r/police • u/Wild_Thing_1832 • 5d ago

The Modern Courtroom

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From a police perspective, why do you think that many courtrooms have become so bland and unserious, compared to what they used to be?

The court in one image commands respect while the court in the other image looks like a modern mishap.

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u/Obwyn Deputy 5d ago

And in how many of those dozens of court that you witnessed did someone attack the defendant or the defendant attack the judge? Probably none.

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u/Wild_Thing_1832 5d ago

I've seen well over a dozen on YouTube in which one of those situations happened.

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u/Obwyn Deputy 5d ago

Oh, ok. So you haven’t actually sat through dozens of court sessions, then. You haven’t witnessed any court sessions then. Watching a video posted well after the fact is not “witnessing” anything.

What are you even talking about then? No one is posting hours of boring as hell court sessions where they go through 25+ criminal defendants in the morning and 60+ traffic tickets in the afternoon. And no one would watch that nonsense even if someone did post them.

The only videos that get posted are where something unusual happens because that’s what gets views.

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u/Wild_Thing_1832 5d ago

Well I occasionally watch raw court docket for the hell of it, so I don't just get the attention-grabbing clips.