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LOL, not a single Lemmy user would even be brave enough to be a police officer.
These days it takes a lot more bravery to be a teacher than a cop.
Or a kid at school for that matter.
Law enforcement isn't even one of the 25 most dangerous jobs in America. Trimming trees is many times more dangerous, for one.
According to the most recent data available (2020-2021), the most common causes of cops dying were covid and vehicular accidents. Both of which have been directly or indirectly self-inflicted via reckless behaviour in many if not the majority of cases.
In conclusion: fuck off with your Hollywood fantasies of heroic cops doing one of the most dangerous and important jobs to protect the rest of us, lickspittle, that's not real. Cops murdering and otherwise unlawfully abusing people with impunity is.
Yes, tell me more about how brave cops are. You know, the cops that, in the US, have no legal obligation to protect you, to know the law, or enforce the law.
One might as well speak of brave taxi drivers for all the relevance bravery has to the job. A vocation with more injuries and fatalities than being a LEO, I must note.
The worst part is, I'm far less anti-cop than most Lemmy users, probably. I'm convinced that there are a great many good cops and good departments, despite the decay of responsibility of the American police (and their often-unsavory origins as strikebreakers). I also believe that professional policing forces, while not technically vital, are an extremely useful service that should attract men of honor and be regarded as such.
But repeating copaganda is not the way to empower the good cops out there. The way you empower good cops is by making more good cops - and you make more good cops by creating strong institutions of accountability and using them. Empowering cops without accountability is not a way to make good enforcers of the law - it's a way to make thugs out of ordinary men.
'i dream of a day when cops aren't acab'
Dream on, I guess.
Policing has always been a profession focused on protecting capital and authority.
Nothing short of absolutely scrapping the system of policing will do what you want.
While we're at it, let's scrap that system that uses cops to protect capital. Put the people at the top of that system on the bottom of the new one
Brave like the cops at Uvalde?
You mispelled “dumb”. We aren’t dumb enough to be a police officer.
You mispelled “cowardly”. We aren’t cowardly enough to stand outside of buildings while lifes are endanger.
It doesn’t take much bravery to stand outside a school and watch kids get shot.
I'm a farmer; I narrowly avoided death three times before lunch today.