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They have certain obligations by law and you would certainly pay a fine for wasting their time. A judge would not have much sympathy for a clown.
by happyscrappy 11y ago
They have certain obligations by law and you would certainly pay a fine for wasting their time. A judge would not have much sympathy for a clown.
- mikeash 11y agoI'm well aware of what would actually happen. I'm not talking about that.
- jessaustin 11y agoWhat do the cops ever do with their time that isn't a waste? They only rarely and incidentally protect anyone from any actual threat. Mostly they hassle, ticket, menace, and otherwise inconvenience the public. If they all went on strike next week, violence and mayhem would decrease.
- happyscrappy 11y agoRight, there are no criminals, that is all just made up by the police-industial-complex.
- jessaustin 11y ago2/3 of them are. If you doubt it, look at any international comparison of incarceration rates.
- happyscrappy 11y ago80% of crime goes unsolved, but if you have never lived in a bad neighborhood you might misunderstand.
- jessaustin 11y agoYou think "bad" neighborhoods are arguments in the police's favor? I guess you've never had your door knocked down in the middle of the night...
- happyscrappy 11y agoYou claimed most criminals were setup by the cops, it seems very unlikely you have had any interaction with either side.
- jessaustin 11y agoThe "industrial-complex" you invoke includes all institutions that create, support, and perpetuate it. Maybe the cops don't write the laws, maybe they don't bargain the pleas, at any rate they don't join LEAP until retirement. The vast surplus of "criminals" in USA, that has existed nowhere else and at no other time in all of human experience, has been manufactured by the industrial-complex, for its own purposes. Like other rational people who live or have lived in USA, I have minimized my interaction with both "sides" to the extent that I've been able. (Although frankly I elicited more sympathy for a stolen bike from an admitted bike thief than I did from any cop.) If you drop another "you just don't know how it is to be a cop" whinge on us, I'll be forced to assume that you are a cop or in the immediate family of one.
- happyscrappy 11y agoTis quite sad that all family of law enforcement is by default impunged. But prejudice knows no bounds.