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Then there's the possibility that all the honest officers who don't want to follow those orders quit or strike or otherwise refuse to report to work to do these

Then there's the possibility that all the honest officers who don't want to follow those orders quit or strike or otherwise refuse to report to work to do these things. When the oppressor only has the truly pathological cases to support them, it's a lot easier to know who to fight. I know, the 'good' officers can be leveraged, hostaged, or any number of other coercive ways to make them do what the oppressor wants. And I don't generally agree with the 'stay in the system and help fix it from within'. When you're having to take crappy orders from above, your only recourse is mutiny or other disobedience and it's a lot harder to manage in an already corrupt chain.

luckylion 6y ago
> Then there's the possibility that all the honest officers who don't want to follow those orders quit or strike or otherwise refuse to report to work to do these things. No it's not, not generally. When the police goes away, in a lot of places, society falls apart because the vicious prey on the rest without hesitation. Especially the good cops don't want that, because they're in it to serve and protect. "I'll just not go, lol" equals "some drug lord will take over the city and rape and pillage with impunity". They don't want that, and the super majority of citizens also doesn't want that.