• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “One bad apple spoils the bunch.”

    If you have 10,000 good cops, and 1,000 bad cops, you have 11,000 bad cops.

    Here’s the thing, a lot of people like to compare groups: cops vs druggies, cops vs gangbangers, cops vs antifa, etc.

    But of those groups:
    One was founded upon the finding and retrieval of slaves.
    One is paid for by taxes.
    One receives military augmentation via vehicles and weapons.
    One has a disproportionate kill rate amongst the general population of POC vs whites.
    One has an actual union + lobby.

    The police as they are are not a means to combat crime, they are a means to facilitate money for a very non-fair justice system that itself is rife with corruption.

    Edit: and while there are many cops who are “good people”, there are way more “good people” in other careers that don’t have carte blanche to kill.

    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s so weird how many people only use the first half of that phrase and use it to mean the exact opposite of what it means