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While I first heard "fuck the police" in the context of rap, it certainly doesn't seem to be a non-mainstream concept anymore. All of the people I know that fe
by gknoy 11y ago
While I first heard "fuck the police" in the context of rap, it certainly doesn't seem to be a non-mainstream concept anymore. All of the people I know that feel that way are, as far as I know, law-abiding citizens. They've seen first-hand the ways that our local police have treated them (or neighbors) poorly, and have nearly zero trust that they would be treated fairly in any encounter with the police. They've arrived at that philosophical stance after seeing misbehaving officers protected by their departments, or "on leave" instead of fired or prosecuted.
After seeing and reading about various types of (local and national) police misconduct, not to mention the fact that police have asserted that it's __not__ their job to protect us, it's hard not to feel that their perspective is somewhat reasonable.
- nickff 11y agoGovernments and police (from all over the world) have repeatedly asserted that police owe no specific duty of protection to any individual.[1] What is truly remarkable is that so few people have realized this. Most governments assert that they only have a duty to provide security for themselves and/or 'society'; leaving aside the fact that collective rights have a horrific history, this is purely self-preserving.[2][3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_and_group_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_and_group_rights [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Union#Soviet_concept_of_human_rights_and_legal_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Uni...