Police Dancing in Public

Police officers are tasked to protect our communities by utilizing available resources to detect and prevent crime. Because they’re employed by our municipal, federal, or some regional governments, cops have to deal with the challenges of bureaucracy to maintain law and order for us in a very public way.

The majority of police act with selflessness, integrity and professionalism in an often thankless line of work. But, there are instances of law enforcement acting in a way that is abusive, illegal and harmful to the public good.

However, there is another less egregious, yet disturbing behavior trending among uniformed police that is rarely talked about…Police officers, dancing in public.

Here we will highlight some common places where you will see uniformed officers , dancing in public. To most people, this may seem like harmless acts of “community engagement”, but the real danger is the influence it could have in ultimately spreading to other parts of our essential service, such as…

Politicians dancing in the halls of government…

Judges, doing the chicken dance on the bench...

Or…

Doctors and nurses linking up for a Texas line dance while performing an operation…

Carllrac Presents: Police Dancing in Public

In traffic

We often see cops at traffic stops and intersections dancing to entertain and liven up motorists. Inevitably, as most North American drivers are already on their phones and driving at the same time, they will record and share the video of the officer directing the intersection and doing the Robot dance at the same time, and send it to the local evening news.

A 2016 study conducted by the Port Tax federation of Port Anal, British Columbia, highlighted that infrastructure was in such poor condition in North American cities, that traffic cops had to be instructed to dance at intersections by municipal governments in an effort to distract tax payers from the apparent dilapidation of public works.

At carnivals and parades.

We frequently see police officers engaging with party goers and revelers at carnivals, parades, and concerts. This is often spun by police leadership as an effort to engage with the diverse community and create a sense of inclusion or warmth between the police and different groups. Some of these officers get caught up in the spirit of the festivities, which exposes them to criticism for getting paid to party instead of using the resources to fight crime in other, less affluent parts of a town. Don’t be surprised if you see a cop at your local cultural fair, shaking their ass to a mesmerizing percussive beat.

Sporting events

You’ll often see law enforcement officers working a sporting event, then winding up on the highlight reel of a sports show.

It’s unfortunate that the most entertaining part of an sporting event like a baseball game happens to be from an out of shape police officer swigging vodka from a flask in his boot after every check swing, then doing the macarena on the mid field warning track.

It should be incumbent on the sports teams and event organizers to provide better entertainment between innings, because sports fans pay top dollar to spend money watching grown men swing a stick at a ball. Fans deserve something better to watch, like a greyhound dog versus a pan am games - 100 meter gold medalist.

Revolutions and coups

It’s not uncommon to see police officers celebrate the ousting of a government. There is an irony in their excitement. After all, these police officers' main job was to uphold and protect the laws of their nation. Ultimately, we see them on a foreign news service celebrating their job failure and incompetence by firing a machine gun indiscriminately in the air over a crowd full of other revelutionaries.

Social Media Content

On a warm an fuzzy note. We’re seeing a lot of on duty police officers going to school proms. Typically with a high school girl that can’t seem to get a date, or was heartbroken and humiliated somehow.

The scenario usually has something to do with a guy from her computer sciences class being too scared to ask her out, and choosing to spend his Saturday evening playing Fortnite, with some of his middle aged video game “bros”.

With her confidence shattered, the girl's Mother tells her Dad, who happens to be a cop, to arrest the boy on a bogus vandalism charge. But, since it’s a weekend and no one really has the time to make up a story to frame a 17 year old kid, the Cop Dad, uses police resources and overtime hours to arrange for a 6 car police escort for his daughter. When the Dad asks his little girl for her first dance, there isn’t one dry eye in the school gym. The moment is then shared by 40 million people on various social media platforms.

As for Billy, the boy who wanted to spend the evening playing video games instead of asking out the girl from computer class? Well, it turns out a burglar breaks into his home, stealing his super expensive, MSI MEG Aegis Ti5 gaming computer, and packing it up using his Mom’s, COACH city tote bag. Unfortunately, due to a police shortage that evening the emergency response time was delayed, and the burglar was never caught.

Reality television talent shows.

A trend of police officers going on talent shows as part of a dance troop. Gone are the days when off duty law enforcement would meet up at a cop bar after their shift, or have a few beers in the garage of a fellow officer.

Now, we increasingly see law enforcement personnel getting together in community halls to choreograph intricate dance routines for the purpose of getting on a nationally televised talent competition, which may allow them to achieve greatness. Or, at the very least, a free week in Vegas, and a chance to meet a pop musician who was well renowned in the early 2000’s

Gangs

With police resources so thin in some jurisdictions, coupled with increased poverty and discrimination in communities, we are starting to see an uptick in gang membership amongst free form moving, talented youth. They are taking over our local parks, back alleys, and A&W parking lots with their dance circles. Beat cops have been seen around the nation, battling for their figurative lives while outnumbered by breakdancing youth gang members. These cops must blow the jam circle away, not with firearms… but with their sick tricks and power moves, like the top rocks, down rocks, and freezes.

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