• @jaschen@lemm.ee
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    129 months ago

    A good friend of mine has an older brother that is a state trooper and I have heard him say … “… A dead suspect can’t defend himself in court” multiple times.

    But I also my tenant who is a new state trooper and he is the nicest guy I have ever met. Maybe he isn’t tainted yet.

    • @UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world
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      69 months ago

      My father is a retired cop and a genuinely good guy. Despite that, he still listens to Conservative radio and rants about the rising crime rates and how the US needs to do a better job of enforcing the “rule of law”. No matter how nice a cop may be, they still participate in a system that hammers into them that the only way to reduce crime is more policing. It’s a system that perpetuates itself by spreading fear.