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My little state violence (jlai.lu)

submitted 21 hours ago by Bad@jlai.lu to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[in front of a protesting crowd, two characters are talking]
[blue, serious] Violence is never the solution
[purple, smug] Agreed, let's disarm the police

[blue is now shown angrily gesticulating, sweating bullets]
NO,
NOT
LIKE
THIS

https://thebad.website/comic/my_little_state_violence

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[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

"Abolish the police" is essentially shorthand for ending the current institution. Community policing IS the ideal goal.

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

Politely, a lot of people don't think that way, especially communists and anarchists which are common ideologies on lemmy. They truly do think of it as end all police.

[–] guitarfosec@infosec.pub -5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This movement does need a better slogan. "Defund the police" doesn't convey the idea properly.
This cartoon says "Disarm the police", which is also terrible messaging and a straight up stupid idea. I wouldn't work as a cop in this country without a gun.
Police of some kind will always be necessary. Violence and physical power trump everything else, which is why we need people who are allowed to use force on our behalf so that we can run our societies based on rules and not who is the best at violence. Our system allows the people to get together and collectively hire and fire the people that hire and fire the cops we interact with on the streets. I don't know exactly how that got corrupted or how to fix it.
We need specific police reforms and the folks leading the groups pushing for these reforms need to work on their messaging so they don't have people yelling and tweeting things out that make them look like idiots and turning people off. You'll never win over the boot-lickers, but better messaging could be a game change overall.

[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I wouldn’t work as a cop in this country without a gun.

99% of police work does not require a gun. You don't need a gun to sit on an overpass radaring cars, to show up 8 hours late to a burglary to take a note about what items were stolen to then immediately lose it, to harass homeowners about their lawn or the volume knob position in their stereo, to write a ticket and leave it on someone's parked car... Nothing of that vein requires a gun, and every time guns are added to that mix, someone fucking dies. The cops responded to a kid having an autistic meltdown with a small knife on his hands on his family's lawn, and the cops literally dumped 3 mags into him FROM OVER A FENCE HE COULDN'T JUMP CAUSE HE WAS SITTING ON THE FLOOR. European countries DO have a subsect of police that is heavily armed AND HEAVILY TRAINED to deal with actual shooting incidents, but they're only called when absolutely necessary.

Violence and physical power trump everything else, which is why we need people who are allowed to use force on our behalf so that we can run our societies based on rules and not who is the best at violence.

No. You build a better society through cooperation. This is literally about making the state the best at violence so everyone complies. Hard fucking pass, lib.