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cess11today at 1:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's not a job. Every cop is a weirdo, they looked for opportunities to exert dominance over other people and decided against becoming social workers, medical practitioners or somesuch. Instead they joined a paramilitary force in peace time.


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palmoteatoday at 4:42 PM

> It's not a job. Every cop is a weirdo, they looked for opportunities to exert dominance over other people...

Stereotype much? Crime is actually a thing that happens. There are definitely cops that have the wrong attitude, but the function is necessary and warrant that kind of stereotyping especially if you want it to be better.

Like, here's a recipe for making policing worse: heap on so much steotyping and abuse onto the profession that you scare away all the people who aren't "look[ing] for opportunities to exert dominance over other people." Don't create a filter that only selects "bad apples."

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crimsoneertoday at 2:15 PM

God, why do americans assume everywhere is like their weird place. Most countries designed their police to very specifically be civilian.

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