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    Why cities can’t control their police

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    • Just Jeepin'
      Just Jeepin' last edited by Just Jeepin'

      https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-rochester-shooting/

      Very painful read. I only got partway through before I had to give up.

      It purports to tackle the question of how cities are struggling and failing to reclaim the authority to police the police.

      Jeeps

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      • jminer
        jminer last edited by

        @Just-Jeepin This is a hard problem, they've become so entrenched and such a touchpoint I don't understand how to actually solve this. 20 years ago, people didn't like the police and mostly saw them for the oppressive force they are but kind of accepted them as a necessary evil. This last 5 year shift into bold support of them feels really foreign and has motives under it that are unpleasant to think about.

        Former hoarder of motorcycles, recent CA transplant, nerd.

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        • Just Jeepin'
          Just Jeepin' @jminer last edited by

          @jminer I think that depends to some degree on your background. I grew up in suburbia, and 20 years ago I had much more respect for them.

          Jeeps

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          • jminer
            jminer @Just Jeepin' last edited by

            @just-jeepin That's fair, maybe it's a rural Missouri thing. Our local police were corrupt fuckers then though and everyone knew it. Once it became a black V blue lives matter thing though those stupid blue line flags got hung right next to the stars and bars everywhere.

            Former hoarder of motorcycles, recent CA transplant, nerd.

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            • DipodomysDeserti
              DipodomysDeserti @jminer last edited by

              @jminer Yeah, my dad grew up in New Jersey, and they were mostly viewed as corrupt fucks in the '70s and '80s. He was friends with a few cops growing up, and they were all connected. The dumb agro kids with no skills all became cops (and goombahs) back then.

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              • jminer
                jminer @DipodomysDeserti last edited by

                @dipodomysdeserti This is how it was growing up in the 90s in Missouri. The kids with rage issues became the cops so they could keep bullying people

                Former hoarder of motorcycles, recent CA transplant, nerd.

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                • davesaddiction
                  davesaddiction @jminer last edited by

                  @jminer Jeff City kid here. My brother still lives in Eldon, north of the lake, but my parents moved to Austin a while back.

                  manual . RWD . LS3 . MagneRide . Brembos ... 4 doors + 5 seatbelts

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