push of demonizing a million people.
And we, we've never really, we have done that, but we don't really do that to
any other profession like we do cops.
I've had women that look like mothers completely lose their shit on me.
Wow.
Just over a ticket, just completely unreasonable, screaming, yelling, cussing.
Don't you got anything fucking better to do?
No, there's crimes going on.
Yeah.
And that's just such an ignorant statement to, you know, we have to enforce all
laws.
You know, there's reasons all laws are in place.
Most cops are, are cynical and callous.
And there's a fucking reason for it, man.
Because you spend 20, 30 years of going and dealing with the world shit every
single day.
You really start getting convinced.
World's fucked up, man.
This is a bad place.
This world to me, it's tough.
This world is ugly.
This world, you don't, like I said, you don't know what's behind those doors.
Cops every day get invited into people's homes uninvited.
Yeah.
You, you have never been in a home besides a party where people didn't want you
there.
We would go every day into people's home that didn't want us there and they had
no choice.
So every day we're walking into environments that normal people don't go into.
And is it weird, right?
When you walk in, like, where do you stand in the room?
That's what I always feel like.
Sometimes I'm looking at cops.
I'm like, it always seemed like, I don't know where, like, would I stand here?
Would I stand here?
It's, it's, there's so much training even in that aspect, as far as tactical
advantage and
how you stand, gun leg back, you know, always being.
They teach you what to watch.
I went to so many behavior analysis class, uh, courses where they would teach
you based
on the way people sit during interviews, if they're telling the truth or the
way someone's
acting when they're sitting of what could possibly occur next.
And everything's tactical.
Cops do everything for a reason.
Like they, 90% of the time they want to bring people out of their home because
that's their
environment.
We don't know what's in that environment.
We don't know what's behind that door.
We don't know what's under that couch cushion.
So they try to bring them into the most, um, safe environment that they pass
possibly can,
which is usually to bring them out of the house.
Everything a cop does on a call is all planned.
It's, it's all in training and there's all a process to it.
Yeah.
There's a lot, there's, there's a lot that people don't even, you know, there's
a lot
to it.
I think there's like a million cops in America.
There's a million people.
What we're talking about.
Let's, let's say a thousand of them are bad people.
A thousand of them.
Is it our duty?
Is it our job as police officers or would to, to identify those people and get
rid of them?
Absolutely.
And I got, I'm not here.
I'm not advocating for police.
I have no, there's no reason for me to.
Right.
Um, I'm being honest with you.
I'm not trying to say, oh, cops are this and that, but you need to be fair.
You need to be fair with cops.
You know, a thousand of them are bad.
Don't go into it with the thought process that you have.
Don't participate in what you're seeing.
You see people saying, you know, fuck the police or all cops are bad or defund
the cop, you know,
find a way to assist in that process of going, no, you know, that's not right.
These are, we need to identify individuals and we need to have, and people, the
argument
they'll have is go, well, we can't have, we can't have one bad cop.
You know what I mean?
There's too much power.
You know, we can't have one bad cop.
I agree, but it's also fucking impossible.
It's also fucking impossible.
Yeah.
It's totally unrealistic and especially a pressure to put on these people that
already have so
much pressure on them.
Yes.
And it's not really probably going to change anything.
It's just a bunch of battle cry bullshit that doesn't really, in the end, is it
really
changing anything, you know?
It's making us less safe.
I think if, if someone could put something together where they just, a cop just
came and
say, hey, this is, this is a story.
And people start hearing that every day and just going like, dude, the world,
the stuff
that's going on in the world right now, you know, the stuff that goes on every
day and
has always gone on is always is going to go on.
I think people would be a little more understanding of, of the difficulty of
the job, you know,
the difficulty of policing the world, you know, and maybe be a little more,
less judgmental,
you know, a little less harsh.
It's a tough life.
It's, it's a different life.
The world doesn't know what's going on out there.
You have no idea what's going on out there.
I do.
Yeah.
It's a hard reality to live with.
You guys are expected to handle so much.
