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[–] 255 points 7 months ago (53 children)

Police officers always seem to align with the interests of the capitalist (Epstein) class. What is it about that job that attracts so many people with contempt for the working class?

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  • [–] 129 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    I’m stealing the phrase ‘Epstein class’, that’s a great way of explaining how horrific the rich and powerful are

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think the term is capitalist propaganda that's trying to separate the bad rich from the "good" rich. "Yeah I made hundreds of millions insider trading and don't pay any taxes but hey, I never hung out with those bad rich guys."

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The answer is quite mundane. I've a few friends in a (non-US) police force. The answer is that the rich/powerful are annoying as hell to go against.

    They either know the law, or pay someone to know it for them. They can make obviously illegal things legal on paper. They can also nitpick everything. E.g. spending £5K on lawyers to get out of a £100 fine, since they don't want to get the points. Any procedural mistakes, or paperwork errors can kill a case, or at least drag it out for years.

    They also have contacts that can apply pressure. When their wife knows your boss's, boss's boss's wife, they can make your life and career VERY uncomfortable.

    End result, most officers learn to pick their battles with the rich and powerful. They will make your life hard, and will get away without everything being perfect.

    In practice this can easily turn into taking the easy road. Even when the rich aren't even technically in the right.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Plausible deniability is the name of the game, or as my lawyer relative would put it - "without the letter of the law (and hard evidence) on your side, don't bother pursuing based on the spirit, no matter how blatant."

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Stupidity.

    Cops are almost entirely made up of people who were too stupid to get a white collar job.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    As a blue collar guy, I think they’re too stupid to be blue collar workers.

    Edit- I had to do a 5-year apprenticeship, pass a state certification test and do continual education to maintain the certification.

    How long is the average American police academy and how challenging is it?

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    All of the answers before this are wrong. It's their vein attempt to show us that they're better than us. And that's it. They're so uncomfortable with themselves they they have to take you out on you. They believe they are part of the club.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    That would explain the massive overlap in domestic violence.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    The rich give the violent dullards and chest-thumpers the imprint of honorability.

    The average cop imagines himself a Knight Protector of the Realm when he is, odds on, Barney Fife with a spouse who flinches.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    They’re uneducated but handed a living wage job and they are usually white men with narcissistic and psychopathic traits. The culture of entitlement and superiority within these ranks rewards the most narcissistic and psychopathic among them in the power dynamic within the fostered culture. This system then reinforces the racialized hierarchy within the self serving capitalist power structure and solidifies the tiers of oppression.

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  • [+] -7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The Epstein class is not just capitalist. Stop sewing bullshit.

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