Also why is the police fox shown saluting someone?
Is this a US thing? Because police officers in the UK don’t salute eachother.
Saluting was done to show respect to the officer class who literally came from the upper classes of society, not the working class that the rank and file come from.
Because the metropolitan police forces were founded in the UK as a working class organisation they don’t salute eachother to show respect to ranks above them, they only stand to attention.
Yeah, fuck that noise. The whole idea of policing is that it’s done by consent of the public being policed.
Depending on where you sit on the Anarchy - Authority spectrum, what “policing by consent” ideally looks like is very different, but the one thing the overwhelming majority of those on that spectrum (excluding the extremes on each end) is that civilian policing is not done by the (para)military.
So yeah, cops should not be saluting anyone and media depictions of them shouldn’t be showing that either.
Also why is the police fox shown saluting someone?
Is this a US thing? Because police officers in the UK don’t salute eachother.
Saluting was done to show respect to the officer class who literally came from the upper classes of society, not the working class that the rank and file come from.
Because the metropolitan police forces were founded in the UK as a working class organisation they don’t salute eachother to show respect to ranks above them, they only stand to attention.
it’s a copaganda thing first and foremost. it helps normalize the imagery of a militarized police state
Yeah, fuck that noise. The whole idea of policing is that it’s done by consent of the public being policed.
Depending on where you sit on the Anarchy - Authority spectrum, what “policing by consent” ideally looks like is very different, but the one thing the overwhelming majority of those on that spectrum (excluding the extremes on each end) is that civilian policing is not done by the (para)military.
So yeah, cops should not be saluting anyone and media depictions of them shouldn’t be showing that either.
Police in the US love to pretend that they are in the military.
They like to pretend they’re military