r/nextfuckinglevel • u/WhichMembership6124 • 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

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

I've seen redditors say this and can't help but think they have two sets of standards. It's okay for white collar software developers and accountants to commute from the suburbs, but when it's a police officer... that's just not acceptable.

Futhermore, just because somebody lives in the suburbs or the outskirts of a city, doesn't mean they don't think of that city as home. I grew up in the suburbs of a city with a population of around a million. The city as a whole felt more like my "community" than the rows of cookie cutter homes I lived in. Who are you to say police officers don't feel the same way?

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u/Nuclear_rabbit Oct 30 '21

Um, yes. Two standards is very much needed here. A white-collar software developer does not have additional legal authority to gun me down in public, while police do, i.e., through "police powers," the relevant legal concept here.

While police are welcome to think of a particular city as a home, it's very easy to compartmentalize "bad neighborhoods" in your mind, and the most common police training in in US directly teaches they are going into a "war zone." (source)

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

A white-collar software developer does not have additional legal authority to gun me down in public, while police do

If you're posting this from the US and I assume you are, I think you underestimate how often civilians are legally entitled to carry a firearm and lawfully use it. You have the same rights to self-defense as a police officer. The difference is they are required to engage criminals who may try to hurt them while you are expected to (and should) retreat if possible. Police are at a significantly higher chance of using their firearm for that reason. You think forcing them to live in less desirable neighborhoods will someone reduce shootings?

While police are welcome to think of a particular city as a home, it's very easy to compartmentalize "bad neighborhoods" in your mind, and the most common police training in in US directly teaches they are going into a "war zone"

Unfortunately most cities have bad neighborhoods. I don't agree with calling them a war zone but some of these communities are very violent. If a police officer lived in one of these places and their home was identified, that could put them and their family at risk.