• irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Why should we try to save a fundamentally corrupt system because of a few good apples?

    There is some good cops, but they are a minority, and the good ones legitimise and enable the bad ones. (40% of cops engage in domestic violence. 60% of them enable the 40%.)

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      as many have pointed out before the “bad apple” idiom is

      “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch

      meaning it doesn’t matter how many good apples there are - it only needs one bad one.

      • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 hours ago

        sure lil bro, thats why militarised police forces only came about during the industrial revolution :)

        sure lil bro, thats why police forces predominantly formed from local militias seeking elimination of indigenous populations :)

        sure lil bro, thats why the police will definately arrest a business owner stealing the wages of their employees :)

        • REDACTED@infosec.pub
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          15 hours ago

          You’re seemingly blaming bad governance on the system being exploited by that government, and then saying the system should be eliminated, even tho elimination of the system would be costlier to everyone than trying to fix it/maintain it, and maybe a more logical choice would be to target the government, like it happened in many other parts of the world, including my country, where people generally have respect for police and police respect the people, no drama or unnecessary fights, lil bro.