When you’ve worked it, then you will understand. The question as to why was answered. Don’t want to get moved on? Then leave when told.
Next time you’re working on a patient, I’m hoping the crowd starts to tell YOU what to do and how to do it. But please, since LE is “BS“ In their methods, don’t call us anymore to help you. We wouldn’t want to cause you angst. I’m more than happy to let some EMS crew figure it out than risk getting reported for using approved and legal tactics to help them, because, you know, jack booted thugs and all that.
"Don't want to get beaten and arrested for peacefully protesting in public? Then leave the public space when we tell you, even if you aren't doing anything wrong at all". Like it or not, that's what people hear when you say things like "Don't want to get moved on? Then leave when told".
I can not understand why you (and seemingly most other LEO's) take any suggestion that some things could or should be done differently so personally. I can't think of any other profession where criticizing any aspect of it or any specific members of it elicits such a vehement and emotional response. Pointing out that there are many problems with the healthcare system does not evoke passionate rebuttals from doctors. Condemning an obvious act of malpractice by an individual physician doesn't result in many other physicians blindly defending the act of malpractice and replying with some version of "If you don't like it, don't go to the doctor!" or "we don't write the protocols or the recommendations, we just carry them out!".
We can and often do talk about systemic problems with the military, the healthcare system, the pharmaceutical industry, fire departments, the legislatures, schools, the energy industry, the legal profession, and on and on. Everyone agrees that most institutions in our society can use a lot of work in at least some ways.
But policing? Nope. Completely off-limits to any type of criticism at all. Never mind the enormous power that police have over the very lives of the public; never mind the dire consequences that citizens suffer from mistakes and misjudgments made by police. Despite the importance of all that: NOT_ALLOWED_TO_QUESTION_EVER.
In one of your comments you referenced the importance of the Rule of Law. I agree with you that the Rule of Law is critical to a properly functioning society. The problem is that in order for that to work, people have to respect the law. In order for people to respect the law, the laws have to be reasonable, have a clear benefit to society, and infringe only minimally on individual liberty.
You can't just make any law you want and just shrug your shoulders and say "sorry, rule of law" when questioned. You can't enforce laws any way you want and say "sorry, just enforcing the rule of law" when questioned. I mean you can, but that's exactly how you get people to stop respecting the rule of law. That's how you generate momentum for fringe groups like BLM and Antifa and the boogaloo movement and the growing anarchist wing of the libertarian culture. It's also how you get confidence in police among average citizens falling nearly every year.
But by all means, go ahead and dismiss the critics as just entitled lefty brat millennials who never learned to respect authority. Double down on the same approach that got us here and we'll see how things go.
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