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I think most "my kid made an interesting observation" stories sound fake, but this checks out for me.
When kids think of a "law man" they probably think of sheriffs and cops. When a kid overhears an adult mention "law school" they probably think it's where a "lawman" went to school.
I was absolutely questioning shit at that age.
I remember being 5yo and asking my mom while police cars could drive through red lights with no lights on, while we had to wait.
I remember being 5yo and asking my mom while police cars could drive through red lights with no lights on, while we had to wait.
At least there is a legitimate reasoning for your question.
Police generally dont think the law should apply equally to themselves and civilians. That's most cops; a group within that thinks they should be able to create the law on-the-fly.
Should they go to school to be better at this? Irrelevant. They have a gun and the idealogical highground.
I'd argue they also have technological high ground as well.
Yup. By now I’m pretty sure all the federal warrantless wiretap stuff probably applies to local police as well. They’re like parents and we’re like the kids, and they have access to all our phone activity.
The setup is rigged so that you have to pay a lawyer to fix any issues.
that happened
7 is old enough to have this type of thought.
It happened to Edgar Blackmon.
Tell me you didn't go to law school with one meme.
Law school is not the place for police.
Just because it's always been that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly dumb.
A friend of mine is a prison guard, in Norway, and from what I recall him telling me, a solid 6 months (out of 2 years) of the education he took to become a guard was spent studying law. It's probably more comprehensive if you want to become a police officer.
Yeah, it's always weird looking at all the ACAB messages when you live somewhere where cops actually have to have some form of education... It takes 3.5 years in school to become a cop around here and sure we still have issues with bad employees, but at the same level you would expect in any job...
If your police system prioritizes protecting its own over serving the public, and you choose to join it anyway, then you are a bastard, so in that sense ACAB is true. The problem is that a lot of people have started using it to claim that all police, everywhere, in every system are bastards, and that just undermines the whole movement and ensures that we'll never have progress.
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Man it makes me sad to be here. I only see other, actually developed countries tackling shit at its root rather than nonstop bandaid fixes for everything.
Always gonna be ask for forgiveness not permission in the US.
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