• NightLily
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    441 year ago

    Wow… I just don’t understand how American law works and this just shows it multiple times throughout the thing…

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Cops in the US are lazy and entitled as fuck. They also don’t represent or defend the working class; they exist to protect the rich and uphold the status quo. It also doesn’t help that the US still doesn’t take online harassment as serious as it should.

      • @linearchaos
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        61 year ago

        we have plenty of horrible people who are cops, and we have plenty of good people who are cops that turn to blind eye because they prioritize their lives over the minorities the bad cops are being s*** heads to. any truly good people that would be willing to turn in bad cops end up being ostracized and leaving service. So all we end up with are bad cops and indifferent cops.

        Even with all above stated it’s a thankless position where you are underpaid to put your life on the line or a regular basis. The US criminal system is designed to create reoffenders, so the people trying to evade or kill the cops have experience doing so. Everybody’s in a hurry to arm each other to the gills guns pour out of the streets like water. We couldn’t even install good police reform until we start tackling the injustice in the criminal system.

        It’s all broken and greed and corruption and politics. And it’s in a downward spiral for profit.

        • @[email protected]
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          231 year ago

          Even with all above stated it’s a thankless position where you are underpaid to put your life on the line or a regular basis.

          Cops where I live (Seattle) are paid well and they still do fuck-all. It’s a thankless position because they’ve done everything they can to earn the contempt of regular people and precious little too earn our respect. There are lots of jobs where people are paid less and get assaulted more, and those people still do their jobs. Cops really have no excuse; they act the way they do simply because they’re allowed to get away with it, and then they get butthurt when people have the nerve to ask for some accountability.

          • Drusas
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            101 year ago

            Hello, fellow Seattleite!

            Anecdote time: Yesterday morning, someone walking their dog found the body of a dead man around 10am. Around 3am, someone from that area called police to report the sound of shots fired. The police did not respond to the call until the body was reported at 10.

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              I saw a post today on Reddit about someone in Seattle whose home was invaded by their neighbors. They had a bunch of property destroyed, had a gun pointed at them, and then got pistol whipped. The cops showed up and asked questions but made no move to do anything about the neighbors. Fucking useless.

        • ZeroCool
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          61 year ago

          we have plenty of horrible people who are cops, and we have plenty of good people who are cops that turn to blind eye because they prioritize their lives over the minorities the bad cops are being s*** heads to. any truly good people that would be willing to turn in bad cops end up being ostracized and leaving service. So all we end up with are bad cops and indifferent cops.

          You’re just describing bad cops.

    • @PostmodernPythia
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      111 year ago

      American law works however the people with money and power decide it does in this 5-minute stretch. It’s meant to be inscrutable.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      My sister was being sexually harassed online by a guy online for years. He would cyberstalk everything she did and she then tried to get the police to help after she couldn’t handle it anymore.

      The cop that came to our house blamed my sister for it. Told her she must have done something to get this guys attention even though she never met him or spoke to him before.

      I told another person I knew about the guy and she messaged him. The guy sent her a dick pic. She was 15.

      If you wanna watch a half hour documentary about how pathetic the guy is, then please watch this video with over 500k views about him. It’s crazy to think my sister called the cops on the guy over a decade ago and because of that one cop, the guy was able to so much bad he got half a million views online for it.

      https://youtu.be/afdRKnEwujg?si=7T2eJoCONVmMNBUL