RE: Fucking Cops: Volume II
May 30, 2017 at 3:10 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2017 at 3:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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It's not really an issue of whether or not's it's as bad a problem, to me anyway. I'm simply pointing out that it's not the same problem. If our gun problem is the ten people who die every day, then no amount of us writing more laws about gun violence will solve that problem - and whatever reduction in that problem would be acjhieved by such laws could/should already be achieved since gun violence is already super duper illegal. In the US, we half step around sticky issues that we don;t want to address or acknowledge. We'd rather talk about (and write laws about) dirty crimers who do crimes than acknowledge a mental health problem for what it is...and even then, we'd rather call those dirty crimers who do crimes the problem...rather than acknowledge that there's a problem that actively compels them to crime.
The same little drama plays itself out on the fucking cops issue. The problem (that cops are beating/killing darkies like hotcakes) is always addressed as some other thing. The real problem is the bad apples, even though..hilariously, the bad apples and the good apples are both placed in situations in which the outcome of either apples involvement will be largely identical. So what do we do....? We write more laws criminalizing more shit. We get tougher on crime because the crimers are making cops shoot people...somehow, the price of doing the business of justice...and it can't be that the police institution itself is the problem.
It's not really an issue of whether or not's it's as bad a problem, to me anyway. I'm simply pointing out that it's not the same problem. If our gun problem is the ten people who die every day, then no amount of us writing more laws about gun violence will solve that problem - and whatever reduction in that problem would be acjhieved by such laws could/should already be achieved since gun violence is already super duper illegal. In the US, we half step around sticky issues that we don;t want to address or acknowledge. We'd rather talk about (and write laws about) dirty crimers who do crimes than acknowledge a mental health problem for what it is...and even then, we'd rather call those dirty crimers who do crimes the problem...rather than acknowledge that there's a problem that actively compels them to crime.
The same little drama plays itself out on the fucking cops issue. The problem (that cops are beating/killing darkies like hotcakes) is always addressed as some other thing. The real problem is the bad apples, even though..hilariously, the bad apples and the good apples are both placed in situations in which the outcome of either apples involvement will be largely identical. So what do we do....? We write more laws criminalizing more shit. We get tougher on crime because the crimers are making cops shoot people...somehow, the price of doing the business of justice...and it can't be that the police institution itself is the problem.
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