I'm At The Combination Coconut Tree And Solution Nine: The problem when your slogan becomes "ACAB" without a hint of irony is when you start slapping every authority figure under the status of "cop" and just sort of tip your hand by revealing the Bad Guys are Anyone Who Tells Me To Do Things.

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If you know which predicts to look at from 2018-2022 in Virginia, it's pretty clear The Pentagon officer corps is switching parties en masse

Precincts full of workers for the national security and federal law enforcement three-letter agencies have, too

Enlisted men? *NEVER* as Republican as one would think--and less so now over the span of the same period They use to lean GOP but we're talking 55/45 not 70/30

The plural of anecdote isn't data, but one of my friends made recently is a vet from Iraq who saw some Shit, absolutely made his way out of the darkness as an angrier young man. You know the sort of people he really can't stand? Insurrectionists and Nazis.

Federal law enforcement (unlike certain local PDs) *cannot STAND* those people either I've known FBI agents--they're super square Dudely Do-Rights who hate law breakers and political extremists, period, left or right

The problem when your slogan becomes "ACAB" without a hint of irony is when you start slapping every authority figure under the status of "cop" and just sort of tip your hand by revealing the Bad Guys are Anyone Who Tells Me To Do Things.

Also it's just not true There are good PDs there are so-so ones and there are truly rotten ones It's a big country!!!

That kind of blanket catch all statement reminds me of nothing so much as the right wing labeling all our public schools as 'failing'

Like, I will say it because yes - you should be distrustful of the police. That is a healthy attitude toward an organization with a great deal of institutional power and the ability to do a lot to you on a whim. But it's a shorthand, not a complex idea, and the reality is way more complicated.

You cannot simply remove the police without replacing them with something, which in and of itself becomes a new form of police even if they have a different name. Cops are not automatically the good guys or the bad guys, and every piece of media where a cop is good is not "copaganda."

Remember when CHAZ reinvented the police in a week and they started shooting black people

unironically i think policing needs to be higher status in america in the sense that higher status = we will hold you to a very high standard and punish you harshly if you disgrace your office

I'm remembering a defund the police comic that went around twitter in 2020 that explained why we don't need them, and one example was the domestic violence victim who - instead of calling the cops - should just leave the house and drive to a shelter 1/2

Because abusers never would block the door or take away keys or have trackers put on cars or... Not to say that the current system works great but the person who made that obviously had never met anyone in that situation.

I would simply not become a victim of domestic violence. (narrator voice: she had, in fact, been a victim of domestic violence)

Most urban officers I’ve gotten to know (small sample) have turned out to be bastards, but that didn’t make them unnecessary, I owe my life to a bastard

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Two wrongs sometimes make a right.youtu.be Quote from The Simpsons - Season 3 Episode 3: (Lisa Simpson) ''It's funny how two wrongs sometimes make a right.'' Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively. One man problem can be another man solution. There's no disaster that can't become a blessing and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

The entire point of having a state (or at least a huge part of it) is that the state can be the biggest asshole around, even bigger assholes than criminals

And since anyone has yet to make anarchy work above the commune level (and often not even then) it's the lesser evil

The purpose is to have someone there who can tell everyone "no, you can't do this" and when the question is asked about what you're going to do about it, the answer is "this." If you have no state power to stop you... do you want Immortan Joe? This is how you get Immortan Joe.

Simple market logic: a state monopoly on violence will produce less violence than a competitive, private market on violence.

I have lived in large and medium cities and tiny towns The big cities get national news stories and federal orders, out in the sticks you have to listen to the families of the victims more directly I haven’t lived everywhere, but good departments seem to be the exception

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