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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The problem with this line of thought is you have no way of knowing who is a bad guy and who is just a native/black/Irish/ kid but it is human nature to take short cuts so all black/native/irish kids tend to become the bad guys which leads to Starlight rides, beating deaths and the Birmingham 8.
The police seem to exist in a weird world where they spend most of their time dealing with the most vulnerable of our society without having any insight or knowledge about them what so ever (and I do believe this is on some level a purposeful choice towards ignorance to make the job morally or emotionally easier), I can remember trying to explain to an anti prostitution task force that were sent to the jail I worked out of why they were having no luck getting co operation from the girls when they wanted to 'bust their scumbag pimps' as the cops put it, they had no idea that most of the girls 'pimps' really were their boyfriends, that the girls cared for them and visa versa, that the guys did some dealing and B&E's, the girls worked the stroll, they pooled their money and survived that way.
The anti prostitution task force seemed to have no clue about the actual lives of prostitutes, they seemed to see everything in an utterly black and white manner, they desperately needed a bad guy to hunt down, the idea that everyone involved (except maybe the regular citizen who bought the girls) was also a victim seemed impossible for them to comprehend
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I’d love to have a few pints with you to discuss the above because writing a post will just result in a wall of text. All I’ll say is this, in my 20 years of service I’ve seen policing advance beyond my wildest dreams. When i started we arrested people for possessing a joint, now as of Jan 31 people can possess 2.5 grams of whatever they want. Prostitution has evolved from pimps and hookers to sophisticated human trafficking organizations. People with mental health issues used to just spend the day or night in cells, now they’re being linked up with community outreach, case workers or mental health professionals at hospitals. I dunno, the way I see it is police are often trying to play catch up to the newest methods or studies and adapt to them. From my experience, most police officers truly just want to keep good people from being harmed and bring people accused of crime to some semblance of Justice. We tend to go with the flow. But I will also say this, we HATE crooked cops, we HATE cops that do things to make us look bad, I can tell you that the majority of cops will say something along the lines of , “he might be a friend of mine, but he’s not worth losing my job over or if he ever puts me in a bad spot, that’s on him”.