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shalafi ,

When one human has the power to kick another one’s ass at will, they often do. It’s Psych 101.

When we don’t have that option, we figure out how to navigate the situation. LOL, a couple of months at my first tech support gig taught me to dial the haters down in a hurry! Hell, I talked a psycho down from literally torturing me one time. 3rd closest time I’ve come to meeting the scythe wielding skeleton.

What’s the answer? Fuck I know. Cops have to have power, or they’re toothless, and therefore useless. Maybe training that involves them being on the other end?

“You have no weapons, no authority, and I’m going to kick the living shit out of you unless you calm me down!” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Or, and this is madness, we could find a way to pull the teeth out of their unions? I’m all for worker’s unions, but cops are, by necessity, a different category of citizen.

OR, if they want to be badass military dudes, maybe the actual military could come in and school them on rules of engagement? (I’m liking this the more I think about it.)

It was either Dr. Who, or more likely Star Trek, where the protagonist said, “Police officers. I’d recognize them in any century.”

mycatiskai , (edited )

There was an interview on TYT with a former Baltimore cop who was a former military member. He talked about how bad the police who hadn’t been military were at discipline and high stress situations. He also talked a lot about how they had to drive to the poor black areas of town to get their ticketing done because they get in trouble if they gave out a lot of tickets in the white areas of town.

Just wanted to add the link to a clip of the interview. youtu.be/GV3Ctz8pfeU?si=odmV37RbcVcF2rRS

Honytawk ,

Didn’t they also send cops who complained about other cops doing police brutality to bad neighbourhoods without backup?

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