• Infomatics90@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    well you need the police to enforce the law. how can you have a country without laws?

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      Sometimes laws are bad and should be broken, if you’re going to advocate taking guns away from normal people at least take them away from the pigs too.

      Having armed police showing up to evict people (possibly leaving them homeless) because the banks not getting its payments is a pretty severe power assymetry.

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      4 days ago

      In some developed nations, even the beat cops are disarmed and only their equivalent of SWAT response teams are.

      Law enforcement are seen as community emmisaries, you can walk up to a British cop in a corner with no fear of them shooting you over a misunderstanding.

      This actually helps those police to be seen in a positive light by society.

      I see this as an appropriate compromise. Mitigates the potential for casual police shootings with only 1-2 law enforcement witnesses.

      But American police, while paid a lot for very little education, don’t want to take ANY risks despite explicitly being paid to. They aren’t even in the top 20 most dangerous professions in the US.

      https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states

      They use their militarized equipment to shoot until everyone’s dead, then ask the corpses questions, instead of doing their jobs and protecting citizens with their lives if necessary. That’s why you get paid booku bucks with a high school diploma, at least in theory.