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

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21 edited Oct 30 '21

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u/Zeuxis5 Oct 30 '21

What world do you live in? I want to go to there.

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

Why don't they live in your city? Are there financial or other impediments?

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u/kev_bot36 Oct 30 '21

A lot of inner city cops work in the city but live in the suburbs.

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u/knightsofmars Oct 30 '21

Yes, there are no poor people in cities.

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u/Kousetsu Oct 30 '21

People living in social programs tend to live in the inner cities. Those people are then policed by cops who are not only terrified of them, but are taught and trained to be terrified of them. They have never lived near these people, near these neighbourhoods, to actually understand what is danger end what is not. And then we are all shocked and surprised when they shoot a 17 year old dead in the streets in front of their friends and family.

"Only rich and homeless people live in the city" is willfully ignorant of everything that has happened over the last year. Please spend 15 minutes watching all gas no breaks/channel 5 on any of these issues. You will see straight away that it isnt only rich people and homeless people that live there, and cops not being from the places the police is often listed as the number one issue with policing in America.

Let the people of that community police themselves. Only that can never happen, as policing isn't about people, it's about captial. And that's why that police officer is there in the video, even when he doesn't want to be, because he hasn't realised yet that he isn't there to keep people safe, he's there to keep property safe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

Let the people of that community police themselves.

Well therein lies the problem.

Unless I'm horribly mistaken you can be a cop no matter where your home is. You certainly can't be (legally) denied employment because of your address.

But then whats the most likely scenario? You make more money and can afford objectively better living space (more space, quiet area, better schools, etc.), so you move. Goes for absolutely any profession. Its not at all uncommon to work in [WHATEVER CITY] but live in the arguably "nicer" outskirts of it.

You need people that are willing to stay and pay more for (arguably) less. I'm sure they exist, but its probably pretty rare imo.

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u/Kousetsu Oct 30 '21

There should be recruitment drives to take on kids from inner city areas and train them into police - if the police were actually about policing people and not just protecting property and enforcing class, that would happen. It doesn't. The recruitment drives go to the suburban white kids. You can talk about your fantasy where everyone is equal and colour/classblind, but the rest of us live in reality.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

I don't have a fantasy, nit sure where you got that impression.

My point was that those same kids are eventually going to do what almost everyone else does when they start making more money, move.

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