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One of the most important roles police can have is to protect the poor from oppression from the rich, and private armed forces are not a substitute there.

by Flimm 11y ago

throwaway1967 11y ago
> One of the most important roles police can have is to protect the poor from oppression from the rich How's that working out in the US? Right now there's a Holocaust happening where some 50 million poor blacks have been killed inside their mothers' wombs. It's alright though, in the US babies and kids are barely citizens, otherwise hitting them would be criminal assault. Police : Government :: Human Resources : Corporation Got it? Or do I need to show you YouTube videos of several cops saying to a citizen that they (the cop) don't really work for them (the citizen)? It's nice that it's in writing but if the police officer as a person doesn't know about it, it doesn't help the citizen being abused by the officer that the officer actually works for the public. If you want the police to protect the poor from the rich, you have to come up with a way that this police answers to the poor and to no one else. Right now the rich decide how the police can selectively enforce the law and guess what, it's usually to the detriment of the poor.
patrickaljord 11y ago
Poor people have private agents too, they usually gather the money to pay monthly. There are various types of private agencies, some are way more sophisticated, expensive and efficient than others. Some are just ex-cops trying to make a living (this is what it was like where I was). And it works great, poor people tend to have less stuff to defend from thieves while rich people have way more valuable property to protect so they attract more thieves and kidnappers than the poor and have to pay more efficient/modern/expensive agencies, which makes sense.

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One of the most important roles police can have is to protect the poor from oppression from the rich, and private armed forces are not a substitute there.

by Flimm 11y ago

One of the most important roles police can have is to protect the poor from oppression from the rich, and private armed forces are not a substitute there.

throwaway1967 11y ago
> One of the most important roles police can have is to protect the poor from oppression from the rich How's that working out in the US? Right now there's a Holocaust happening where some 50 million poor blacks have been killed inside their mothers' wombs. It's alright though, in the US babies and kids are barely citizens, otherwise hitting them would be criminal assault. Police : Government :: Human Resources : Corporation Got it? Or do I need to show you YouTube videos of several cops saying to a citizen that they (the cop) don't really work for them (the citizen)? It's nice that it's in writing but if the police officer as a person doesn't know about it, it doesn't help the citizen being abused by the officer that the officer actually works for the public. If you want the police to protect the poor from the rich, you have to come up with a way that this police answers to the poor and to no one else. Right now the rich decide how the police can selectively enforce the law and guess what, it's usually to the detriment of the poor.
patrickaljord 11y ago
Poor people have private agents too, they usually gather the money to pay monthly. There are various types of private agencies, some are way more sophisticated, expensive and efficient than others. Some are just ex-cops trying to make a living (this is what it was like where I was). And it works great, poor people tend to have less stuff to defend from thieves while rich people have way more valuable property to protect so they attract more thieves and kidnappers than the poor and have to pay more efficient/modern/expensive agencies, which makes sense.