To sum this video up, a traffic stop led to the arrest of a passenger who refused to identify herself because she wasn’t suspected of a crime. The cops insisted that everyone in the car is required to identify themselves. In the law, which cops are paid to enforce, passengers don’t have to identify themselves if they’re not suspected of a crime. (In some states you don’t have to identify yourself unless you’re under arrest.) This passenger was arrested by four cops in person while another supervisor offered advice over the phone.

Here is my proposition. That probably at least 80% of cops are bad. (In reality my estimate would be much closer to 100%, but that would be for reasons not pertaining to this discussion.)

1. If a cop lies about the law and arrests someone for a bogus reason, they’re a bad cop (or at least incompetent).

2. If a cop shows up and assists another cop in their bogus arrest, they are also a bad cop.

3. Even police supporters acknowledge that some fraction of cops are bad. Let’s call that fraction x.

4. The odds of 5 bad cops being in the same place and participating in a bad arrest with none of them knowing the law and calling for the bad cops to stop would be x to the power of 5.

If someone said 20% of cops are bad, they’re probably not a cop supporter as that’s a high percentage. But 0.2^5 = .00032. That is 0.03% odds that 5 bad cops would participate in the arrest of this woman.

I think if you took any 5 random cops from across the country and put them in this situation, probably only about 30% to 50% of the time would this woman have been arrested, but not because there would be at least one good cop showing up to tell the other 4 that this is an illegal arrest. But just because they are too lazy to arrest someone for this, they would let her go. But I’ll be conservative and say that only 30% of the time would this woman be arrested and it is because there’s at least one good cop. What does that mean for the percentage of bad cops?

The formula for that scenario is x^5 = 0.3. If you solve for x, that means that x = 10^(log(.3)/5), or x = 79%. So that means 79% of cops are bad and/or incompetent. Of course, you can do your own math and let me know what percentage of cops you think are bad. Of course, if you get too low of a number I can show you tons of other videos of groups of cops doing evil stuff with no good cops telling them to stop. The truth is that every paycheck the vast majority of police accept is fraudulent because they don’t actually know the law to any kind of minimum standard to be performing their duty. It’s just that most of the time, people would just hand their ID over as the back-seat passenger did in this traffic stop.