RE: Fucking Cops
September 18, 2015 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2015 at 12:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 17, 2015 at 3:51 pm)Minimalist Wrote: As has been noted, cops are far more likely to kill themselves than be shot by a criminal.
Last I checked....everyone is more likely to shoot themselves than be shot by anyone else, by a -very- wide margin...and yet we still have this fear, and it's pointed to as a justification for police brutality and up-armament (and a whole host of other things) to no end. People believe silly things for silly reasons? You'd think that the business of police work would be taken a little more seriously than to allow that into consideration...but it isn't, for whatever reason. I guess that's what makes it so disappointing, for me, anyway. I get that cops will always make mistakes, that some portion will be corrupt or inept - but the way we've ordered our system, at a fundamental level, positively encourages it, and we not only allow that, we solemnly bow our heads in support of it, in support of our "boys in blue", we "do it for the kids" and the dangers we imagine that they face. It's perfect stump-bait.
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