When I think about this through the lens of fighting police brutality no matter who it's against, I suddenly feel totally on board.
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Breakdown the killings and look at what the officers encounter during those lethal force incidents. So many of them are when an officer faces a legitimate life threat with little/no option to de escalate or take any different action 1/
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So many people want police “retrained” however they typically fail to mention what that is or how to do it. It boils down to a fundamental lack of understanding of what it is police do. There are 800,000 cops in the U.S. and they approx 375 millon public interactions annually 2/
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I can’t do much of this on twitter with limited characters. Please feel free to DM for an honest convo with a cop, not a bot just an anonymous cop on twitter.
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So I am actually kind of sympathetic - I frequent the police subreddit so i get to see the police side whenever a video goes viral. i've seen also a few scary videos that make me understand why police seem to be so freaking defensive. That said:
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It's common for people have had encounters with police who have attitude problems, even in times where there's no actual threat. I can think of one instance of my sister who made a silly face at a police officer and then they *followed her in their car* to pull her over for-
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some random tiny traffic infraction. That is an attitude problem.
Also! I do a lot of things that I consider to be genuinely good for humanity. I do psychedelics and sex work. I personally get a bolt of terror whenever I see a man in uniform.
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Because even *if* he's one of the "good guys" who won't get pissed at you if you disrespect him, he's still going to use force to enforce a law that prevents me from doing what I want even if it's involving 100% consenting parties who are hurting nobody.
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Everyone has a “this one time a cop did a thing” story. I know there are bad cops and all cops have bad days. We are not immune to the normal day to day pressures of life. We however also get the immense pressure of police work piled on that as well.
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