At this point, my first reaction to seeing anyone in law enforcement at any level is they are a criminal thugs that cannot be trusted, should be undermined at every opportunity, insulted relentlessly, and if necessary, worse. I know there are some good cops, and not everything they do is bad, but goddamn they do they suck in general.
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I heard this one recently: Take 100 gallons of dirty sewage water and add 1 gallon of clean water. What do you have? It's not 101 clean gallons of water or even 100 gallons dirty and 1 clean anymore..
You now have 101 gallons of dirty fucking sewage water.
ACAB (and soon to be ACAN ~ All Cops Are Nazis)
Works the other way too.
If I take 100 Gallons of clean water and dump a gallon of sewage into it, would you pour yourself a glass?
One bad apple spoils the bunch. Good point!
I get what you are saying, but that doesn't help the 1 good cop that is actually trying to do their job correctly.
Didn't help Christopher Dorner either.
The challenge today is that their legal job may now require them to do things that are constitutionally questionable and ethically repugnant. So even if they’re good people and upstanding citizens, they may be required to, at any point in their day, to choose between doing the right thing and losing their job.
They only have to choose wrong once to no longer be the “good cop”.
Now, because of the way policing works in the US, it may be possible to have an intrinsically good police department. At least until a state or federal agency rolls into town and demands they do something they wouldn’t otherwise do; then they become complicit.
After all… in any other organized gang, there can be good people, but they’re still going to be found guilty of gang activity due to supporting the others.
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Would you think the same in another country? In Canada? Or in The Netherlands?
I don’t have experience with either of those places but when I was in Rome, Italy it was plainly obvious that the 5 or 6 different kinds of cops, none of whom were helping people, are useless thugs and goons just like the Americans.
But was there a situation where they were needed? Or were they standing doing nothing because there was nothing?
I have known multiple firefighters which were happy most of the time to get the support from the cops to handle the situation.
The cops I have seen were always doing something even if it were just patrolling. You can call that useless, but at least they are outside and can be called.
Genuinely looks like the vigilante hacker from Watch_Dogs
Fascism
Next step beyond militarization...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/police-militarization
Mfs think they're in Watchmen, but it's Birth of a Nation instead.
Y'know, funny thing about masks like that, they're real absorbent and don't block much other than visibility and direct skin contact. Bet they'd be ripping then off real fast if they smelled something bad enough to puke.
is this because we're listening to all that damn "post-hardcore" music on the patios and at the parks in public?
You can’t tell if they are real behind a mask, the best option is to shoot first.
Alarming Number = 1 unless it is very cold or covid is hitting hard
Rip off their fucking masks
Take mask off patriot!