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It's a power play. Police are law enforcement through use of power. They don't have 'make life better for people' in their workday.
by bravoetch 7y ago
It's a power play. Police are law enforcement through use of power. They don't have 'make life better for people' in their workday.
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago> They don't have Those police don't have The ones where I live aren't like that.
- birdyrooster 7y agoWow, that's so informative.
- cgriswald 7y agoIt is. It’s informative because people like to talk about “the police” as a homogeneous group of people who all think and act the same way; as if a rural sheriff in Alaska is the same person as a beat cop in NYC or a camera operator in London. This sort of stereotyping is problematic, because you can’t fix problems if you can’t differentiate between dysfunctional and functional. You can’t make changes if you alienate the good with the bad. And you can’t make things better if you’re making global changes without understanding local context.
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- birdyrooster 7y agoRight, but the comment I was responding to offered no such details and came across as defensive. I appreciate you bolstering their assertion.
- afarrell 7y agocgriswold didn’t offer any real-world details, only 2 abstract principles. In contrast, saying “the police where I live do act like they have ‘make people’s lives better’ as part of their mandate” is an observation on a local reality