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paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
some times cops catch rapists and murderers like true detective, and other cop shows. this thread is to talk about wahtever policing alternatives or reforms or

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urf
Jul 12, 2009
yeah let's talk fiction

my favorite imaginary good cop is Sam Vimes

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
roem didnt have cops and where are they now? huh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-kql7cpcOo thats where

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
What I'm saying is yes the mods paid me to make a cop thread where death threats are vsiewed as unconstructive

138
Oct 28, 2003




one time when i was young, i was hanging out with a bunch of friends at a pier in sf drinking booze at night and some cops rolled up on us and left when we didn't run. they didn't even talk to us or get out of the car. every other cop story i have is bad.

ManBoyChef
Aug 1, 2019

Deadbeat Dad



I was a heroin addict for many years. I have some pretty bad cop stories. Most cops look at addicts as problems and not people which leads to some dehumanizing situations.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

The only good cop was Sid Hatfield

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

I give you: Cop Thread 2

A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

There's a cop in my neighborhood and every year for Halloween he starts cruising around the neighborhood telling kids to go home about 30 minutes before Trick or Treat ends. A couple years ago we had a group of kids (around 12 years old) hanging out in our yard trading candy and he flashed his lights at them and told them to disperse. I told him they were free to hang out and he told me it wasn't my decision, even though it was my yard.

So yeah that was fun.

ur in my world now
Jun 5, 2006

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was


Smellrose
heres a policing alternative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP7ksvTTFho

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
all cops deserve death

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
thats only the kind of reform needed

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King

urf posted:

yeah let's talk fiction

my favorite imaginary good cop is Sam Vimes
for me, it's gotta be Ed Exley

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King
wait no

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
Rust Cole is pretty much the best cop we can hope for in the real world and he most likely got a huge amount of innocent people convicted by making them sign false confessions.

animist
Aug 28, 2018

Jose posted:

all cops deserve death

:hai:

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Jose posted:

all cops deserve death

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo
Well unless you’re an anprim I don’t see how you could be truly against the police. All forms of civilization are based on extraordinary levels of violence. Any socialist state that wants to
function is going to need some people to apply violence to dissenters, remember even Angela Davis supports prisons in the context of communist societies.

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
you cannot reform a bullet striking its intended target. all you can do is melt it down and start again. with different metals. and different molds.

what im saying is that cops are an instrument of oppression and an instrument intentionally built and formed for that purpose. you got nothign there to reform

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo

Kurnugia posted:

you cannot reform a bullet striking its intended target. all you can do is melt it down and start again. with different metals. and different molds.

what im saying is that cops are an instrument of oppression and an instrument intentionally built and formed for that purpose. you got nothign there to reform

Well how do you intend to enforce societal order in a socialist state? You can call them community enforcers or whatever and super promise they’re not actually police, but at the end of the day if they’re there to prevent total state collapse and to apply violence or imply the threat of violence they’re still police.

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Chuka Umana posted:

Well how do you intend to enforce societal order in a socialist state? You can call them community enforcers or whatever and super promise they’re not actually police, but at the end of the day if they’re there to prevent total state collapse and to apply violence or imply the threat of violence they’re still police.

if i was worried about people assaulting me on the streets, i'd carry a gun

...though someone mainly concerned about something like that, would make me prefer that he wasn't the guy carrying lethal instruments

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo

Kurnugia posted:

if i was worried about people assaulting me on the streets, i'd carry a gun

...though someone mainly concerned about something like that, would make me prefer that he wasn't the guy carrying lethal instruments


So in your ideal post police state people would just carry guns and decide to shoot anyone they see as a threat? lmao I don’t see much difference than what we currently have

unless you’re a revisionist I don’t see how you can be a leftist and not support wanton violence as a means of control.

Chuka Umana has issued a correction as of 18:48 on Aug 16, 2019

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
what the gently caress are you on about

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene
if Lee Carter took over and instituted a dictatorship who would go around clubbing in nazis' heads on behalf of the state

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo

Kurnugia posted:

what the gently caress are you on about

How would you apply state violence in a post police state?

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

The point is everyone who doesnt read crimethinc accepts that there needs to be some sort of force for preventing crime but the US police are so thoroughly hosed up that we basically need to start over

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
i dunno if im im being majorly trolled, but did you actually suggest there that a prequisite to disempowering the police is a concurrently functioning and real alternative system of justice and social order? because yur right!

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

StashAugustine posted:

The point is everyone who doesnt read crimethinc accepts that there needs to be some sort of force for preventing crime but the US police are so thoroughly hosed up that we basically need to start over

hurray! someone got it! also thanks

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo

Kurnugia posted:

i dunno if im im being majorly trolled, but did you actually suggest there that a prequisite to disempowering the police is a concurrently functioning and real alternative system of justice and social order? because yur right!

I’m saying is that there’s no alternative to the fundamental role of the police in any civilization. In a socialist state (I’m assuming you’re all trotskyists or some other form of state socialists) order will need to be enforced and dissent crushed.

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Chuka Umana posted:

I’m saying is that there’s no alternative to the fundamental role of the police in any civilization. In a socialist state (I’m assuming you’re all trotskyists or some other form of state socialists) order will need to be enforced and dissent crushed.

cool

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



:gas: Gas this loving thread right now. We don't need two cop threads. If cops are so loving great come into the other thread and tell us about it you simpering limp dick cowards. :gas:

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
aww don't be like that, im enjoying myself

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Koishi Komeiji posted:

:gas: Gas this loving thread right now. We don't need two cop threads. If cops are so loving great come into the other thread and tell us about it you simpering limp dick cowards. :gas:



excuse me

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
youre making a scene

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo
How will traffic safety be enforced without state violence? What would you do to someone who chronically speeds? Suspend their license? What would you did if they disregard that punishment and drive anyway?

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Chuka Umana posted:

How will traffic safety be enforced without state violence? What would you do to someone who chronically speeds? Suspend their license? What would you did if they disregard that punishment and drive anyway?

hmm... a reformative gulag system without violence of any kind

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

if somebody is doing evil things you round up a posse and lynch them? its not loving rocket science lol

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Calibanibal posted:

if somebody is doing evil things you round up a posse and lynch them? its not loving rocket science lol

ah, but it has to be focket science for his argument to work

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
the problem with cops isn't that they enforce laws, it's that they do so unjustly, oppressively, and corruptly, and also the laws themselves are unjust, oppressive, and corrupt

so just fix those little details and having cops is fine

:hf::shibe:

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paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
:synpa:

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