• gregorum@lemm.ee
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          6 months ago

          I’d love to live in a world without gangs of armed, bigoted, corrupt psychopaths with extra rights and the ability to murder at will.

          Enjoy your shoe-shine flavored toothpaste

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              6 months ago

              Why would you think such a thing? Haiti is the exact opposite of what just described.

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            You do realise you’d trade one group, who have rules they mostly follow, and consequences they occasionally face, for multiple warring groups that have no rules, right?

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          Yeah I absolutely would.

          I rather have unarmed security guards protecting neighborhoods.

          I rather have trained armed swat teams when there’s a major assault happening.

          I rather have professional detectives doing investigations.

          I rather have expert specialists do wellness checks.

          Right now, those four are under the police force, and they solve everything with a gun. Police as a whole is a giant blob of unmanaged corruption.

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      6 months ago

      I bet if you offered any of these people a job as a police officer, they would stop all of their comments, accept the job, and act like they never said anything against law enforcement.

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          Not really. I had Reddit between 2011 and 2024. Most Lemmy users came over from Reddit.

          Anyway, why don’t you apply to work for your local law enforcement office?

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            Your account is 19 days old. Why would I go work for a systemically corrupt agency? Do you think that one person can change it?

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        Actually no, being an officer is a horrible job, and even where I live, it’s not very well paid.

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          Actually check out your state’s or provincial sunshine list. Being an officer pulls in a 6 figure salary when you include the overtime scams they run.

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              75 dollars an hour to play on your phone parked outside a construction site. Pretty great deal.

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                Ironically, that’s what I’m doing right now, as I’m on break.

                It’s not really a win if the only way to make decent money is to work a huge amount of overtime though, I quite like having a personal life.

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                  Just claim the overtime and go do whatever you want, whose going to stop you? The enforcers all have your back.

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              “Gee, I’d like to join a corrupt gang of psychopathic, neo-Nazi murders, but I do enjoy my free time…”

              So, the only reason you’re not a cop is because you’re lazy?

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        Becoming a cop isn’t hard… if any of these people wanted to be a cop they could easily become one but they don’t because they aren’t literall fucking monsters.