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What's funny is that it doesn't matter whether it was improving or not. Law is law. You don't stop chasing criminals just because criminality is down.

thecolorblue 6y ago
> You don't stop chasing criminals just because criminality is down. The process of arresting and charging those who have broken the law should not change either.
- snogaraleal 6y ago
  Yet it seems to have changed nation-wide in order to accommodate those who are "protesting". You can't get it both ways.
mnm1 6y ago
Why let innocence get in the way of chasing people down? That's the argument police unions have been making for years. Whenever society wants to improve and decriminalize something, it can't because the fucking cops want to have easy arrest targets. Fuck them. At least now we can stop pretending we don't live in a police state.
- snogaraleal 6y ago
  > Why let innocence get in the way of chasing people down? That's what I would ask BLM protestors making people kneel on the basis of their gender, skin, or job, in the same ironic tone.
  - grumio 6y ago
    >BLM protestors making people kneel Source? Any videos of BLM protestors forcing people to kneel?
    - snogaraleal 6y ago
      Just look at a mirror. :)
      - dang 6y ago
        Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, it destroys what it is for, and your comments in this thread have unfortunately created the worst parts of it. We ban such accounts, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        snogaraleal 6y ago
        Please, go ahead. I wanted to delete my account but HN isn't even GDPR compliant.
  - entropea 6y ago
    >That's what I would ask BLM protestors making people kneel on the basis of their gender, skin, or job, in the same ironic tone. "Making"? I don't think that's true. People are doing it in respect of black lives, unlike when people are forcibly being abducted by unmarked federal police.
    - snogaraleal 6y ago
      Actually, "protestors" are just letting themselves get abducted, you know, out of respect for unmarked federal police.

thecolorblue 6y ago

> You don't stop chasing criminals just because criminality is down. The process of arresting and charging those who have broken the law should not change either.

snogaraleal 6y ago
Yet it seems to have changed nation-wide in order to accommodate those who are "protesting". You can't get it both ways.

mnm1 6y ago

Why let innocence get in the way of chasing people down? That's the argument police unions have been making for years. Whenever society wants to improve and decriminalize something, it can't because the fucking cops want to have easy arrest targets. Fuck them. At least now we can stop pretending we don't live in a police state.

snogaraleal 6y ago
> Why let innocence get in the way of chasing people down? That's what I would ask BLM protestors making people kneel on the basis of their gender, skin, or job, in the same ironic tone.
- grumio 6y ago
  >BLM protestors making people kneel Source? Any videos of BLM protestors forcing people to kneel?
  - snogaraleal 6y ago
    Just look at a mirror. :)
    - dang 6y ago
      Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, it destroys what it is for, and your comments in this thread have unfortunately created the worst parts of it. We ban such accounts, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - snogaraleal 6y ago
        Please, go ahead. I wanted to delete my account but HN isn't even GDPR compliant.
- entropea 6y ago
  >That's what I would ask BLM protestors making people kneel on the basis of their gender, skin, or job, in the same ironic tone. "Making"? I don't think that's true. People are doing it in respect of black lives, unlike when people are forcibly being abducted by unmarked federal police.
  - snogaraleal 6y ago
    Actually, "protestors" are just letting themselves get abducted, you know, out of respect for unmarked federal police.