Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by Aqua_Geek on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:17PM
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"Racism is not getting worse, it's getting filmed." — Will Smith
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by throwaway894345 on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:05PM
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That joke doesn't support the claim that police aren't a force for good, only that they have been a force for less good for blacks. Of course no one is better off by "abolishing the police" (unless you're a fan of a global dark age).
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by nxc18 on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:05PM
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this argument always comes up and its complete and utter bullshit. Please think about what you say for more than a half second before you say it.
Police are not that effective, society does not completely collapse in their absence, and there needs to be a cost-benefit analysis done for even things that obviously seem good. When police murder and assault people regularly, using military equipment, that's a serious cost to take into consideration.
Overpolicing has serious consequences, and the evidence suggests it actually increases crime. When NYC cops stopped proactive policing, _serious crime decreased_.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/nyc-cops-did-a-work-...
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by throwaway894345 on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:34PM
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> This argument always comes up and its complete and utter bullshit. Please think about what you say for more than a half second before you say it.
"I'm not here in good faith" is an even shorter way of saying the same thing.
>Honey, did you see this? - Apparently, the Police have been beating up negroes like hotcakes!
The special he mentioned this joke was aired in 2000. I bring this up because it highlights that for some people the police haven't been a force of good for a long time, and smartphones and social media are forcing people to confront that fact. There has been many arguments that people have always been making about how the police in this country been over militarized despite have far fewer training than actual soldiers, and these weapons built for use in the middle east are being used against the poor in the US.
IMO, it's not that the police is now more overall a force of "evil", is that there always been systemically corrupt, and you have just been to well off to notice.