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This seems like an unnecessary service that is largely built off the unhinged fervor of dedicated activists. Cops are not bad people, by and large. They have be
by throwawaysea 5y ago
This seems like an unnecessary service that is largely built off the unhinged fervor of dedicated activists. Cops are not bad people, by and large. They have been unfairly demonized this last year and in some past years, based off lone anecdotal examples. Remember, the police in America literally have hundreds of millions of interactions with citizens each year. There are very very few incidents of bad or unjust policing as a percentage of those interactions. In fact, I would argue the system is closer to being perfect than it is to being broken.
So what's the actual utility of this service? Those who have good experiences with cops will ignore it and not use it, while a small number of vocal and dedicated persons with an axe to grind may use it. At best, it will provide a biased perspective and open up avenues of abuse.
- dane-pgp 5y ago> Cops are not bad people, by and large. That may be true, but I can't help imagining a good cop seeing this and saying "Hey, that's not fair, you're watching us all the time, collecting all this information in a permanent record, just waiting to portray something innocent in a negative light and requiring us to clear our names." to which the response of the average citizens should be, "Right, now do you see why mass surveillance is bad?"