• teamevil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fucking gypsy cops. Police I ions should be banned, if you fucked up your other union job and killed someone you’d need a new career. This reckless idiot gets to keep hurting.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Can we find a better term? I like the ‘gypsy cops’ concept, but the word ‘gypsy’ is considered to be offensive by the Roma people it initially and still often describes.

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          1 year ago

          Not bad. We could also do ‘traveling cops,’ sort of like ‘traveling nurses’ but with a lot more violence.

          • waz@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            How about “vagrant cops”?

            I particularly like it because the definition I found online described a vagrant as “One who lives on the streets or constitutes a public nuisance” which is strangely fitting.

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              1 year ago

              And vagrants don’t generally stay in one place all the time. It also turns the term back on them. Very nice!

      • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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        I’ve always heard “wandering cops.” Makes me imagine someone having a pleasant stroll on a sunny morning, maybe whistling a tune, chewing a doughnut, looking for someone to beat up or kill.