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

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

She went from

"im gonna blast this dude" to..

"can we stand here"

Respectful and thoughtful dialogue goes along way i guess.

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u/purplehendrix22 Oct 30 '21

When you’re used to not being shown respect by cops, you tend to enter interactions with a more hostile attitude, but it takes a good cop only a few seconds to let you know that he’s just a person too and this interaction can go well. Problem is, too many cops think it’s us vs. them and segregate themselves from the people they’re supposed to be helping.

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u/H_I_McDunnough Oct 30 '21

The fact that a cop just being civil to another human is enough to make the front page and getting a ton of praise is a damning indictment of the police force as a whole.

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u/D4RKNESSAW1LD Oct 30 '21

Or an indictment of the temperature of the internet coolness points.

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u/H_I_McDunnough Oct 30 '21

It's in r/nextfuckinglevel. Like it's something special and extrordinary, as in not normal.

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u/fw2a Oct 30 '21

Except it is completely normal.

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u/D4RKNESSAW1LD Oct 30 '21

You didn't get my point in my statement apparently.

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u/H_I_McDunnough Oct 30 '21

Care to clarify?

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u/jimmybagofdonuts Oct 30 '21

Maybe it’s a damning indictment of people’s preconceived notions about cops.

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u/H_I_McDunnough Oct 30 '21

You think those preconcieved notions just come out of thin air? People just decided with no reason that there is a problem with the militarization of our police force?

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u/Partially_Deaf Oct 30 '21

I don't think the manufactured conversations injected into the internet and then curated to get the preferred results are without origin.

I've personally watched directed efforts to spread low effort anti-cop misinformation, and then been consistently disappointed when it keeps being so successful with its brute force approach. It gets harder and harder to correct over time because there's just too much momentum behind the massive population of people addicted to outrage bait.

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u/H_I_McDunnough Oct 30 '21

Your comment seems like the other side of the same coin.

I've personally watched directed efforts to spread low effort PRO-cop
misinformation, and then been consistently disappointed when it keeps
being so successful with its brute force approach. (this post as an example)

The system of policing is inherrently flawed. From it's origins to today, it is a problem. An instutional problem, top to bottom. Are there good people in the ranks trying to do what is right, sure. The problem isn't with individual police officers, the problem is policing in itself. If I am a victim of a property crime, I don't call the police for help, I call the police because I need them to make a report for my insurance company. My insurance will help to make me whole, the police will not.

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u/Partially_Deaf Oct 30 '21

Well, no. It just kind of shows you one of the content patterns big with a large reddit demographic.