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There is a pretty huge difference between corrections officers working for the department of corrections and police officers working for the police department.

by D13Fd 4y ago

ddulaney 4y ago
Depends on the jurisdiction. Where I am (Jefferson County, KY), corrections officers are routinely used as additional back-up during protests or other times when the police feel they need more manpower. They are also routinely hired to work as security when they are off duty, where they wear their uniforms and are allowed to make arrests. In my jurisdiction, they are legally a type of sworn law enforcement officer and regularly appear in public in ways that are more-or-less indistinguishable from police officers.
Spivak 4y ago
Yeah, caged vs free range.
crawfordcomeaux 4y ago
And a huge similarity: they are given power over people and routinely use this power to harm, rather than help heal. Our 4-yr old has police trauma from police coming to bother us about them playing outside naked because traumatized older people ignorant of other cultures won't stop calling them. Instead of visiting those people, they harass a child and parents for something that's legal. The child has nightmare of police shooting them. This isn't because of misunderstanding, but because the nature of these systems and the sick sm cultures involved. Not talking about it persists it. Trying to keep conversations strictly on-topic is a form of putting on blinders. It's also a neurotypical conversation style.
- D13Fd 4y ago
  > And a huge similarity: they are given power over people and routinely use this power to harm, rather than help heal. Our 4-yr old has police trauma from police coming to bother us about them playing outside naked That's horrible and I'm really sorry to hear it. I've let our daughter play outside naked and I'd be absolutely livid if law enforcement bothered us about it. But that still has nothing to do with jails scanning mail (or even police "corruption").
  - crawfordcomeaux 4y ago
    It's literally about having power over people, which is coming through the monopoly on violence, which is being exercised by scanning mail.

There is a pretty huge difference between corrections officers working for the department of corrections and police officers working for the police department.

by D13Fd 4y ago

There is a pretty huge difference between corrections officers working for the department of corrections and police officers working for the police department.

ddulaney 4y ago

Depends on the jurisdiction. Where I am (Jefferson County, KY), corrections officers are routinely used as additional back-up during protests or other times when the police feel they need more manpower. They are also routinely hired to work as security when they are off duty, where they wear their uniforms and are allowed to make arrests. In my jurisdiction, they are legally a type of sworn law enforcement officer and regularly appear in public in ways that are more-or-less indistinguishable from police officers.

Spivak 4y ago

Yeah, caged vs free range.

crawfordcomeaux 4y ago

And a huge similarity: they are given power over people and routinely use this power to harm, rather than help heal. Our 4-yr old has police trauma from police coming to bother us about them playing outside naked because traumatized older people ignorant of other cultures won't stop calling them. Instead of visiting those people, they harass a child and parents for something that's legal. The child has nightmare of police shooting them. This isn't because of misunderstanding, but because the nature of these systems and the sick sm cultures involved. Not talking about it persists it. Trying to keep conversations strictly on-topic is a form of putting on blinders. It's also a neurotypical conversation style.

D13Fd 4y ago
> And a huge similarity: they are given power over people and routinely use this power to harm, rather than help heal. Our 4-yr old has police trauma from police coming to bother us about them playing outside naked That's horrible and I'm really sorry to hear it. I've let our daughter play outside naked and I'd be absolutely livid if law enforcement bothered us about it. But that still has nothing to do with jails scanning mail (or even police "corruption").
- crawfordcomeaux 4y ago
  It's literally about having power over people, which is coming through the monopoly on violence, which is being exercised by scanning mail.