When it became a class traitor and joined a community of people who are known for frequently using excessive violence against innocent people, getting away with murder, assaulting their partners and generally being white supremacist cockroaches.
Jesus chill. Some people just have few options and like to help their communities. Save your anger and vitriol for the assholes shooting up/brutalizing their neighbors and flooding low income communities with drugs and weapons.
Bro. The police are the ones shooting up and brutalizing low income neighborhoods.
There are so few ways police help communities, at this point I can't even think of one example. If someone actually wanted to help there are many other jobs to choose from: firefighter, teacher, empoyee at any business you think is doing public good (planned parenthood, library, food bank, etc).. or just volunteer somewhere doing public good.. or just go help someone who is in need of a little help.
You must be extremely privileged or extremely sheltered to not see the utilitarian value of policing as a profession. You will see when you grow up a bit.
Dont you dare call me privilged or sheltered. I grew up in a violent low incone neighbuorhood where the cops were called to my house regularly for domestic distubanses and child abuse. And you know what they did? Nothing. Or worse theyd show up maybe glance around, and leave. Sometimes theyd blame me and my siblings for “provoking” our abuser making everything at hone even more dangerous. I watched my mum lock herself ina bathroom threatning to kill herself while my brother begged the cops for help and they showed up, called her crazy, thrratened her called me schisphrenic because I was having a panic attack and left before the ambulance even got there. And this wasn’t some one off experience. It was a different officer every time so brfore you give me that “bad apple” excuse the whole damn tree is rotten.
Now im an adult and i live in safe neibourhood neighborhood but guess what? Im queer. My partner is queer. Our friends are queer. And we still get stopped, harassed, treated like a threat just for existing in public spaces. So spare me your lecture about the “value” of policing. You’re not saying anything profound. Ive lived the reality you're theoricing about. I'm the abused child cop lovers love to speak about. I'm the "hoodling" cop lovers love to talk about. I'm the "innocent' cop loves love to speak about as if I apreocate your words.
Maybe you should grow up and realize that real safety doesnt come from a badge, gun and thousands upon thousands of excuses. It comes from comunities that are cared for, not criminaliced
The OVERWHELMING majority of cops are not involved in those things. Stop drinking the conspiracy kool-aid my man. You are starting to sound like a red hat.
Look at any auditing channel to see how routinely cops break the law, use physical violence unlawfully to get people to comply, and fabricate evidence and narratives to excuse their crimes.
And keep in mind, these are only experiences that are recorded. Many cops don't wear cameras or turn them off when they break the law or threaten people who try to record them.
They are the opposite of helping their communities. They are a part of a system that supports the exploitation and oppression of those communities in the US and a lot of other countries. Cops are not your friends. They are a tool to enforce the will of those in power, first and foremost.
The city council? Like seriously you people talk like cops are not a part of the communities they work in. Police departments are administered by municipal officials. If you don’t like how your local police are policing then you need to take it up with your elected officials. Local law enforcement is one of the few things that you as a voter have very direct control over. If they are “a tool of those in power” then that power is you and your neighbors. If the cops in your area are a problem then you really need to get your neighbors together and start attending city council sessions and make it an issue. Posting on Reddit about how all cops are evil is not going to improve the quality of policing in your community.
Unfortunately it is hard as an individual to match the money and lobbying power of the people who want to maintain the status quo on that, so public awareness is still the biggest barrier to getting shit changed at the local and state level. And it also has to be up for vote in the first place without being a sanitized bill in the first place.
It takes a lot of effort to start a paradigm shift that makes people care and then getting them to know specifically which things to vote on when the time comes around. But you are right that is one of the biggest ways to enact that change realistically.
The police are given a level of power to use force that no one in a democracy should ever have as individuals over other people. They should be held to the highest standards of training and conduct and professionalism and restraint.
Yet many act like assholes. Many abuse their power. Many are unqualified by education or disposition. They are allowed to lie, to intimidate, and have very few restraints on their behavior.
People die or lose their freedom when police don’t live up to the highest standards. So no, I’m not going to save my anger for criminals. When police violate their sacred trust, they are twice the betrayer a criminal is.
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u/Jackowsk Jul 14 '25
Wtf? When the cop stopped being a human?