RDN's Lucifer (nerthos)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-17 02:27:20 UTC
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@scribus Well, cops are supposed to enforce law rather than anything else. So at the end of the day whether they're a good or bad thing depends on whether the law is good or bad. Again, not sure what happened this time. As far as I see it cops lately don't enforce the law strongly enough to avoid violent outbreaks and that's my main complaint about them, but that's due to generally having orders to avoid involvement. However as you point out, yeah, there's a good number of thugs in an uniform too, and while the police as a body might generally be a force of good, it's often that individuals join not to serve but to feel "well-endowed" with burrowed authority. Those I fully agree are something we should be rid of. A cop should be a public servant, not a thug, and all instances of such behaviour should be reported, investigated, and eventually punished accordingly.
