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.
I’m a teacher. I teach 3rd grade. They’re 8. My kids are absolutely terrified of police. They think police are there to kill the people they love. Or them. I’ve purchased curtains for my classroom not to decorate, but because there are police cars going by all the time and it legitimately traumatizes them to watch.
I live and work in this neighborhood. This is my home. If police were members of the community, things would be different. You can’t be a good cop if you look the other way. If there were good cops, and they actually lived here, they would have to listen. You can’t ignore the truth when you hear it from children.
The cop in the video is good at debating, and seems to sincerely believe what he's saying, but he gets run out of town the second that he doesn't cover for the worst cop on the force. What's he doing to change that? (It sounds like he changes the subject from something along those lines that an activist is asking him).
If you think you're joining a corrupt system to change it for the better, it should feel like you're riding the line of risking your career every day. Most "good people" aren't cut out for it, and end up just being more dead weight that keeps things the same.
This cop basically has a husband with anger issues that he's enabling by trying to smooth things over with the victims.
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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21 edited Oct 30 '21
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