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Modern day Frank Serpico. I don't know why people in the comments are surprised this exists. I am sure there are many honest people in the police forces (around
by locallost 2y ago
Modern day Frank Serpico. I don't know why people in the comments are surprised this exists. I am sure there are many honest people in the police forces (around the world), but not all of them join because of some higher calling for justice and order. It's just a job, and jobs come with perks, in this case being above the law for minor things. If you disagree with that, then do something about it when you're in the position to.
- jeltz 2y agoMaybe not all of us are Americans?
- tialaramex 2y agoAlthough America does have a particular problem in that its police forces are descended from strike breakers and slave hunters, which is not a good recipe for how to achieve Peelian Policing†, it's far from alone in terms of the results. † Robert Peel was a Tory politician who founded the Metropolitan Police. Peel did a bunch of criminal reform stuff and one of his ideas was what we'd today called "Policing By Consent". As you may have noticed Britain's police don't (on the whole) have guns or armoured vehicles, they aren't paramilitaries or armed gangs, the only way they can be effective is if the community being policed consents to their activities and sees them as legitimate.
- locallost 2y agoI am not American either. What I wrote came as a direct observation and personal contact with non-american police, in two different countries.