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Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by sol_invictus on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:29PM (#23432049)
I’m sure there’s truth to it, but there are 800k police officers in the US. Are you ready to condemn the entire profession because of a handful of bad experiences?
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by the_pwner224 on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:37PM (#23432159)
Imagine a handcuffed, nondangerous, nonviolent person is literally murdered by strangulation by a cop, and three cops stand right there watching and do nothing and don't even appear to be fazed by what's going on.

If I was the cop watching, I would kick that asshole in the face and try to stop him. I'm sure if you asked 99% of normal people they would agree. But three cops literally watched and did nothing.

Many cops do not partake in evil, but almost every single American cop has no issue with letting the bad cops be evil. And that makes them evil too.

And these aren't a few occurrences; they have been happening frequently for decades. We only see them more often because of smartphones and people only got so mad about this occurrence because Coronavirus means everyone has too much spare time.

Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by sol_invictus on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:23PM (#23432741)
> every single American cop

based on what?

Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by sneak on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:15PM (#23434064)
Because it keeps happening for generations. The supposedly not-bad-apples have declined to clean house for at least 70 of policing in the USA.

At some point, decades ago, one must assume complicity.

Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by spoopyskelly on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:15PM (#23435096)
Imagine thinking he was not dangerous and not violent.
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by nemothekid on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:05PM (#23433958)
>Are you ready to condemn the entire profession because of a handful of bad experiences?

1, maybe 2, deaths are a "handful". Repeated, country wide, incidents is far more than a "handful".

How many people should be executed, in your opinion, before you are ready to condemn the entire institution?

Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by steffandroid on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:39PM (#23433698)
It's not so much the profession that's being condemned, more the institution.