• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I’ve think a lot of cops express how unhappy they are with the justice systems. Imagine getting a call for a domestic abuse. Show up and see this piece of shit beat his wife and kid. You arrest them and put them in jail. 6 months later you get another call same fucking guy same fucking thing. The courts gave him a reduced sentence. Rinse and repeat for your career. You’re catching the same dirt bags over and over and the justice system keeps putting them back out there cause they either are too lenient or under funded to handle them. Cops can make the arrest but have no control over the justice system. I get a lot of us hate cops but I think we can all empathize how hard it would be to see the same people every couple months victimizing the same people

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      25 days ago

      Interestingly, the rate of domestic abuse among LEO is significantly higher than in the normal population. “Good cops” clean their own house so rarely that when they do, they can become a celebrity and have a book and movie written about them (Serpico).

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          25 days ago

          Not necessarily pertaining to your point, which I get, and have also heard directly from people I know IRL who are now or used to be police. I just get surprised every time how indignant they will get over other people committing crimes repeatedly, while they overlook the same things in their own in-group, or even help shelter.

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      25 days ago

      The obvious solution is to follow the model of Judge Dredd. That worked out well.