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[-] Moah 86 points 10 months ago

Maybe we should defund the police.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 23 points 10 months ago

Let's hope they tase some more rich white guys so we can get them on board finally.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

They literally won't go in to those neighborhoods.

I used to think I was going to be a cop, I joined the explorers and hung out with cops, I went on rice alongs. I spent entire shifts following cops around watching them do cop shit my senior year of high school.

They would spend most of their time doing traffic patrols. The "good" cops hung out in more middle class neighborhoods, the shitheads specifically targeted poorer neighborhoods. No one patrols the affluent areas. When a call comes in they argue about who has to go. A domestic disturbance in the trailer park would get every officer not currently arresting someone out to see what's going on, because they're bored.

They know not to pull certain cars over, to look the other way when certain people are caught drunk or high in public. That's just the extent of the stuff I personally saw.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

Doesn't surprise me, although eventually they'll get so brazen they'll go after everyone, not just the poor.

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

But that's not how it works. The police are owned by them. Unless you mean that they get out of control of anyone and then attack their old masters as well. But that seems like such a bad idea that I don't know if even cops could be braindead enough to do that.

[-] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Rich people have private security and doctors. If a rich kid is having a seizure an ambulance will show up not the police and if they did private security would escort the police if they have emt experience

[-] primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean, they did go after a finance guy. that is what I'd like violent thugs to be doing, if we gotta have em in society. I feel like this one is more funny than bad.

yes I would be shouting bloody murder if they did this to, like, a random unhoused person, but this time was fine, too bad they let him live.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

This finance guy? Who was having a seizure? What the fuck is wrong with you?

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I'm so in love with the idea of a world with no police. A place where murder is acceptable and any crime you want to commit is never investigated.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

You think the police is the line that makes crime not acceptable? Holy shit hahaha. Police officers investigating crime, like on TV? Haha

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Hey everyone! A coward ⬆️

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Yep I'm a coward, the guy who was arrested by the police for confronting my crack had neighbour for threatening my wife.

I'm the coward because even though I got in trouble I still support having the police around.

You know why?

Because I don't come from the cesspool that is America

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago
[-] Jentu 9 points 10 months ago

Murder is already acceptable if you're a cop.

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