Like some people are mentally unwell.
Somebody, somebody's got a gun.
Somebody's doing sex traffic and somebody's trying to hide a kid in their attic.
You know, it's like, you don't fucking know.
Nope.
And you never know what you're walking into either.
Many situations where you think it's one thing and it's something totally
different.
Cops are scared to do their job.
You know, they're just scared to do their job.
I can't even imagine.
Yeah.
The public doesn't understand, you know, when a guy comes, it's, it's difficult
to describe,
but it's life and death, you know, cops shouldn't have to die just because, you
know, the people
want the fight to be fair.
There is no fight here.
My job is to get him in custody and take him before magistrate.
That's it.
Right.
And I got to do what I got to do to get him in custody.
But if this guy's fighting me the way he is, he'll kill.
I have to, I have to think he'll kill me to get away.
I have no choice.
Yeah.
Especially if a guy that's already killed other people or done thing, you know,
it's like,
this is a bad guy.
It's not a good guy.
Yes.
Who's here on the ground.
It's like, this ain't a great guy.
Yes.
You know, this ain't a guy who's been doing great stuff or learning Spanish or
something
all day.
This is somebody who has, is been doing crime.
We just got to get through this and good will come of this.
Amen.
It's unfortunate, you know, but good will come of this.
Good came of Rodney King.
Great things came with the Rodney King incident.
It really, I saw it.
I lived it.
I watched the change.
Oh, absolutely.
When I first started, there was a lot of stuff that went on that slowly I
watched it get,
you know, when you're, when you're new, you just kind of stand back.
I watched it slowly get eliminated, slowly get better.
Things slowly improve on the way they handle stuff.
You know?
Yeah.
Um, it's, it's, it's, it's definitely getting better and, and, and it's, it's
going to get
better.
Policing is completely, totally necessary.
How we, how we do it is just going to continue to evolve.
Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch this
one.
You can watch this one, different options, different choices.
Some guy just brings you a one option, not this guy, two options.
Watch one, this one or this one.

The Stereotyping of Police Officers in American Society

A cop's job is to identify a crime, to take that person into custody, and to
take them to before a judge, and to have them processed for the crime.
They're not there to administer punishment.
I think that's where the problem with some cops get.
Some cops get so, some guy spits on your face, it's hard not to react.
Yeah.
I've had that.
My name's Brad White.
My name tag said B White.
When I worked in South Central, I had a guy actually come up to me, and we were
involved in a scenario where I was investigating a crime, and he noticed my
name tag, and he decided to go on a tangent about it.
I see how it fucking is, Officer B White.
He didn't even register with me, but I'm like, oh, shit.
No, my name's Brad, man.
My name's Brad, dude.
Right, you're missing the rad part.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude.
I actually got my name tag changed because of it.
I just didn't want to deal with that.
I'm sure.
Yeah, I just didn't want to deal with that again.
I'm sure, dude.
People want to go to bed at night and close their eyes and feel they're safe.
That's the only reason we all sleep at night, because we think there's people
out there that are keeping us safe.
That's a really good point, isn't it?
It is.
The second that the police are gone, somebody in your house is going to have to
be at your window.
Which is the craziest part of what's going on lately.
It's hard to watch.
I've escaped it.
Even after Rodney King, there was a push, and I'm down for the push.
I'm down for everything always getting better.
In any facet, we can get better.
We can do this better.
But this is a very complex job that you can't identify everything you're going
to come in contact with.
There's no way to be ready for everything that happens.
There's just no possible way in this job.
Right.
And a large portion of these things that you're coming in contact with are life
and death.
You know, they're brutal.
They're brutal.
Some of the best people I've ever met were cops.
Yeah.
Just really solid.
And we came from all different places.
Yeah, there is a lot of guys that you see, you know, like, they probably got
their ass kicked through high school and became cops.
But I found the majority of those guys, they were good dudes.
There was guys that weren't, you know, but within police departments,
especially now, they really police themselves and contain or get rid of those
people.
They don't want that either.
