• dragontamer@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Cops aren’t warriors.

      There’s another bullshit thing we need to get rid of. Cops are NOT swat team. And the idea of a “Warrior-cop” is one of the worst fucking things in our culture right now.


      Liberals have been asking cops to stand down and be more kind for the last decade and suddenly in this case, yall are asking them to be militant warriors again.

      No. Leave the “warriors” to the SWAT team at best, and I’m not even convinced that SWAT is a good idea for all cities to have. Warrior-cop mentality is one of the worst things going on in this country right now, and I want to speak against it.

      Cops aren’t soldiers. They’re supposed to be community members. In other countries, cops don’t even carry guns.

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        4 months ago

        Nice straw-man, but if they can’t take the heat they shouldn’t be in the kitchen cooking. Uvalde cops went AWOL while children died and you’re defending the AWOL cops against arguments that we’re not making while lumping us all in as flip flopping liberals. Surprised some people know how the government works? They weren’t anywhere close to war and guess what, war is worse. They wouldn’t just stand there, they would run away.

        The exact reason why the police refused to engage with the uvalde shooter is precisely because they spend every waking moment fantasizing about being Rambo and then they can’t handle the adrenaline when there’s actual lead in the air. They let the kids catch it all instead. These aren’t men we’re talking about anymore.