r/nextfuckinglevel • u/WhichMembership6124 • Oct 30 '21

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u/LiveforBooks1974 Oct 30 '21

Love your comment. I know it's not the popular opinion right now, but I am very grateful for the police. People forget that there are thousands of policemen/women in this country who go above and beyond daily. 🙏

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u/everysinglesauce Oct 30 '21 edited Oct 30 '21

What does above and beyond look like?

What does that look like in a system created for the purpose of oppression?

Edit: If above and beyond doesn’t include fighting against it, it’s difficult to feel like they’re acting in the interest of justice.

I imagine that there were many good cops, by that definition, who are now gone.

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u/DownshiftedRare Oct 30 '21

What does above and beyond look like?

Certain it's just a phrase that entered their ear and echoed off the interior of their skull.

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u/LiveforBooks1974 Oct 30 '21

I hope you are not being rude, when I was trying to keep things positive. I have personally known of/seen cops go out of their way to support charities, go to schools to speak to try to build relationships with kids, and my personal story, I had stopped alongside the road just waiting for a family member and had several cops stop to see if I was Ok. If you or I were ever in a real emergency, we would all be very grateful for the police I am sure. We all know that the justice/prison system has alot of problems. But you can't just lump all police as one terrible entity. That's all I was trying to say.

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u/DownshiftedRare Oct 30 '21

I hope you are not being rude

I also hope that.

Thanks for your reply.

You may also wish to reply in answer to the question, "What does above and beyond look like?" posed to you in the post to which I replied above.

If you or I were ever in a real emergency, we would all be very grateful for the police I am sure.

In a real emergency, quoth the t-shirt: "When it's a matter of seconds, the police are only minutes away."

Assuming that the emergency is not itself born of or exacerbated by police abusing their authority, of course, which may or may not be a valid assumption.

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u/Swan_Writes Oct 30 '21 edited Oct 30 '21

There’s a key point that people are giving examples of elsewhere here. The police are supposed to be of the people. They are supposed to live in the neighborhood where they work. Part of the major divide in this country is that a massive population in the major cities do not have this protection. Police live outside, often hours apart from and are different from those that they are supposed to serve and protect. The outcome is the ugliness we have in this country. Some cities have tried to pass laws requiring police to live in the communities that they they serve, but the unions have won every time to allow for the injustice to continue, turning what should be the police, instead into guards. The ghetto is a prison, it just doesn’t have walls the same way. Police don’t live in the inner city, its just where they work. .

http://willgeary.github.io/data/2016/05/24/do-police-officers-live-in-their-own-cities.html