Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Edit: wrong link, see below
Very illuminating. This is why we say "ACAB". You can't be a good person and do your job as a policeman.

[hammerofglass]

That's your local c drive.

[CharlesPhipps]

file:///C:/Users/SpencerK/Downloads/Confessions%20of%20a%20Former%20Bastard%20Cop.pdf

Very illuminating. This is why we say "ACAB". You can't be a good person and do your job as a policeman.

I actually take the view that a lot of anarchists think of the cops as the problem (and they are) but the fact is that the laws they enforce are fundamentally immoral so attacking the police for it is just worrying about the tools. The shit rolls downhill so you need to go at the top then work down.

[CmdrKing]

Ehhhhhh yes and no. The problem isn’t necessarily laws even (although many are bad) but the actual societal role and structure of policing. When you create a position in society whose duty is to enact violence with the full authority of the state, you’re inevitably going to disproportionately attract people who take the job in order to do that violence, and create a culture in which those around them seek to minimize, justify, and defend that violence whether they are there to do violence or not simply to maintain relative harmony within the group.

Basically the only way to avoid or minimize that is to keep how many people are in that category to an absolute minimum and maintain strict limits on when they are permitted to act.
(Which IS where the legal/political dimension of the problem arises, since it’s in the interest of politicians and others in positions of power to do the exact opposite of that! But even well crafted laws and honest politicians will struggle with the existing police, both as actual people and as a system.)

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

It’s good that their uniform and conduct not get too baggy so to speak, but I feel like a lot of governments are averse, if anything, to hiring too many people for a job. Unless of course the city is well endowed, though that’s usually where such problems don’t arise.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

That's your local c drive.

I am bad at computer.

Here, try this link: https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confession ... 14d17bc759

[Deledrius]

That's your local c drive.

I am bad at computer.

Here, try this link: https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confession ... 14d17bc759

That's the source which Google turns up (I looked for it when you first posted) but it's paywalled. Not a good look for whoever this is "confessing".

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Dammit, it wasn't paywalled for me.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

That's your local c drive.

I am bad at computer.

Here, try this link: https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confession ... 14d17bc759

That's the source which Google turns up (I looked for it when you first posted) but it's paywalled. Not a good look for whoever this is "confessing".

Maybe we can find the priest he confessed to.