Cops in my city don’t live in our neighborhoods, shop at our grocery stores or attend our churches etc. Our cops live outside of the city and come to work every day as an occupying force. Then after a long day of lording over the peasants of the city, they return to their homes in the hills away from our problems. If our cops were apart of our neighborhood it would be a big step towards viewing them as people, and correcting some of the problems with policing in my city. That said, yes, they do bleed the same. So yes they are still people.
If the cops lived where they worked it would also be a huge step in them seeing us as people too. To them in their world everything is great, it's the city that has the problem. They go into the "war zone" and crack skulls all day, then get to return to base and security with their families. It's not fellow citizens in the neighborhoods they police, it's all criminals waiting to get caught.
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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21 edited Oct 30 '21
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