I think this is missing the key ingredient: is the victim white and attractive?
United States: How do the Chinese and Russians fall for such obvious government propaganda!?!
Also United States: OMG, my favorite show CSI: Miami Law Blue Bloods Unit is on! OMG, my favorite movie is on Cop Show, but With More CGI and Colorful Costumes!
I feel like you can both enjoy cop shows and know that ACAB IRL.
I personally tend to find it difficult tbh, unless the parts of the show that AREN'T the copaganda hero worship is exceptionally well-written and/or stupid in ways that delight me.
Examples of cop shows (including hybrids with aspects of other genres) I will watch and rewatch for all time:
Lucifer, Brooklyn 99, Paradise PD, Mindhunter, The Wire, Dexter
Examples of shows with so much or so awful copaganda that I believe they should not be allowed on TV without a disclaimer:
Every CSI show; NCIS; every Law & Order show, but especially the ones where they torture and otherwise abuse presumed innocent people the most; 24; Blue Bloods
Cop shows I go back and forth about:
True Detective, Castle, The Blacklist, White Collar, Bones
Then you watch "The First 48" and realize that unless someone actively snitches or the fool immediately goes to the cops "to give their side" and/or flat out confesses, cops would never "solve" crimes.
Moral of the story: Shut the fuck up
unless someone actively snitches
Then you go to The Innocence Project and find out how many jailhouse snitches are issuing false testimony to lighten their own convictions.
My town's police department posts info on wanted criminals on FB and people comment on the posts basically doing the cops' jobs for them. Every person who has been posted about has been caught. The cops here rely on the public to catch criminals and they're shameless about it. Meanwhile they spend their time on duty harassing people who ride ebikes.
Sounds like how the East German Stasi did things.
If you tell me that 65% of your towns entire budget goes to "law enforcement", I would not be surprised at all.
My favorite thing about it is this the more you watch cop shows and cop movies the more you notice a pattern. The biggest villain for all of those shows, the most consistent threat? Internal affairs. It's like every single movie and every single series it has shown up at least once. Those God damn Internal Affairs people stopping good cops from doing what they need to do. It's maybe the single strongest trend throughout all of these shows and movies.
Hell it was even a plot point in Psych. The show about fake psychic detectives had a bad guy Internal Affairs officer.
I used to work for the Medical Examiner's Office. I've picked up more than my share of rape/murder victims. You wouldn't believe the shit I've heard cops say about the victims. I've only ever met a few detectives who really cared and were decent human beings, and coincidentally, they all came from years (or decades) in some other industry before joining their departments as detectives because they had advanced degrees. Never met a single uniformed cop or "promoted from within" detective who was anything other than a soulless piece of power tripping shit at their core.
I was a medic back in the day in a large city. Cops are assholes. Big goofy dumb goons. I've seen them do the dumbest shit. Light a smoke for a dead man. Was just one example. I sat at trial two times just to fuck up a cops day cause they routinely fucked people up for no reason. Goons.
Nothing made me more ACAB than having to work alongside cops.
I got stopped for speeding once at work.
With an MI patient (heart attack) who was unconscious and we were doing CPR and pushing drugs. Had lights and sirens and were on a pretty much empty 4 lane divided highway. I was doing 25 over the speed limit. 5kms faster than allowed by law here for an emergency vehicle but I also had a lot going on inside the truck. No leeway allowed. I got a ticket, that's not the terrible bit though as you read.
Speeding. I had a screaming match with that fucker on the side of the highway. It almost came to blows honestly. Stopped seeing cops as protectors that day. I was 18 and a month into being a full fledged Paramedic.
ACAB all day every day.
I wish I could find that Reddit post about the commenter who called the police every time her ex came by and they literally told her that their arms are tied and there's nothing they can do. She asked them what will it take for them to act, and the cops said, "Maybe if he tried to kill you."
And she even said the restraining order meant nothing to the cops.
The restraining order means nothing to the supreme court, also.
"Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for refusing to enforce a restraining order, even though the refusal led to the murders of a woman's three children by her estranged husband."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales
I like “The Rookie”.
