Things I’ve personally seen cops doing within the last two weeks:
Investigating the scene of a homicide in an alleyway.
Controlling traffic at a busy intersection with malfunctioning lights.
Tending to a unfortunate clearly suffering some distress on the side of the road.
Dispersing a crowd of unruly, intoxicated loiterers from out front a business.
Controlling the scene of a shots fired altercation.
If you’re out there protesting today, good on you. Just please keep in mind the amount of good the service does, and consider the ratio of bad/good police.
Change will happen when society creates new pathways to real justice, and puts the power in the hands of those who will uphold the meaning of the word. This does not happen overnight, and it does not happen by breaking windows.
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No, no…I’m not sloppy, or lazy. This is a sign of the boredom.
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