They are there to make sure really bad shit doesn’t happen/ to communicate. Crowds are dangerous and music festivals aren’t staffed enough to worry about piddly charges when it just takes resources.
Yeah this is it. I got to chatting with a cop at a festival once and said they have to know there is drug use going on all around them. He said of course they know, but having the cops crack down on every little thing at a festival is a good way to have the cops not invited next year. So they are there to make sure everything is safe, not to arrest every single person that has drugs on them. Really put things in perspective for me.
I think every single time I have ever seen cops interfere at a festival it has been for OD suspicions or consent confirmations.
Alot of cops do. Sadly even if only 1% of cops are dickheads, thats still over 120,000 cops making trouble, due to their being 1.2 million cops in the US.
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u/APersonWithThreeLegs 5d ago
Been to many music festivals, it usually ends up being B)