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Can't expect anything different from the police when both major parties will do nothing meaningful to hold them accountable. You want change? You have to vote for it.
o yea, lets choose between geriatric fascism or decrepid neoliberalism that oughtta change eveything
The problem is it won't change anything.
then don't vote ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Might as well, really. Most people in this country experience no meaningful difference in their life regardless of who we elect.
And they know it, which is why so many don't bother.
Most people in this country don't NOTICE the effect they experience based on who gets voted in. ftfy🙃
That is the most privileged take I've ever seen. I know people who've had to move states because of transphobia.
Does it even matter if it affects most people or just some people? If 10% of people need to flee their state or 37% go into poverty because of conservative laws, most people are still fine. That doesn't make their situations acceptable.
A cornerstone of socially left policy is standing up for minorities and fighting for them to have equal civil rights. By definition, a minority is not "most people".
If you consider yourself left of center, you need to do some introspection. You can't write off a minority and still consider yourself on the left.
Lmao
It's not about the voting, at least not directly. It's about the cost of hiring and maintaining a police force, and the kind of person who would be willing to be a police officer for low pay, versus the type that would want high pay for the same position, and how that affects city budgets.
High pay doesn’t help. There are a lot of very high paying police departments and they’re just as corrupt and violent as the others.
[Citation required]
LAPD pays almost $90K for officers training in the academy and it goes up from there. They have excellent benefits and an actual pension. Studen loan forgiveness and a bunch of other things. They get paid even more if they work night shifts or overtime.
Yeah, but I'm guessing Los Angeles is an outlier salary wise?
Also, think about it, 90k and you can die at any time, versus other corporate jobs that pay a lot more and death is not an immediate concern in your life.
Takes two types of mindsets to take a police job that has a high risk of death. One where you want to help humanity, and the other where you want to control humanity for power sake.
(Technically I'm assuming there could be a third type, the thrill seeker, but there's many other career and recreational ways of getting that kind of adrenaline rush so I didn't include it as one of the major types.)
I'm assuming the ones who want to control humanity will take a lot less money for a job with that risk than the ones who just want to help humanity. We all seem to have some kind of threshold about when we stop wanting to help humanity and start taking care of ourselves.