Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by xwowsersx on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:07PM
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Right. It seems to me that many here are making sweeping and unsubstantiated generalizations. There are problems in policing that need to be addressed, but to extrapolate from that that police are not necessary and/or are a net decrease in safety is really a conflation of two separate issues.
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by ryanSrich on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:06PM
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> If you live in a place where people broadly do not support the police as an institution, you live in an odd place.
This could be the case. Tier 3 on the West Coast in the US. Everyone marching and protesting want the police either completely gone or heavily defunded to the point where they basically don't exist.
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by scarface74 on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:58PM
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If you live in a place where people broadly do not support the police as an institution, you live in an odd place.
Or in a community that is majority minority where they seem to get the brunt of “a few bad cops”.
How is it possible to conclude this? There have been polls the last few days where more than half of respondents of both parties support sending the National Guard to quash the rioting and looting, and a significant proportion of Democrat respondents think the Federal government should send the U.S. military to do the same.
If you live in a place where people broadly do not support the police as an institution, you live in an odd place.
Now, given recent events on the top of the national consciousness, there is broad concern that some very bad police tend to be protected in many police departments, but that's an entirely different opinion.