Police departments are staffed by people from the community.
They go through a hiring process and they get, we get everything.
And this is a good example of people judging the cops based on the actions of
one person or a dozen or so.
We actually, at my police department, had two different cops, one I worked with
forever, one I knew right off the bat, that were child molesters.
Damn.
That we found out they were child molesters.
Matter of fact, the one officer that we caught, the first one, he molested the
son of one of our other officers.
They were best friends.
So, again, you're talking about a situation where the world goes, we can't even
have one bad cop.
Well, fuck, we're with you on, you know.
Not we're with you, but we're also just piece of a piece of society.
We're dealing with it too.
Yeah.
You know, we're dealing with it too.
As soon as we find out that it's there, I mean, we, we, obviously this guy was
gone in prison and we, we handled that situation.
A lot of cops are just really solid, solid human beings.
And, and the world just recently, they tried to turn on them in their entirety.
They did exactly what they said that, that is happening to other people.
They completely stereotyped a million people.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Right, right.
They, yeah, it's like people saying, don't stereotype, but then we're going to
stereotype this huge group of people that are keeping us safe.
And now we're less safe than we've ever been.
Are we really?
I was going to ask you that.
Are we less safe than we've ever been?
Absolutely.
The whole idea of police work, when I started, the whole idea of police work in
its entirety was proactive policing, man.
Get out there and find crime before it occurs.
I want you to shake cars.
I want you to shake cars means pull them over, find out what's going on, find
out what they got stuff there.
I want you to frisk, tickle.
Yes, and there's a whole dynamic to that that's always in debate of like, oh,
he stopped me because of this, or he stopped me because of that, which is, it's
really not true, but it's too long of an explanation for that.
But the whole idea of police work was, is to find the crimes before they
occurred.
And now what has happened with what the demonizing of police and the way that
they have unfairly attacked them.
Like I said, the expectation is of, oh man, he only had a baseball bat and you
shot him.
Right.
You know, it's like, what are you talking about?
Like, this wasn't even a conversation that was stomped down back in the day.
That wasn't allowed to go very far because that's ridiculous.
Right.
But now guys are losing their jobs.
They're not just losing their jobs.
They're going to jail.
Now, literally, I still have my, a good friend of mine is, is the chief of the
police department that I worked at now.
And they're literally telling police officers, essentially, I only want you to
deal with what we have to deal with.
So cops aren't out there doing proactive policing anymore.
They're not out there actively looking for stuff because they're literally
scared that no matter what they do, the world's going to turn on them based on
a video clip.
The concerted push of demonizing a million people.
And we, we've never really, we have done that, but we don't really do that to
any other profession like we do cops.
I've had women that look like mothers completely lose their shit on me.
Wow.
Just over a ticket, just completely unreasonable, screaming, yelling, cussing.
Don't you got anything fucking better to do?
No, there's crimes going on.
Yeah.
And that's just such an ignorant statement to, you know, we have to enforce all
laws.
You know, there's reasons all laws are in place.
Most cops are, are cynical and callous.
And there's a fucking reason for it, man.
Because you spend 20, 30 years of going and dealing with the world shit every
single day.
You really start getting convinced.
World's fucked up, man.
This is a bad place.
This world to me, it's tough.
This world is ugly.
This world, you don't, like I said, you don't know what's behind those doors.
Cops every day get invited into people's homes uninvited.
Yeah.
You, you have never been in a home besides a party where people didn't want you
there.
We would go every day into people's home that didn't want us there and they had
no choice.
So every day we're walking into environments that normal people don't go into.
And is it weird, right?
When you walk in, like, where do you stand in the room?
That's what I always feel like.
Sometimes I'm looking at cops.
I'm like, it always seemed like, I don't know where, like, would I stand here?
Would I stand here?
It's, it's, there's so much training even in that aspect, as far as tactical
advantage and
how you stand, gun leg back, you know, always being.
They teach you what to watch.
