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this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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When it comes down to it, cops are the ones dealing with a lot of shit other people avoid. Like you're saying, we should consider what they have to say about it.
Also, we should give them mental health support. It's a stressful job with abundant opportunities for trauma. Even if we have no empathy for them, it's in our best interest to provide tools and support to the people dealing with violent and mentally ill people. But that's a whole other conversation.
Why on earth would we have no empathy for them? I cannot imagine what it takes to hold and comfort a 10 year old child dying in my arms who has been stabbed by their parent. With two kids around that age myself, I'd be a complete wreck! And he's attended up to 20 domestic violence calls in a night! For years!
Nothing but respect for someone who can do that.
Lemmy is full of anti-police propaganda and pure hatred, it's wild. So, I framed it as a hypothetical.
I do have empathy for them, and think any well-adjusted and intelligent person should.
What's wild is how people trust cops in this country. Watch the Moonlight State and know the joke is alive and well.