• boaratio@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Acab.

    I used to live in Baltimore and one of my neighbor’s was a cop, and the insane shit he would tell me would make you crap your pants. The shit he got away with, including pictures, would make you insane.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Even if cops were just a totally random selection of people from the general population, the fact that there is effectively little-to-no oversight, both in terms of law/institutions and in terms of social shame, means that anyone who isn’t a bastard before going in is extremely likely to become one, even absent all those other factors like cops becoming more insular and separated from the civilian population (“thin blue line”), the militarization of police (though no need for discipline, apparently), and sickened internal department policing cultures.

      And cops are generally picked from a pool even less suitable than a totally random selection from the general population.

      Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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      14 days ago

      I knew a state patrolman that was only punished for rape due to using his work car to transport the victim. They were not punished for the rape.

      My answer is “both”.

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        14 days ago

        My poor attempt at blurring the meaning of the word to imply the abuse is everywhere, home and in the nation.