Pigs [cops] are violent thugs, they deserve no sympathy.
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Some cops are violent thugs. Some are not. The problem is that the non-thugs are expected to cover and close ranks for the thugs.
The issue is not police, the issue is inability to self-regulate.
I would say any cop who steps across the thin blue line and outs an abusive thug deserves all our sympathy and support.
@AnonymousCoward #27773
yep, that we should, and honestly maybe we should instill a different kind of work culture in the police force, one that DOESN’T tell them to shut up and close ranks to protect their own, like outing a officer who has abused his/her position of power.
@Peacemonger373 #27778
A lot of that comes from the nature of the police force in general: police come from two segments, those who want to make the world a better place through enforcement of society's laws, and those who wish to have power over others with their position.
The former group are already committing a fallacious appeal to law, and the latter an appeal to authority. Neither group has a good justification for enforcing the law as it stands.
Sure, you get the occasional social contract theorist, but they don't last long surrounded by either of the other fractions.
This you end up with the assholes, and those who protect them because they see the law as more important and assume the failure of officers in public light damages the rule of law.
What would actually fix the problem, requiring all officers to be philosophically literate moreso than legally inclined, would never fly, because then officers would do what is right for everyone rather than merely what is right for those in power (keeping the poors down).
I do not think I can add meaningfully to what @AnonymousCoward said beyond asserting that there are those who take up the badge to be society’s shield upholding individual rights and those who use it to shield only themselves acting as the enforcer of what they perceive to be society’s norms hammering down the individual who sticks out.
And that there is a vast gulf of respect I feel between those two categories.
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