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It's honestly mind boggling that we grant such tremendous grace to abuses of power from folks who don't consistently experience any form of accredited training,
by badrequest 4y ago
It's honestly mind boggling that we grant such tremendous grace to abuses of power from folks who don't consistently experience any form of accredited training, and who much of the time have been on the job an amount of time that would make them an apprentice in any other profession.
- giraffe_lady 4y ago[flagged]
- badrequest 4y agoFWIW I agree, I just think the only even semi-reasonable argument for granting them such authority would rooted in the supposition that they're at least well-trained, but they don't even have that.
- femiagbabiaka 4y agoThat's right, or almost right. The training is actually the problem, that's where the indoctrination starts. All you need to do is hear the rhetoric of the Thin Blue Line folks like David Grossman (who is very popular) to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VxvixMQPbE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VxvixMQPbE. They're being trained on "killing", on "combat", on escalation and self-protection, not enforcement of the law.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoYes agreed with all of this.
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoHalf an hour into it. This guy is a fucking weirdo and authoritarian.
- commandlinefan 4y ago> Their job is to beat the shit out of and terrorize certain people I know that this isn't actually true, but I fear that having it repeated so often by people with agendas to push will end up making it into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- kevviiinn 4y agoThe purpose of a system is what it does