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In the shittier schools I went to, the cops starting around 5th grade would basically say, "soon we'll be arresting some of you."
When I was in first grade we watched a video about crime statistics where they said "there's 30 of you in this class, so 5 of you aren't going to finish high school, 2 of you are going to die of a drug overdose, and when you're adults, we'll arrest 3 of you" and shit like that. I remember thinking "you can't arrest my classmates, they're my friends and they're not bad guys" and a tiny little ACAB seed was planted that day
Pretty much. I can't remember having a good experience interacting with cops. Ever. I felt like when they would come to scare us with tough love, it was just an excuse to ID the younger siblings of guys they already had on their radar.
Sort of weird that my brother is a cop-loving fuckface. We had a very similar upbringing, but he rubs one out to Fox and OANN daily.
Family is weird like that. My sister helped push me back leftward when I was going through my stemlord phase and she's a huge lib now even though her area of work and study is the feedback cycle of climate change and extractive capitalism. Not as bad as an OANN chud but extremely disheartening all the same
I was also radicalized by a lib, lol. It turns out if you follow feminist theory to its conclusions...
Goes to show how any decent person who tries to become a cop to help people is quickly drummed out of the job. Either you participate in something like that, realize that the problems with it are impossible for you to solve as one individual working within, and quit, or you start the process of accepting the way things are.
What the fuck why would you say that to literal children. But I guess the cruelty is the point :marx-angry:
I remember cops coming to our school to fingerprint everyone. This was framed as a fun activity but in hindsight, holy shit
My schools had Officer Bob. He came to my class every grade 1-8 to remind us how good the police are. That was his entire job. Still required the uniform and gun tho
he did teach me and some of my friends how to escape handcuffs after class once, I'm not sure how to reconcile that one
I wanted to be a detective when I was young. It wasn't about the authority... I just wanted to drive around in a cool car, find clues and solve mysteries.
Luckily, my role models were the Scooby-Doo gang rather than the cops. As soon as I realized that being an actual detective meant I had to hit my wife 40% of the time, I realized that life wasn't for me.
We had cops come do drug talks, because that apparently makes more sense than sending someone who knows what the fuck they're talking about.
The cop at my school told me that opiates were prescribed for pain more often than marijuana because marijuana was "the harder drug"
I grew up in a place with an absurdly high fire risk so we always got fire fighters instead. Never play with matches kids, this one time it killed a whole family. Here's the charred remains of a teddy bear.
My school's DARE office spent a lot of time trying to justify to third graders why he carried a gun, which is hilarious in hindsight. Bunch of eight year olds giving him shit about how bad and dangerous it is that he has a gun lol
Yeah it was super uncomfortable, I sat in the very front row, so I would spend the time just staring at his gun thinking to myself even as a 5th grader how lame and try hard it was to bring a loaded gun into a classroom, and I was thinking this as a kid who was a gun/action nut
the big thing i remember from DARE was the cop asking the class right up front, do ya'll want to see my gun? and the whole class cheers yes, so he pulls out a photocopy of his pistol. Which meant that this big fucking dork in a batman tool belt got to the school to do the presentation and then asked whatever teacher or administrator, hey can I use your photocopier for a minute? and then pulled out his fucking pistol and slapped it onto the glass.
Did you guys have that thing where a cop and paramedic would come in and be like if you ever even think of weed you're going to overdose and die (not dare it was different). They showed us the tube used to pump stomachs and a very exaggerated needle to show us how much it would hurt when they tried to save us. Then told us how much our parents will cry at our funerals and blame themselves. This was in fifth grade when we were like 10.
We got that for crack, during the 90s.
All I could think was "where the hell do you buy crack in the suburbs?!"
Ahh the 90s, before schoolchildren knew where to buy crack in the suburbs
I never had anything like that happen but Im also from Sweden so the cop worship is a little bit less overt.
They still shoot people with toy guns with no real repercussions though so that much is the same.
The case im most familiar with was a developmentally challenged man in his early 20s had a tiny shitty mp5 plastic toy that he was going around with, some snitch called the cops and the cops turn up and empty their mags in his general direction cause he turned around with it when they yelled at him.
Sadly our cops are just as murderous as the rest of the world given the chance, they dont get issued nerf guns.
DARE totally worked on me. I wrote two paragraphs in 5th grade about babies being born addicted to cocaine and how doing drugs was stupid because even if you did them once, you would die immediately. I got an A on that assignment.
I smoked weed for the first time when I was 22 and that's when I realized how completely full of shit everyone was.
In grade 5, we were required to write a 2 page essay about how much we loved cops after we spent like 2 weeks where the daily curriculum was just DARE. Apparently, we were far from the only school that did this because I literally just copy pasted the essay from someone who won like 2 years earlier from a different school on the opposite side of the country and the essay was posted online. The cop pulled me aside to yell at me about how plagiarism was illegal and I asked him, "Are you going to arrest a ten year old girl because she didn't feel like doing the most pointless homework assignment we've gotten all year? I just wanted to watch spongebob." Dude was so mad.
This experience and others like it. Because I was a white kid in the suburbs, I was raised with plenty of "cops good" propaganda. Tbh it took me a while after becoming a leftist to fully shake off the pro-cop brainwashing.
I mean, cops are basically the unofficial military of the white suburbs. They function to protect white supremacy, both within the suburbs and outside them. That's why white suburbanites lick so much cop boot, they "support the troops". Having them show up in elementary schools is just part of the propaganda.
Yep and it turned out he was molesting girls from a bunch of different families. He was also in a high position in the local Mormon ward so that gave him a reason to see the girls he molested for multiple years. They did not find out for a long time because of how much power he held in the community.
