You don't have to be brave to be a cop, you don't have to help people to be a cop, you don't have to know how to de-escalate a situation if you're a cop, and if you murder or steal, you not only get off scot-free, it's state-endorsed. They're a non-criminal gang, that's all there is to it.
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I'd argue they are criminal
They should be criminal, but everything they do is deemed legal.
The real criminals the whole time
You don't even have to know the law to be a cop. We're a nation being policed by ignorant thugs that are only interested in asserting authority, acquiring power, and chasing a bigger annual budget.
They're enforcing for the people who make the real rules, who get to define "crime." Doesn't matter if they bend a few (and show people they're helpless against the state and its monopoly on violence!) as long as they don't harm the system itself.
It 100% is a state-sponsored street gang, just holding, bullying, and taking from 'their' territory as they please. wanders off grumbling something about taxis or something
An origin of slave-hunting, a culture of toxic aggression, a history of abuse and lawlessness, harassment and targeting any actual good cops, and immunity from any crimes they commit... What could go wrong?
I wish I could fail so spectacularly at my job and yet not face any consequences...
The Supreme Court ruled that cops have no duty to protect. Police chose not to protect students in Uvalde. They consistently choose to protect nazi protesters though.
The pro-gun community love to blame Ulvade police. "The problem isn't dogshit gun laws that allowed a teenager with a history of death threats and animal abuse to buy two rifles on a whim from a company that targets edgelords, it was those darn cowardly cops!"
So to get the obvious out of the way first, brave cops don't make much difference. During Sandy Hook, police were on the scene in minutes and breeched within minutes of that. The shooter still killed more people, he just didn't get to mutilate the children beyond recognition with his cool guns.
But the less obvious thing the pro-gun community doesn't seem to realise is that they themselves are one big Ulvade PD.
They too promised us public safety but stand around doing nothing while other people suffer the consequences of gun violence. They too get to dodge the consequences of their failures and joke about it with their buddies months later. They too leave it to everyone else to clean up their mess.
Frothily blame the police all you want, but gun owners are just as spineless and useless.
I mean to be fair the police actively stopped parents who wanted to intervene.
Yes, the parents. How many gun-owning members of the public without children inside volunteered to go in shooting, since they promised everyone they'd be safer if we kept the dogshit gun laws that armed the murderer in the first place?
The reality is that for all their flowery rhetoeic, gun owners only care about their own self interests. The middle-aged, morbidly obese man who wouldn't even wear a mask is not going to fight a tyrant for you. He just wanted to keep his toys.
And if they don't care about people being murdered with legal guns, why should I care about them being murdered because they didn't have a legal gun?
The reality is that for all their flowery rhetoeic, gun owners only care about their own self interests.
I mean yes, sorta. The selling point of guns is that you can defend yourself. The good guy with a gun part is secondary.
Also this us vs them mentality doesn't seem good for productive discussion.
I mean yes, sorta. The selling point of guns is that you can defend yourself. The good guy with a gun part is secondary.
The good guy with a gun is also a lie. If you want to strip out the flowery rhetoric and promises that are never delivered, sure, go ahead. You're left with a group of people who are happy to put other people in danger for their own (often false) sense of security.
Also this us vs them mentality doesn't seem good for productive discussion.
Nope, fuck that. They've had 20 years of polite discussion and potential compromise and they've done nothing. It clearly is us vs them.
Such chicken shit behavior from the worst group of feces ever.
cowardice isnt exactly illegal, and i think a lot of officers learned that carrying a human killing device makes you no less of a coward.
It is in any military force. If cops want to be trusted to flaunt the aesthetic and use equipment of the military, it stands to reason they should then have the same responsibilities.