All over the country, in cities big and small, police departments are recruiting tiny fractions of what they used to be able to. Cleveland's graduating class from police academy this year was 9 piglets. In 2000, they had 87. Similar drops are happening all over the country. Cities may be refusing to defund, but their PDs are shrinking anyways because the vast majority of people have realized that cops are basically evil.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Rural conservative people are somehow convinced that BLM is a terrorist organization that has captured territory in an actual civil war. That's how some of my cousins talk, including a few who wanted to be cops.

    They think they'll be sent to active battlefields. One cousin told me BLM uses landmines.

    Just up and down delusion. Also I think potential pigs are afraid of sovereign citizens too? A coworker of mine who flunked out of pig academy always talks up sovereign citizens like they're Rambo.

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They probably showed them footage of some cop getting shot by a sovereign citizen during a traffic stop to scare them into taking things seriously the same way they show you graphic images of car crashes during drivers ed

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        They watched Fox News in 2020 and saw riots in places like Seattle and they collectively imagined that all large cities in the north were burned to the ground. It's like campfire stories for them. One of my relatives will say they heard BLM killed 100 cops last week, then the other will say they heard BLM joined forces with MS-13.

        One of my cousins tells an elaborate story of how he had to shoot his way out of an antifa roadblock in Colorado one time. They're all making shit up and won't call one another out.