RE: Shot in her own home!
October 16, 2019 at 7:03 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2019 at 7:05 pm by Athene.)
(October 16, 2019 at 6:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(October 15, 2019 at 7:14 pm)Athene Wrote: Tbh, much of my opinion on police culture in general has been informed through the lens of working with law enforcement as an EMS worker--as I alluded to in my earlier post. The pervasive lack of integrity and unwillingness to self-police as a norm was made very apparent to me.
Thus, I've come to have little to no respect for law enforcement as a system. The most I can muster is to remain neutral in my opinion of individual officers until such time that I have enough information to determine whether they're actually decent human beings or not. I don't automatically assume them to be "good" people.
There's no good reason to--Not when "Getting Home" and "Protecting Our Own" appears to be the premier objective among so many officers as opposed to "Protect and Serve". That's a tremendously dangerous, shitty outlook for people who have other folk's lives and safety in their hands.
I can't respect that.
You multiple perspectives on the subject make you quite credible as far as I am concerned.
I meant no disrespect.
I didn't think you were being disrespectful in the least, actually.
I was just offering my take on the problems with police culture in general--beside that pesky systemic racism part.
What you said in the post was true. I do know quite a bit about being Black in America.
I've been as much my entire life.
And between you and me, once I reach Level 6 expertise...
Tell no one. It's not time yet.
