Re:New Records Show the NYPD’s Favored Punishment: Less Vaca...
by ska on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:55PM
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> But maybe the ACAB crowd truly does think all cops are bastards.
I once had an interesting discussion with someone about this who had obviously thought about it a fair bit. Their position was that the institution is set up in such a way that your own intentions, regardless of how good, are systemically constrained into a narrow channel and the function of the job is to be "a bastard".
In other words, it wasn't a commentary of the nature of the people in the job, rather the nature of the job.
I once had an interesting discussion with someone about this who had obviously thought about it a fair bit. Their position was that the institution is set up in such a way that your own intentions, regardless of how good, are systemically constrained into a narrow channel and the function of the job is to be "a bastard".
In other words, it wasn't a commentary of the nature of the people in the job, rather the nature of the job.