THE POLICE PROBLEM

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Agree, there are absolutely horrible police systems, same as there are horrible people everywhere. The other side is also true, There are honorable police officers doing honorable work in many systems, protecting society like it's their own family. Let's not forget about that. I feel that the horrible systems get more media coverage, therefore pooling the good cops with the bad ones. Nobody covers all the times a cop takes down a dangerous person that poses an immediate threat to someone else. There are no cameras around when a cop takes down a guy who just beat up his wife.

Nope.

Perhaps, Japan...

If you want to know what kind of people will be in a job, on average, consider what the job incentivizes and how that might appeal to the motives of different kinds of people.

Law enforcement ostensibly promotes an image of community service and protection. So you will find people that wish to do those things seeking to become police officers.

But the reality is that police work itself, policies, and legal protections for officers is far more focused on the state sanctioned use of force, the strict adherence to laws for citizenry but far more lax enforcement on officers themselves, and the authority of command given to officers in interactions with them. So for someone who wants to posture as a tough guy, to dominate over people with legal authority, to commit acts of violence with little, if any, consequence for themselves or recourse for he victim, and to remain in good standing in much of society because of the aforementioned promoted image, it serves those desires too.

And due to the us vs them mentality, the lack of liability, and the tight community formed just within law enforcement and those who work directly with them (prosecutors/DAs, judges, mayors, etc) that do not hold each other accountable unless they do something to violate that community (like reporting abuse of authority, excessive force, gross negligence, etc. on fellow officers), then the police culture itself incentives pushing out the cops with good intentions that may stir up "trouble" in the community in favor of those who will allow or actively propagate corruption and collusion.

If a job incentivizes and/or protects aggression, violence, and pretty crime, don't be shocked when it's full of aggressive, violent, petty criminals.

That's how they got the job.

Nowhere that has hierarchy, and therefore power and wealth held in the hands of a few to pay others to commit violence on their behalf.

But who are the police and the soldiers who protect the capitalists against you, against the people?

If they were capitalists themselves, then it would stand to reason why they want to protect the wealth they have stolen, and why they try to keep up, even by force, the system that gives them the privilege of robbing the people.

But the police and the soldiers, the defenders of ‘law and order’, are not of the capitalist class. They are men from the ranks of the people, poor men who for pay protect the very system that keeps them poor. It is unbelievable, is it not? Yet it is true. It just comes down to this: some of the slaves protect their masters in keeping them and the rest of the people in slavery. In the same way Great Britain, for instance, keeps the Hindoos in India in subjection by a police force of the natives, of the Hindoos themselves. Or as Belgium does with the black men in the Congo. Or as any government does with a subjugated people.

It is the same system.

Here is what it amounts to: Capitalism robs and exploits the whole of the people; the laws legalize and uphold this capitalist robbery; the government uses one part of the people to aid and protect the capitalists in robbing the whole of the people. The entire thing is kept up by educating the people to believe that capitalism is right, that the law is just, and that the government must be obeyed. Do you see through this game now?

from Now and After by Alexander Berkman, Chapter 3: Law and Government. Available to read for free here.

The complete phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch." Just because the US police are particularly awful doesn't mean other countries' police don't also have systemic issues or that they aren't problematic institutions in general.

Doesn't it seem strange there are 5 cops at a hospital and one of those cops is a canine unit.

Maybe there is more to the story

Reaction from the police spokesperson linked by a commenter indicates they see no problem with this.

Me when I'm a class traitor too

Still better then the us, or for that matter our own police.

Nah yall are just ten years behind like always.

Yep, EU jingoism is on the rise. There's unfortunately quite a lot of it here on Lemmy. It reminds me of the tankies - America bad so EU must be good.

Just thought he'd cause a fucken miscarriage because a pregnant woman shoo'd away another pig's grip.

I was going to say, you can say that again, so I will!

ACAB

Where'd you go? I'm looking to leave, I recently researched a place in Italy where 350k could buy me a 520m2 villa while here in the Netherlands I can't even afford the smallest apartments that are now crossing the 400k mark.