But all these cops obsessing over the letter of the law, keeping each other in line, caring about perp’s life choices and victim’s problems…
This is fantasy. Might as well be Lord of the Rings.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
-John Rogers
Feck off, censors.
The internet isn't for babies, we can take words.
You mean fuck off?
Don't you fucking swear, my dad fucking yells at me otherwise.
I really like how Brooklyn 99 addressed this at the end.
B99 was a very good comedy that took place in an absolute fantasy world.
But hey, that's sitcoms for you. Nobody in Big Bang Theory has to spend a season wiggling out of date rape allegations. Nobody in 7th Heaven gets molested by a priest. Nobody in Cheers beats their spouse.
Addresses what? That entire series, especially the final season, is all copaganda about "Sure, there are corrupt cops out there, but there are also squads on your side that are breaking the law in order to enforce their own morals, so you shouldn't hate cops"
Final Season:
"Our bad guys, we just realized we're part of the copaganda machine so all the best characters are going to quit the force"
Some people: "Omg that makes it worse why didn't you all kill yourselves instead?"
same thing for the military. I mean, I love Stargate, but I will not pretend for a second that it's not propaganda.
Thank you for anticipating the words that I cannot stomach with my weak-ass feelings and censoring them for me. You're my hero. you cunt.
What is r and why does it warrant investigation?
Rope. Marijuana. It’s often censored on social media because algorithms refuse to promote anything controversial or violent. As a result, folks online have created euphemisms for it. Rather than saying “I’m smoking rope” you’ll often find people stating “I’m king grope” to avoid AI cancelation. Hope that helps.
r is a slur fort mentally disabled people and it's being investigated because the police love beating up disabled people of all sorts.
Boo!
So Scary!!!
No idea why people censor themselves like this.
Capitalism has neutered our ability to speak freely about the most important, most painful truths in our society.
The platforms that most people spend most of their conscious thought-power have told our children and adults alike that things like rape, suicide, murder and nazism are so distant from us, so "unreal" that we don't even have words for them anymore.
This isn't a small thing. Language has massive power in our minds to reshape our world. We use language to abstractify complicated ideas and learn how to examine them from different perspectives. Language is how we built a world a wonders and miracles, but we're being conditioned every day to stop using language. Don't read, scroll. Don't debate, retreat to safe spaces. Don't say bad words, someone might feel bad if you say "rape." As if people aren't currently being raped right now. I wonder how they feel about the word.
But did you knoooowwww, that nearly a quarter of US adults are functionally illiterate? Meaning, they can answer texts, they can read street signs and a grocery list, but are almost incapable of stringing together a whole paragraph? This isn't a small problem, it's why the west is falling, it's why we have nazis marching again. I mean... why we have "armband baddies" marching, or whatever the sanitized term is.
Hey, it's not always like that. Now they can also report the victims to ICE, which makes the problem go away much faster.
Why is there self-censorship on the word "rape"?
Entirely warranted fear of overbearing content moderation on corporate social media.
I guess that's one of the reasons I don't use corpo social media, goddamn. Use the words you need to, for fucks sake.
They can even have gang tattoos and still don't get sent to the work camps.
1312! Fuck the police
Watching Live PD last night. Guy runs on a motorcycle. They have the area surrounded after he ditches. They're looking for him and one cop spots him. He commands the guy and he's complying. He's almost on his knees and another cop spots him. He ran, full on run, and leapt onto the guy that was almost on his knees. The other guy that was commanding jumped on him after that as well. Guy wasn't resisting. Guy was complying. Guy had hands in the air. Guy wasn't reaching for anything.
Cop after: "He ran and we didn't know what he was capable of. So we tackled him and restrained him."
It's absolute cop wank material. All of it. The majority of the time they are way over reactive and then try to justify it all. They have that disclaimer, but then most of the time they never really follow up with info, or proper info. "Guy was booked on blah blah." Ok, but was he actually convicted? Was he found guilty, or did you just over react and your "oh I totally for sure smell weed" was bullshit. I'm fucking sick of seeing that too. How many times has jackass said that only to find...nothing.
Pretty much the worst thing about The Wire is that I can't get past cops giving a shit about anything
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