• dragontamer@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Cops aren’t warriors.

      There’s another bullshit thing we need to get rid of. Cops are NOT swat team. And the idea of a “Warrior-cop” is one of the worst fucking things in our culture right now.


      Liberals have been asking cops to stand down and be more kind for the last decade and suddenly in this case, yall are asking them to be militant warriors again.

      No. Leave the “warriors” to the SWAT team at best, and I’m not even convinced that SWAT is a good idea for all cities to have. Warrior-cop mentality is one of the worst things going on in this country right now, and I want to speak against it.

      Cops aren’t soldiers. They’re supposed to be community members. In other countries, cops don’t even carry guns.

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        Weird, I want cops to not strangle someone because they may have used a fake bill, or shoot someone because they were called there to help with a mental health crisis, or shoot someone because they busted into the wrong apartment, or to flash bang a baby.

        But I suppose that means I want them to be kind to someone actively shooting kids.

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          The training sets up the mindset of the cops.

          I don’t believe any cop should get advanced weapon training unless they’re explicitly assigned to SWAT and/or Riot control. And normal beat cops honestly don’t deal with hyperviolent people often enough to deserve the mindshift or the training for violence.

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        Nice straw-man, but if they can’t take the heat they shouldn’t be in the kitchen cooking. Uvalde cops went AWOL while children died and you’re defending the AWOL cops against arguments that we’re not making while lumping us all in as flip flopping liberals. Surprised some people know how the government works? They weren’t anywhere close to war and guess what, war is worse. They wouldn’t just stand there, they would run away.

        The exact reason why the police refused to engage with the uvalde shooter is precisely because they spend every waking moment fantasizing about being Rambo and then they can’t handle the adrenaline when there’s actual lead in the air. They let the kids catch it all instead. These aren’t men we’re talking about anymore.

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          6 months ago

          Oh? And the typical UK Cop doesn’t even have a pistol.

          Get your head out of your ass and see how stupidly overmilitarized USA’s cop culture has become. Think about how our expectations here in Uvalde are causing that, and stop pushing for militarized cops.