I went to so many behavior analysis class, uh, courses where they would teach
you based
on the way people sit during interviews, if they're telling the truth or the
way someone's
acting when they're sitting of what could possibly occur next.
And everything's tactical.
Cops do everything for a reason.
Like they, 90% of the time they want to bring people out of their home because
that's their
environment.
We don't know what's in that environment.
We don't know what's behind that door.
We don't know what's under that couch cushion.
So they try to bring them into the most, um, safe environment that they pass
possibly can,
which is usually to bring them out of the house.
Everything a cop does on a call is all planned.
It's, it's all in training and there's all a process to it.
Yeah.
There's a lot, there's, there's a lot that people don't even, you know, there's
a lot
to it.
I think there's like a million cops in America.
There's a million people.
What we're talking about.
Let's, let's say a thousand of them are bad people.
A thousand of them.
Is it our duty?
Is it our job as police officers or would to, to identify those people and get
rid of them?
Absolutely.
And I got, I'm not here.
I'm not advocating for police.
I have no, there's no reason for me to.
Right.
Um, I'm being honest with you.
I'm not trying to say, oh, cops are this and that, but you need to be fair.
You need to be fair with cops.
You know, a thousand of them are bad.
Don't go into it with the thought process that you have.
Don't participate in what you're seeing.
You see people saying, you know, fuck the police or all cops are bad or defund
the cop, you know,
find a way to assist in that process of going, no, you know, that's not right.
These are, we need to identify individuals and we need to have, and people, the
argument
they'll have is go, well, we can't have, we can't have one bad cop.
You know what I mean?
There's too much power.
You know, we can't have one bad cop.
I agree, but it's also fucking impossible.
It's also fucking impossible.
Yeah.
It's totally unrealistic and especially a pressure to put on these people that
already have so
much pressure on them.
Yes.
And it's not really probably going to change anything.
It's just a bunch of battle cry bullshit that doesn't really, in the end, is it
really
changing anything, you know?
It's making us less safe.
I think if, if someone could put something together where they just, a cop just
came and
say, hey, this is, this is a story.
And people start hearing that every day and just going like, dude, the world,
the stuff
that's going on in the world right now, you know, the stuff that goes on every
day and
has always gone on is always is going to go on.
I think people would be a little more understanding of, of the difficulty of
the job, you know,
the difficulty of policing the world, you know, and maybe be a little more,
less judgmental,
you know, a little less harsh.
It's a tough life.
It's, it's a different life.
The world doesn't know what's going on out there.
You have no idea what's going on out there.
I do.
Yeah.
It's a hard reality to live with.
You guys are expected to handle so much.
Like some people are mentally unwell.
Somebody, somebody's got a gun.
Somebody's doing sex traffic and somebody's trying to hide a kid in their attic.
You know, it's like, you don't fucking know.
Nope.
And you never know what you're walking into either.
Many situations where you think it's one thing and it's something totally
different.
Cops are scared to do their job.
You know, they're just scared to do their job.
I can't even imagine.
Yeah.
The public doesn't understand, you know, when a guy comes, it's, it's difficult
to describe,
but it's life and death, you know, cops shouldn't have to die just because, you
know, the people
want the fight to be fair.
There is no fight here.
My job is to get him in custody and take him before magistrate.
That's it.
Right.
And I got to do what I got to do to get him in custody.
But if this guy's fighting me the way he is, he'll kill.
I have to, I have to think he'll kill me to get away.
I have no choice.
Yeah.
Especially if a guy that's already killed other people or done thing, you know,
it's like,
this is a bad guy.
It's not a good guy.
Yes.
Who's here on the ground.
It's like, this ain't a great guy.
Yes.
You know, this ain't a guy who's been doing great stuff or learning Spanish or
something
all day.
This is somebody who has, is been doing crime.
We just got to get through this and good will come of this.
Amen.
It's unfortunate, you know, but good will come of this.
Good came of Rodney King.
Great things came with the Rodney King incident.
It really, I saw it.
I lived it.
I watched the change.
Oh, absolutely.
When I first started, there was a lot of stuff that went on that