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Bad Police are Small People with Big Guns and Over-Inflated Egos
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"We often give caveats to our criticisms of police in order to shield ourselves from counter-critique. We often wrap our condemnation of rogue cops by saying, 'No. Not all cops are bad.' These obligatory disclaimers are, in their own way, part of the problem. We are afraid of saying what we know to be true for fear of being seen as too radical or harboring hatred of the police. Well, you can think what you want: so long as the police forces around the United States allow small men with big guns, Napolean complexes and over-inflated egos to serve as police officers, we will continue to see the endemic police brutality that is so normal in our nation." ...
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SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: Police are not expected to "protect and serve" individuals. They are expected to "protect and serve" communities. |
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Millwright66
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| One thing I can guarantee. If we continue to criticize, ostracize, and persecute out LEOs we'll only get gutter sweepings to wear the badge. |
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| "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? [...] The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (Chapter 1 "Arrest") |
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