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[-] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

She's a family member on my husband's side. I don't know what she's done. She doesn't talk details about her work. But, knowing her, she wouldn't let someone get away with a felony just because she knows them. She's not a police officer. She's super smart, kinda nerdy, introverted, and very progressive. She's horrified by the same things we're horrified by, with the Trump administration, and she despises the current FBI leadership.

I think a lot of y'all have bought into the ACAB narrative a little too hard. Like, yes, are a lot of them bad? Absolutely. I was beaten by a group of cops when I was 18. I'm no stranger to that. But also, there are people that staff internal investigations offices and federal agents that only go after actual murderers. They're not all corrupt street cops.

Everything exists on a spectrum. Given their training and mostly free reign to do crimes themselves, yeah, a lot of street cops are corrupt to some degree. But, I think FBI agents are held, and hold themselves, to a different standard and, they have a much higher level of training/vetting. It makes sense (to me) that they're less corrupt.

It's silly to demonize the organization, as a whole, because of their politically appointed leaders and because street cops generally suck. Is it really so hard to believe that some people at the highest levels of law enforcement actually want to uphold the law? I don't think things are as cartoonishly black and white as you make them out to be.

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