Am I losing it or are cops becoming a socially acceptable welfare program?
Don’t want to work? Become a cop and make easy money. Hell, you’re gonna get jacked off by everyone too while you’re at it!
Always have been. :astronaut-1:
the function of the cops is to protect bourgeois private property. therefore the cops are given a status above the regular civilians to incentivize that they stay loyal to the bourgeoisie. They're a sort of "warrior caste". They reinforce this through training. "we're sheepdogs! regular people are sheep! criminals are wolves!" Cops are also permitted strong unions, and to be universally armed, since their job is to union bust and confiscate arms. They are given the very privileges they deprive others of, as a bribe. They throw people in jail for drugs, yet they're always getting high at the evidence warehouse. Curious. :thinkin-lenin:
Always have been. :astronaut-1:
the function of the cops is to protect bourgeois private property. therefore the cops are given a status above the regular civilians to incentivize that they stay loyal to the bourgeoisie. They're a sort of "warrior caste". They reinforce this through training. "we're sheepdogs! regular people are sheep! criminals are wolves!" Cops are also permitted strong unions, and to be universally armed, since their job is to union bust and confiscate arms. They are given the very privileges they deprive others of, as a bribe. They throw people in jail for drugs, yet they're always getting high at the evidence warehouse. Curious. :thinkin-lenin:
Don't forget Qualified Immunity
or civil asset forfeiture. or their tendency to just turn their body cams off whenver they want. or...