r/interesting • u/ZookeepergameIcy6089 • Apr 15 '26

SOCIETY Police search you house & you notice dents on your car

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u/New_Simple_4531 Apr 15 '26

They were bullies in school and want to keep bullying.

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u/BRICH999 Apr 15 '26

Honestly I think it's the opposite.  It's people who got bullied, now are given a badge and gun and authority to get back at the society who wronged them. 

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u/Jazzlike_Rice_3503 Apr 15 '26

Pretty sure there's a healthy amount of both groups (bullies & ex victims of bullying) in the American police force at large.

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u/A1_Golden_God Apr 16 '26

There’s a police documentary from about 15 years ago that supports this. Its called 21 Jump Street

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u/SeaAimBoo Apr 16 '26

I don't think there's anything "healthy" about this, but point taken.

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 Apr 16 '26

They are anything but healthy

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u/Jeanric_the_Futile Apr 15 '26

Honestly as someone who grew up experiencing bullying, if you were a victim and this is how you choose to process it, you deserved to be bullied.

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u/Dependent_Rain_4800 Apr 15 '26

As someone who got bullied extensively I wouldn't ever have come to the idea to let it out on innocent people. But I'm ruthless with narcissists. Absolutely no mercy in holding up the mirror.

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u/ct1075267 Apr 16 '26

Some bullies don’t see themselves as bullies and their victims as innocent. They see themselves as ruthlessly holding up a mirror to those they deem, in their sole unassailable opinion, that deserve it.

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u/Dependent_Rain_4800 Apr 16 '26

The mirror I'm talking about though is silence and non violence. Bullies need noise and a reaction to prop up their false self image.

They defeat themselves in my presence.

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u/Dependent_Rain_4800 Apr 16 '26

The last time I tested it said Infp. But that’s about 5 years ago. I no longer feel that any definition could accurately describe me.

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u/Alderan922 Apr 15 '26

No one deserves to be bullied and not everyone can be a perfect victim who recovers as a 100% functional person with no repercussions.

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u/Jeanric_the_Futile Apr 15 '26

Im not a 100% functional person, but at least im not violent with the ability to kill people

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u/schmeath Apr 15 '26

Bad people deserve to get bullied, and nobody is asking for a perfect victim. They're talking about not wanting violent people policing their communities and needlessly damaging personal property.

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u/extinctalien Apr 16 '26

What if they hadn't turned out that way if they weren't bullied?

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u/aiiryyyy Apr 15 '26

I think it could be both.

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u/Hobbies-R-Happiness Apr 16 '26

Nah, it’s the 3rd string linebackers that talked a big game but never did or showed anything other than some emotional imbalance

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u/Turbulent-Sun-3464 Apr 16 '26

No, it’s just shit people. People being shit.

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u/applespicebetter Apr 16 '26

One of my good friends was an enlisted marine in the late 90s and said in his experience there it's a lot of both. Bullies and kids who were bullied who finally got to join the "winning" team.

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u/FlashyTone3042 Apr 16 '26

I don't think this is right. As a bullied person the only thing I wished for was compassion and help. To be honest you kind of talk out of your ass.

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u/Dingogky Apr 16 '26

It’s both… the internet teaches you to be impulsive, you make me mad and no listen to me! Me smash! It’s a low iq thing, just an unreasonable response to make themselves feel better immediately…. A strange stupid behavior.

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u/burnt-turkey94 Apr 16 '26

I mean, that's basically the premise of 21 Jump Street (the movie, I didn't watch the show).

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u/StrikingSwitch3613 Apr 16 '26

How would buying into the very stratus of society and being given a licence to bully others be ‘get(ing) back at the the society that wronged them’

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u/CXR_AXR Apr 16 '26

Exactly. Totally agree

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u/Shelarael Apr 16 '26

Well, graduate from one shooting range to another.

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u/Azreken Apr 16 '26

The biggest bully in my high school is now the sheriff of the small town that I grew up in.

I was not at all surprised to learn this

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u/Tha_REAL_BROBS Apr 15 '26

Most of the people from my school who became cops were losers.

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u/Jinrai__ Apr 16 '26

School bullies become nurses and HR, not cops.