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The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Neighbors (www.propublica.org)
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[–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

The initial institution was great. It created a civilian force for domestic enforcement so the military wouldn't be used against its own citizens.

The problem was that we keep trying to roll it back and make the police more like the military.

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    The initial institution was great.

    Was it now?

    The very first "official" police department (the London Metropolitan Police) was organised and staffed by English soldiers and mercenaries who had raped, tortured and murdered their way through Ireland during the 1798 revolt. In the US, the institution of policing was created by amalgamating the institution of slave-catching with that of labour-repression.

    Surprise, surprise... exactly the same kind of scum, the same kind of hencherproletariat, that staffs the world's police forces to this very day.

    Are you absolutely certain the term "great" is what you want to use to describe this fundamentally fascist institution that was purposefully invented by liberalism to protect the wealthy from the people they were exploiting?

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