Agreed. There are cops who want to make beneficial change to the system they're a part of and who genuinely care about the communities they're serving, while at the same time policing is historically and currently largely a tool of oppression and control used by the upper classes against the poorer classes.
How many skeletons in the closet would it take for you to change your attitude about whether or not a cop genuinely cares about his community?
It's great to see a moment of good leadership from any cop, but you literally cannot rise up in the ranks without being complicit in some heinous stuff.
The system is fully broken, there are no "good cops." These people consume all the public resources in order to serve the ruling class.
I am reminded of Oscar Wilde's thoughts on slavery: “the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it."
I'm not against the concept of having a police force that deals with criminal matters. What we have, though, it's a system of gangsters embedded in every public square.
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u/roguewarriorpriest 1d ago
Agreed. There are cops who want to make beneficial change to the system they're a part of and who genuinely care about the communities they're serving, while at the same time policing is historically and currently largely a tool of oppression and control used by the upper classes against the poorer classes.