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Americans have stopped trusting each other. People don’t trust police. They don’t trust teachers. Two jobs that were the most respected and bedrocks of communit

Americans have stopped trusting each other. People don’t trust police. They don’t trust teachers. Two jobs that were the most respected and bedrocks of communities. These jobs traded low pay for community respect. Americans have to stop seeing differences and fighting petty political fights and pointing fingers.

XorNot 4y ago
It is a hell of a statement to think that the police lost the trust of the public unfairly. The police lost the trust of the public exactly by their own actions.
- ajmurmann 4y ago
  And sticking up for "the bad apples" seems still prioritized over doing the right thing and gaining the trust back
- etempleton 4y ago
  I do not think the lack of trust in police is unfair. Police brutality is an issue in the US that disproportionately impacts minorities. However, I also do not think the response to police brutality has been at all constructive. What have we achieved in terms of lasting police reform? My point is simply that police has been a respected pillar of society. Police falling out of favor has very real consequences. When people do not trust police they turn to others for protection and justice.
nus07 4y ago
You do the realize that the tech industry (us) and the financial services industry are largely responsible for gutting of this. Disrupt became the buzzword for the last few years. Everyone should code, laptops in the classroom, defund the police and all of that is largely responsible for all this. But we are never to blame because the tech industry are like Swiss bankers. We are just the means.
- dehrmann 4y ago
  Could you elaborate on the connection? I don't see how "everyone should code" leads to societal distrust. I do see how "defund the police" does, but I don't see how tech or finance was really responsible that movement.
- ajmurmann 4y ago
  Wasn't "defund the police" a reaction to the existing division between the police force and large parts of the population?
1270018080 4y ago
Trying to both sides conspiracy theories about teachers?

XorNot 4y ago

It is a hell of a statement to think that the police lost the trust of the public unfairly. The police lost the trust of the public exactly by their own actions.

ajmurmann 4y ago
And sticking up for "the bad apples" seems still prioritized over doing the right thing and gaining the trust back
etempleton 4y ago
I do not think the lack of trust in police is unfair. Police brutality is an issue in the US that disproportionately impacts minorities. However, I also do not think the response to police brutality has been at all constructive. What have we achieved in terms of lasting police reform? My point is simply that police has been a respected pillar of society. Police falling out of favor has very real consequences. When people do not trust police they turn to others for protection and justice.

nus07 4y ago

You do the realize that the tech industry (us) and the financial services industry are largely responsible for gutting of this. Disrupt became the buzzword for the last few years. Everyone should code, laptops in the classroom, defund the police and all of that is largely responsible for all this. But we are never to blame because the tech industry are like Swiss bankers. We are just the means.

dehrmann 4y ago
Could you elaborate on the connection? I don't see how "everyone should code" leads to societal distrust. I do see how "defund the police" does, but I don't see how tech or finance was really responsible that movement.
ajmurmann 4y ago
Wasn't "defund the police" a reaction to the existing division between the police force and large parts of the population?

1270018080 4y ago

Trying to both sides conspiracy theories about teachers?