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Cops may be human, but they are still part of an inhuman organisation. Individual actions don't matter if everyone around you is terrible.
by qqssccfftt 6y ago
Cops may be human, but they are still part of an inhuman organisation. Individual actions don't matter if everyone around you is terrible.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoMy father and ex husband were both career Army. The need to have some mechanism to deal with humans behaving badly is universal and lots of people talk like the police and the military are inherently the bad guys. It's not an argument that gets any sympathy from me. I would like to have actual solutions available. I run multiple websites to provide useful information for homeless Americans. The local police department gives out flyers listing my websites and I get along well with the local chief of police when I run into him. I find the local police to be much better allies for my purposes than local homeless services. They aren't subject to The Shirky Principle, so they genuinely would like to see homeless individuals get their act together so they can focus on more serious crimes. They are much more comfortable with my agenda to empower homeless people to pursue an income and solutions from the street. They aren't at all interested in treating homeless people like a puppy that followed them home.