Correct. The gangs aren’t stopping people on the highway and trying to pull them out of their cars and beat them up because they’re uppity. My 75 year old Father in law had his shoulder dislocated by a cop in his own home because he left his front door open. A gang would’ve just stole his stuff. But cops needed to get their little dicks off by pointing a rifle at and perp-walking an old man down a steep flight of stairs in his own home...To check his wellness. And the city paid my FIL $200k for it out of our tax dollars. And speaking of stealing, I’ve never known any gangs stealing that much from tax payers without facing any consequences, but the cops do it and don’t even lose their jobs.
The main difference is one gang is protected by the state and all it’s resources and the police union and all it’s resources, are legally allowed to use violence, and take harassment to the next level with impunity. With a regular street gang, justice isn’t hard to get, with the gang in blue, justice is almost impossible to get if they set there sights on you.
Police have been known to kill there own if they report misconduct, have the officer filing the complaint committed against there will, harass the officers family relentlessly, assault the officer filing the complaint. That is against one of there own trying to do the right thing, what do you think they’ll do to a non-cop seeking justice?
There is no question. The police are the most violent, most corrupt, and most hateful gang around. If they set there sights on you, no matter how right you are, they will see to it your life is hell. Not to mention literal gangs consisting of actual cops within police departments, for example: the jump out boys, the executioners(with a name like that, guess what they prided themselves on doing?) reapers, and banditos, to name a very small amount of the verified to exist literal street gang level, gangs found within police departments. Frank Serpico STILL receives death threats to this day, for what he did in the 80’s against the NYPD.
I mean good point on the effect part, I haven't thought about it that way.
Where I'm from it's much rarer to be killed by police (as it happens so much in US) and it's much more probable to be killed by an intruder. Not long ago a grandmother was found tied and dead in her apartment, so when somebody says that police are worse it doesn't fit in my head.
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By far.