• TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    I see a lot of people in this thread justifying murder when that’s REALLY not what’s needed. That will just lead to the only people willing to be cops is maniacs with a gun (who are NOT in short supply) when we really need cops who can take a moment and think.

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      28 days ago

      when we really need cops who can take a moment and think.

      Those people are actively filtered out by police.

    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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      28 days ago

      We need to murder the concept of cops as we know them today. That’s the only murder we need. No individual’s death will fix a fucked up system, gotta kill the system itself.

      • Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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        28 days ago

        I wish. There was that one cop was put away for defending a woman from SA a year after snitching on his fellow officers. His laywer said never heard of jail time for 1st time misdominer. They literally put him in a cell with a known cop killer. Who said naa this is one of the good ones.

            • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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              28 days ago

              Can you think in anything more nuanced than anecdotes and sweeping generalizations? Got anything better than a strawman to respond with?

              • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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                27 days ago

                Why would I think of something better than a strawman when replying to a strawman?

                As I said in another post: Cops protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, colonialist, patriarchal state by enacting violence on the ruled class. That’s not a judgement: it’s their purpose in the system.

                Individuals with bully-like personalities self-select into that job, while decent people are actively shunned. Because group cohesion is more important than “doing the right thing”.

                Why do you defend cops so much?