They can literally not do it...
Cops have an insane amount of power because they can just not do their job whenever they feel like it
I doubt it's that easy. There will be disciplinary systems. And if they quit, I'm sure the govt will find people with fewer morals to take their place.
How can they discipline you for not seeing something? Also, no one is saying to quit. They should keep working, but just become blind to these "criminals."
Sort of like a police strike for better conditions for the public.
Your talking about their discretionary powers and that's not going to be relevant on a protest enforcement action where their senior officer in command will have laid out exactly what the criteria to arrest is.
So stop doing it then you fuckwits
If you're ashamed of the job you are doing, find a new job.
This isn't like working in fast food, where you can just find another job right away. You're talking about abandoning a career the officer has spent years building.
Principles aren't principles if you only follow them when they're easy.
Easy for us to say.
I'm not claiming to be the moral arbiters of the nation though, am I. They are, that's the job they chose to do, it's not my fault they suddenly don't like it. Same for the military in the US wandering aboud LA, and DC.
Easy to say but my job is shit and what real choice do I have? Sure I can look for something else but there isn't much out there.
Yeah cuffing pensioners is a real skill that must be honed with years of hard work & training
https://www.joiningthepolice.co.uk/training-progression/training
18-22 weeks of classroom based training, then three months supervision on the job. Then they will be getting promoted as they get more experienced.
It's a lot to just walk away from.
“Just following orders” you say? You could choose not to do it. You could choose to not participate in injustice. What you are doing is bad and you should feel bad for doing it.
They should be more like the Italian dock workers.
Then they should refuse to do it, and make the police force go through the trouble of firing them.
Resign, pigs.
ACAB holy fuck.
If my boss told me at my job, I had to attack genocide protesters or I would be fired, I think I would rip out his jugular with my teeth and then quit
To be fair, cops have no other marketable skills, so rage quitting has more serious consequences than for normal people with transferable skills.
Quit then
quit your jobs then???
When confronted by protestors, do a 180, grab a sign, and join them. You were a human once upon a time. If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
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