alt Hacker NewsIt has nothing to do with the cops as individuals and some of them being “nice” or not. It has everything to do with the normalization and systemization. If you come to Nyc and live here you will see that the “cops are bearueacrats with guns” stigma is pretty much true. A lot of the lower crime areas have cops looking for a minor infraction to write up a ticket (often a desk appearance ticket that usually gets thrown out by the courts). They will attempt to stop and frisk you even though you can deny it and even though it’s illegal. So here we have a system of pointless ticketing because stops and tickets are how they get a promotion. In high crime neighborhoods they take this tactic to new levels.
So no, I dont consider cops good people because as soon as one gets caught they back each other up. As I stated previously they soured their own image with decades of backing bad actor cops up and normalizing bad behavior.
Left handed people (I’m one of them) don’t have a history of systematic violence and abuse of peoples rights as enabled by the government. Left handed people dont have a union to corral around and get protections when they murder someone. Left handed people often don’t kill someone or steal their belongings then turn around and say “I was just doing my job, give us $1B more to build a surveillance dragnet and bail out our bad actors”.
Left handed people don’t violently kettle and beat protestors asking for basic reform of left handed people.
> All Tow Truck Drivers Are Bad. They should be towing each other for parking in illegal spots.
Fun fact tow truck drivers have recently become filled with bad actors because cops do not enforce traffic law in Nyc and have no problem with tow truck drivers scamming people: https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-puts-tow-truck-operators-on-n...
> All Doctors are bad too
My doctor does his best to double dip on telehealth + “come in for tests”. Because a lot of clinics have devolved into sending health data to labs. What should be a “come in for tests” ends with an additional $75 telehealth call where my doctor reads the results over the phone.
I personally don’t think you’re going to convince anyone saying ACAB that “cOpS ArE aCtUaLlY nIcE gUyS oNcE YoU sHrUg oFf SySteMatIc StAtE VioLeNcE aNd vIoLaTiNG RiGhtS tHeY eNAbLeD fOr DecADes! jUsT iGnOrE tHe pOliCe stAtE.”
And we havent even begun to discuss “civil forfeiture” theft scam that is relative to this article.
All Cops Are Basterds
It seems like you are very invested in this, and a discussion here is probably not going to change that, nor my opinion.
Yes, there are a lot of bad cops. No, not every single cop is bad.
(You should see my other comment about Civil Asset Forfeiture, where you will see that I am aware of it, and it is used in evil ways.)
I would never condemn a good lone cop in a small town who has not seen any illegal, corrupt, or otherwise anything less than professional behavior by neighboring jurisdictions, as you seem to.
My default opinion of people is not that of hate.
Nor do I judge people by prejudices.
Since another user here (who made up something to try to make me look bad) picked on my username, I think it is more rational to judge individuals by their own actions and not judge people you've never met by the actions of others.