“These Colors Don’t Run (Into the Building While Kids Are Getting Shot)”
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Pizza delivery men have a more dangerous job. And you know that thin blue line you think is stopping society from chaos? We'll it's society that's holding the blue pen. You work for us.
If conservatives weren’t trying to be racist, they’d have let Puerto Rico in ages ago and picked up some more senators, which is why Democrats never seem particularly interested in pushing the issue.
I was always under the impression that the D’s would pick up seats if PR became a state, that GOP assholery like Trump’s treatment of PR after the hurricane, meant that it was a sure thing for Ds. But apparently it is WAY more complicated than that, as most things are – someone once broke PR politics down for me but I forgot everything except, “outcome would be uncertain.”
The outcome would be very uncertain. If you’ve ever talked to someone from PR, it seems to be a very split opinion. They already get citizenship, they don’t have to pay federal taxes but they do get some federal tax money spent on them. They have local representation but they do not have true federal representation. This really isn’t an issue of Republican Vs Democrat as more as it is what the people of PR want.
Yes, tell me more about how brave cops are. You know, the cops that, in the US, have no legal obligation to protect you, to know the law, or enforce the law.
One might as well speak of brave taxi drivers for all the relevance bravery has to the job. A vocation with more injuries and fatalities than being a LEO, I must note.
The worst part is, I'm far less anti-cop than most Lemmy users, probably. I'm convinced that there are a great many good cops and good departments, despite the decay of responsibility of the American police (and their often-unsavory origins as strikebreakers). I also believe that professional policing forces, while not technically vital, are an extremely useful service that should attract men of honor and be regarded as such.
But repeating copaganda is not the way to empower the good cops out there. The way you empower good cops is by making more good cops - and you make more good cops by creating strong institutions of accountability and using them. Empowering cops without accountability is not a way to make good enforcers of the law - it's a way to make thugs out of ordinary men.
According to the most recent data available (2020-2021), the most common causes of cops dying were covid and vehicular accidents. Both of which have been directly or indirectly self-inflicted via reckless behaviour in many if not the majority of cases.
In conclusion: fuck off with your Hollywood fantasies of heroic cops doing one of the most dangerous and important jobs to protect the rest of us, lickspittle, that’s not real. Cops murdering and otherwise unlawfully abusing people with impunity is.
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