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In July 2011 in Norway a man in a cop uniform and flashing a cop badge killed 77 people. The whole idea of âtrust law enforcementâ, âcomplyâ etc is a sick joke.
There are often reports in the news here about elderly being robbed by people claiming to be police. Usually reported with the victim-blaming slant that âwell of course they shouldâve called their local precint and waited in line on the phone for hours and gotten their badge numbers and verified them before opening the doorâ.
Really? What happened to âwell of course they shouldâve complied and not have to suffer police brutalityâ...?
None of this is to diminish the brutality of real cops. Like the Golden State Killer for example, an EPD police officer while he was committing his Visalia crimes. Itâs just to add an oft dismissed or ignored layer to the police debate.
âBut not all cops are killersâ, some say. âModerate policemen have a responsibility to watch their own police community and stop this radicalization process.â They say âI donât criticize all police, just âpolicistsâ, those who dress in those old-fashioned uniforms, those who carry weapons, those who want to turn all of Europe to a âEuropolisâ police state.â
Thatâs twisted. Policing is a system built on trust, and that trust has been eroded again and again and again and again and I donât know how to ever restore it.
And yes, police strike disproportionately against black and latino citizens, and women. Iâm not trying to take away from or diminish how utterly fucked up that is, or neglect to say explicitly that black lives do matter.
There are two ways a society can set this up:
I would like it if violence overall was decreased. If a monopoly on violence can help with that, itâs good, but thatâs a big iff, and this group has been undermining its supposed legitimacy.