We Don’t Need Warrior Cops
Policing Campus ProtestsFixed the headline
We Don’t Need
WarriorCopsPolicing Campus ProtestsPeriod.
Are you smoking crack? Just when I think people can’t get any more liberal than Reddit…I’m introduced to Lemmy…
Tell me, what situations require police?
Don’t worry, you don’t have to go off, I’m going to refute anything you say.
What if I’ve been robbed, and 2 days later I need someone to write a report about it and tell me I’ll never see my stuff again?
No, we just need MORE cops, at least where I live…thanks to liberals and their “defund” movement…
It’s 2024. I can’t believe trumpers still don’t understand what that was all about.
I know what it was about…it was all talk, just like the BLM thing…nothing but people complaining about how horrible cops are because of a couple idiots…but please, by all means, keep telling everyone how they DON’T need to be funding the police that much…
Hilarious. This place needs some trolls to shake shit up.
Non-Liberal/democrat= Troll
I guess that’s the way around here…just like Reddit.
The “defund” (aka, the move funding to more effective places) movement didn’t get anything done almost anywhere. I don’t know a single place where funding didn’t end up going up. I’d recommend looking into it yourself, and also checking up on your media literacy to see if you are sufficiently critical of what they tell you to believe.
The point of the defund movement was actually generally pro-cop, in that cops shouldn’t have to do every single job. They shouldn’t have to be councilors, mental health care providers, and whatever else. We need all these random jobs to be done by people with proper training. We need cops when we need violence. That’s what they’re trained to do. We need to increase finding overall, but move some portion of the funding of cops elsewhere.
Again though, this didn’t happen almost anywhere. I have heard of a few places that managed to set up groups that go in to de-escalate and calmly check out non-violent crimes being committed, but it’s really rare. I don’t think the funding of cops decreased in those places either.
I’ve seen one of these in action; I was walking to get coffee, and there was a homeless man on an open corner sitting down. The van showed up, and I hung around in case they had any issues.
They asked about him, asked if he was okay, asked if they could give him a ride anywhere, and said they had warm dry socks in the van if they could help him get somewhere. No judgement, no cajoling, no trick to force him to go to a shelter, though they did mention a few that could help him. I’d much rather see this than… oh let’s just say houston, where I saw a paramedic yell at a homeless guy and told him if he wanted to go to the hospital he had to walk 2 miles that way (out of his district) and call 911 again.
It’s like inviting a bunch of drunk frat boys to a house party. They’re just gonna show up break shit and rape people
I don’t know why so many people think frat boys are just going to rape a bunch of people. Sure there are some… but fraternities can also be pretty chill.
I imagine because there’s thousands of date rapes reported (a small fraction of the total number since most are unreported) in universities connected with frat houses.
Sexual assault, abuse and deaths being the primary reasons a lot of fraternity houses are shutdown on campuses.
But that’s just off the top of my head…
We Don’t Need
WarriorCopsPolicing Campus Protestsperiod.FTFY.
Fuck the police.
ACAB
Clearly we do. But the children here will never understand that.
Could you be misunderstanding the purpose of the police? Hint: they’re not meant to protect the public
Last I checked, one of their core functions is to prevent trespassing and vandalism.
So, what do the Universities do? Just let them stay there as long as they want?
I mean, Lemmy lets you stay even though you are annoying as fuck, and nobody brutalizes you for sharing your viewpoints (psychotic as they may be). Perhaps you could put that shoe on the other foot if you could first pull it out of your mouth.
Is this a joke? I’m probably the ONLY person on this entire site that leans Right, and I’ve been called every name in the book for my opinions because they don’t align with the Left…
As long as they’re peaceful, then pretty much, yes. A state university where the land is publicly owned (government “owned” property), it sounds like they were exercising their rights to assemble, speak, and petition the government…
But they weren’t peaceful, that’s the issue. The whole reason the university went in was because the protestors were putting other students at risk, more specifically, Jewish students.
Yes. Property is not as important as life.
But not other students lives right? I mean, the whole reason Colombia did what they did was because other students were afraid. More specifically, Jewish students. But, they don’t matter, right?
Hi, just dropping by reading the comments. I believe Jewish students were a part of the protesters so you can’t really go that route without adding a conditional on which Jewish students were in danger.
If I’m reading this right, the groups themselves were peaceful, but individuals which may have been just anti-Israel instead of pro-Palestine or outside agitators taking advantage of the situation stirred things up towards violence. The administration was ineffective in identifying these individuals or maintaining the overall peace, so instead members of the peaceful groups were arrested in order to shut the whole thing down.
So from this perspective, i can see why you would say that.
If I’m reading this right, the groups themselves were peaceful, but individuals which may have been just anti-Israel instead of pro-Palestine or outside agitators taking advantage of the situation stirred things up towards violence.
Something like this is always the line used when there’s protest violence and you really want to support the cause and so feel a need to minimize or disregard any violence.
It is also a common method used to incite violence at peaceful protests in order to disperse them. This is seen as such more clearly when the individuals apprehended are not the ones causing violence and instead are part of what seems to be the leadership of said protests.