Police officers always seem to align with the interests of the capitalist (Epstein) class. What is it about that job that attracts so many people with contempt for the working class?
The answer is quite mundane. I’ve a few friends in a (non-US) police force. The answer is that the rich/powerful are annoying as hell to go against.
They either know the law, or pay someone to know it for them. They can make obviously illegal things legal on paper. They can also nitpick everything. E.g. spending £5K on lawyers to get out of a £100 fine, since they don’t want to get the points. Any procedural mistakes, or paperwork errors can kill a case, or at least drag it out for years.
They also have contacts that can apply pressure. When their wife knows your boss’s, boss’s boss’s wife, they can make your life and career VERY uncomfortable.
End result, most officers learn to pick their battles with the rich and powerful. They will make your life hard, and will get away without everything being perfect.
In practice this can easily turn into taking the easy road. Even when the rich aren’t even technically in the right.
All of the answers before this are wrong. It’s their vein attempt to show us that they’re better than us. And that’s it. They’re so uncomfortable with themselves they they have to take you out on you. They believe they are part of the club.
The job description is literally to protect the powers that be and in exchange get your own authority to power-trip on too. It is fundamentally a reactionary job that should not exist, and neither should the system they protect.
They’re uneducated but handed a living wage job and they are usually white men with narcissistic and psychopathic traits. The culture of entitlement and superiority within these ranks rewards the most narcissistic and psychopathic among them in the power dynamic within the fostered culture. This system then reinforces the racialized hierarchy within the self serving capitalist power structure and solidifies the tiers of oppression.
Police officers always seem to align with the interests of the capitalist (Epstein) class. What is it about that job that attracts so many people with contempt for the working class?
I would say he was prophetic. But a lot of us realized what he did during COVID. Had a minute to think and pay attention.
Good ol Socko.
Predators protect predators.
Stupidity.
Cops are almost entirely made up of people who were too stupid to get a white collar job.
As a blue collar guy, I think they’re too stupid to be blue collar workers.
Edit- I had to do a 5-year apprenticeship, pass a state certification test and do continual education to maintain the certification.
How long is the average American police academy and how challenging is it?
The rich give the violent dullards and chest-thumpers the imprint of honorability.
The average cop imagines himself a Knight Protector of the Realm when he is, odds on, Barney Fife with a spouse who flinches.
The answer is quite mundane. I’ve a few friends in a (non-US) police force. The answer is that the rich/powerful are annoying as hell to go against.
They either know the law, or pay someone to know it for them. They can make obviously illegal things legal on paper. They can also nitpick everything. E.g. spending £5K on lawyers to get out of a £100 fine, since they don’t want to get the points. Any procedural mistakes, or paperwork errors can kill a case, or at least drag it out for years.
They also have contacts that can apply pressure. When their wife knows your boss’s, boss’s boss’s wife, they can make your life and career VERY uncomfortable.
End result, most officers learn to pick their battles with the rich and powerful. They will make your life hard, and will get away without everything being perfect.
In practice this can easily turn into taking the easy road. Even when the rich aren’t even technically in the right.
All of the answers before this are wrong. It’s their vein attempt to show us that they’re better than us. And that’s it. They’re so uncomfortable with themselves they they have to take you out on you. They believe they are part of the club.
Is it Vein or is it an arterior motive?
That would explain the massive overlap in domestic violence.
Acab, obviously.
But do you seriously not understand why cops follow orders from politicians and not citizens?
We just ignored the part where we cared about who our politicians were.
The job description is literally to protect the powers that be and in exchange get your own authority to power-trip on too. It is fundamentally a reactionary job that should not exist, and neither should the system they protect.
They’re uneducated but handed a living wage job and they are usually white men with narcissistic and psychopathic traits. The culture of entitlement and superiority within these ranks rewards the most narcissistic and psychopathic among them in the power dynamic within the fostered culture. This system then reinforces the racialized hierarchy within the self serving capitalist power structure and solidifies the tiers of oppression.
a paycheck :/
The Epstein class is not just capitalist. Stop sewing bullshit.
It’s capitalists and people in power which generally serve the capitalist class.
It’s also sowing
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I’m gonna say “arrest is unwarranted. Just kick ‘em out or end their speaking time.”
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Nah, there are options between “nothing” and “arrest”. Even for Nazis.
I wouldn’t be sad about some Nazi-punching though.
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Kick them out?
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🙄
Well at this point you can escalate, since they escalated first after being kicked out. But you don’t start by arresting.
You picked the least app username I’ve ever seen
…but you’ll happily spend multiple posts arguing about it, even though a link to it was right there in the post.
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YouTube doesn’t work for you? Second link down.
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I’m waiting for videos of cops fighting against Nazis instead of protecting them.
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