• invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Didnt know we had :thumb-cop: on hexbear...

    This is some tired bullshit and the material analysis of this situation is not about the increase, but about the millions of dollars of media coverage being thrown at this small increase. 300 more murders overall against a year when half the country was on rotating lockdown is a crisis? No.

    The crisis is that during that year, people began to realize that the police aren't necessary and the established capitalist order needs an excuse to continue to publicly fund their foot soldiers.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Dude, denying an massive increase in violence is not defending the cops. You all sound like literal caricatures. Yes, if we just lie to the public in our own way, we will abolish police tomorrow!

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You're a clown lmao

        This isn't even an uptick worth mentioning, fucking 10 people per month in the entire country is nothing when 1000x that are dying each month from a preventable disease that is being ignored.

        The only reason anyone is hearing about this is because they want to scare people into giving the police more money full stop. They don't plan to do anything about it. Stop supporting police union propaganda.

        • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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          3 years ago

          Dude, the homicide rate is as high in 2020 as it was in 1995. The obvious answer here is "Police budgets have increased, but crime is the same. Police are useless".

          The propaganda is Lefties doing insane cope because one statistic "looks bad", when in fact an increase in the homicide rate despite the massive increase in police and prisons is proof that they don't do shit.

        • ExceedsTheCharacterL [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Dude, police are getting more money. The only reason some police departments were defunded was because of Covid. No propaganda is needed, people are scared.

        • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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          3 years ago

          How is an increase in homicide despite more police being a "stooge"? If anything, this proves they're worthless, but go off.

          • hahafuck [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            You are a stooge because you are a goofy stupid-hair motherfucker incapable of understanding simple things like ladders