DonThom
Nowhere GirlCops are sort of the embodiment of flanderized American masculinity. They're ultra hard core professional badasses with military grade hardware, but they won't confront an active shooter while kids are being killed and piss themselves over being bonked on the head by an empty plastic container. The worse they are at their jobs, the more money they get. Cities will literally give them millions in overtime pay to prevent $10k in lost subway fares. They are the most coddled people on earth.
Cops are a gang of overpaid fascist hitmen whom middle class and more affluent white people send to murder anyone they don't like, and that's the only reason they're so adored by our political class.
There's a reason cop shows are so prolific on American TV and why they have become increasingly grandiose and detached from reality.
They're the Andrew Tate of genres. But they're effective apologia for the out of control violence and cowardice and greed of police.
"Those People have gotten so out of hand only a state sanctioned kill squad can restore order, and they're REQUIRED to break the law to do so."
Fascism is already normalized in America.
cognitively accessible math@gwynnion "effective apologia" is entirely to precisely accurate :( Extremely effective, too :( :( :(
Ivey Janette McClelland@gwynnion And before that,it was Westerns that dominated American TV.
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Ciara@gwynnion When the cops become so powerful that they don’t have to obey the law and nobody ever questions their fictional description of events, it’s time to get rid of the cops
Nazani@gwynnion
They shoot because they're too fat to give pursuit.
They shoot because they're too fat to give pursuit.
timberwraith@gwynnion Organized criminals organized by the state.
JP@gwynnion mostly joking but just going off the popular media image i think of hitmen as precise, consummate professionals who target only a specific person and consider collateral damage to be very bad, none of which cops as a class have demonstrated they care about. i think of them more as an occupying army for capital.
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Kagan MacTane (he/him)@fivetonsflax @gwynnion @mhoye Good thing you found that on Wikipedia instead of the original TV Tropes page! That thing can eat a person's entire day.
jules / cowbell as fuckwhy i literally hang up without comment when one of them calls from a police association asking for a donation
RiaResists@gwynnion and the least accountable. To anything.
Chairman Meow ᓚᘏᗢ 🐿️🍉@gwynnion whenever I see a post like this I feel compelled to mention that it's also not unusual in the US for cops/sheriffs to threaten (or even engage in) violence against city councillors/commissioners/mayors who try to reduce their budgets or authority.
Generally in a deniable way of course. They're not idiots (at least not in that way). But once you've seen it happen in practice it's hard to unsee.
@darcher Definitely. That Mafia approach is part of what keeps them in power.
Dirk RitterCops are basically just a cowardly way to send the military without sending the actual military as that caused upheaval in the past and that's it.
Origins of the police - David Whitehouse
Excellent text examining the creation of the first police forces, which took place in England and the US in just a few decades in the mid-19th century. And explaining that they were not brought into being to prevent crime or protect the public, but primarily to control crowds: the working class, white and black.
Jamesrado@gwynnion I agree they are evil. I've seen it first hand, and have been slapped around by them before, but they are still a necessary evil that we have to live with. :(
Frances LarinaAnd let's not forget "Qualified Immunity", a legal doctrine dreamed up just for them so they don't have to be responsible for anything they do.