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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by hertzrat on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:27PM (#25661956)
“The Police” is an over generalization. We shouldn’t ask the police to both intervene while also calling all of them fascists.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by eyelidlessness on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:51PM (#25662292)
We can’t identify a problem and demand a solution?
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by hertzrat on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:45PM (#25663716)
There are police officers who mean well and also officers who abuse their power; and police forces in different places have different institutional cultures and leadership, some of which are odious and some of which are good. "The Police" is a very broad term
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by eyelidlessness on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:30PM (#25664266)
Look, it’s not like the bad apples theory hasn’t been debated to death. If you’re uncomfortable with the “good apples” being tarnished by the “bad apples”, you’ll have a better impact by working to change the pervasive culture of:

- those “bad apples” being almost universally exempt from meaningful accountability proportional to their power and actions

- those “good apples” being unwilling to lead those accountability efforts, or even to just distance themselves from the “bad apples” to set a better example

- the clear and consistent bias overall in favor of these far right/fascist actors, including numerous times being caught on camera actively coordinating and ample video evidence of such bias in plain view

If “the police” don’t want to be viewed as a homogeneous pro-fascist force, they need to not act like one.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by chordalkeyboard on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:41PM (#25664411)
You contradict yourself when you identify a problem then ask that problem to kindly solve itself.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by philosopher1234 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:39PM (#25662930)
Yes we should, because both are apt.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by watwut on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:56PM (#25662366)
This amounts to argument that if cops feelings are hurt, it is ok for them to let things just happen. I mean, we expect more from snowflake sjws.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by bilbo0s on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:33PM (#25662047)
What we probably shouldn't have done was to hire the people we hired to be police in the first place. That was the mistake from which all others followed. If the people you hire to police your laws will only police the laws they want to police, or even worse, will only police the laws against a certain demographic of people, then you don't have a police force. And acting like these people are police inevitably leads to scenes like the one we see today.