Yes. If you choose to join an oppressive, racist institution, people will judge you for it. Is this news to you? We also judge Nazi and white supremacists for their choices.

It’s telling though, ever since that largely forgotten interview of a news reporter surprising a police chief and him saying “We don’t hire smart people” says a lot when you account for their other actions, like the “Warrior training” the officers go through to instill a psychotic sense of fear - paranoia even, of…

The police have earned that deserved reputation through spilling the blood of the people they’re currently “reaching out” to.

What should they be doing for outreach?

I’m noticing a trend with these police apologists consistently having poor reading comprehension.

https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

Interesting note, the FBI has done research into white supremacists infiltrating the military and police. They sent guidelines to recruiters for specific things to screen for (symbols, tattoos, etc). The military said “oh damn, we were missing a lot of these” and immediately implemented the suggested fixes. Police…

Yet unlike the Nazis or the KKK, the institution of policing is not inherently evil and is actually subject to change. The police does not have to be racist, the police does not have to be discriminatory, and the police do not have to be corrupt.

I’ve known cops. I’ve had cops in my family.

Guess everyone that wears a badge is automatically a racist bastard right?

Wait an hour for the cops to show up only to have them basically just take a few notes, shrug, and never resolve anything?

As far as I can tell that’s just what cops DO, except they count “having to wait a bit for McDonald’s sometimes, like anyone else” as an attack against them personally.

You can not be a cop and also point out the problems with the police system. Not sure why you think they’re mutually exclusive. Why so defensive?

Not that you’ll actually pay any attention, but here you go:

Spanfeller, is that you?  You really still doing the “stick to sports” bit?

I don’t need to engage with all of them, for exactly the reason I stated. If you’re going to argue, at least pretend to be paying attention.  I’ll repeat.  Try to keep up this time.

Something tells me you’ve already heard the rational reasons for defunding the police and chose to ignore them.

Yeah. Video game news sites should only blow the police and hump the military’s dick.

Yes, all of them. You can’t participate in an institution that is systemically corrupt and discriminatory, and which exists to maintain a corrupt power structure and then turn around and claim to have clean hands. Even the ones you would call “the good ones” protect the bad ones and they system that empowers them, and…

I’m a heavy magic the gathering player and yeah signatures tend to LOWER the value of cards rather than raise them. this is because there are only a certain number of pristine examples printed and every time you get a card signed or the card gets damaged that number of pristine cards goes down. If you buy and sell tcg…