Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 2:53 pm
I was about to stop after realizing myself some of the stuff you said but it's about innocent cops, none of the cops murdered since police brutality became a big issue seven years ago, had nothing to do with the misconduct of other officers. And yet, their deaths are used to talk about how horrible the cops are instead of keeping the topic about the dead officer.
Calling them an occupying force dehumanizes them, at least to me, when again, I have officers in my family.
The best, least corrupt cop is still a person whose job is to exercise violence against those they, solely on their own judgement, deem to deserve that violence for infractions against the law. They are further specifically lethally armed.
That is an occupation. That they are sent in greater numbers against the poorest and most vulnerable of society reinforces this fact. They are perceived as an occupying force because they are armed and deployed like one.
Correspondingly, if they wish to be perceived in another light, it is solely incumbent upon them to behave in a manner which builds trust and reduces tensions with the community. They, as the party with state sanctioned power and authority, must be willing to absorb mistrust and, at times, violence unblinking for their capacity to do so is far greater.
Instead time and again we are told by them, or by their agents such as yourself, that every ounce of their blood is worth a dozen lives of citizens caught in their violence, reinforcing the original perception of being subjugated by an occupying force.
The great irony of course is that as a practical matter, leftist organizers are continually cautioning against engaging with police or retaliating against them, and it’s in the absolute thick of a melee that these warnings are sometimes unheeded. Cops meanwhile will default to violence, to justify further violence, as an occupying force will do.
If you wish people to stop using factual descriptions of the police, the police must change the facts.