• DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Why is this comment upvoted? It contributes nothing to the discussion.

      Of course some LEOs suck, and to be honest I’m a bit leery of folks with the personality type that tends to go into LE generally, but you’ve got to be borderline retarded to believe they’re literally ALL bad.

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        The system itself in America is rotten to the core. It takes national outcries for ANYTHING to be done about cop murders and even that’s no fucking guarantee.

        Millions of minority households in America have something called the ‘cop talk’ as a matter of survival. Because it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong, if a black person gives a racist cop the tiniest reason to engage, the civilian can end up dead and the cop will face fuck all justice.

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        Any system that allows for qualified immunity and offers a pay rate similar to the abysmal pay of teachers is inherently going to skew towards bastards.

        Sure, it’s plausible for a cop to not be a total dick, but it’s not a coincidence that so many dicks grow up to be cops.

      • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works
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        They are all bad. You said so yourself, “the personality type that tends to go into LE”. That personality type is called, a bad person. I don’t believe for a second that anyone with good intentions can look at the current state of law enforcement in the US and say “I’ll become a cop to help people”. The ones that do won’t last long if they are actually good because they will be forced out as soon as they try to stop the bad cops.

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          Police should be staffed on a ballot system like juries. Wanting to be a cop (or politician) should be grounds for rejection. Everyone who is drawn does a mandatory two years. Sure there might need to be a skeleton permanent administrative staff, like Government, for continuity but the front of house folk should be ordinary people.