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cops are not workers (quokk.au)
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A meme featuring a crying police officer saying, "We are workers too! Have solidarity!" countered by a character with blue hair stating, "Cops are not workers. Unlike a worker, a cop breaking up a strike is not producing value for the capitalist class. Instead, cops are enforcing the structures of labor production themselves. This is a vastly different relationship of production than that of workers."
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

what about arresting crims

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago
    • cops do not prevent crime : they'd rather let the crime happen to make an arrestation in order to have good stats. Futhermore arresting someone actually de-socialized them, leading to precarity, leading to criminality.
    • cops do no protect You may trie to fill a case against your boss of against sexual violence. A lot of time, it will not help. When it does, it to try to know what are the victims need, and isolate them from their social network
    • the function of police is not to fight crime Foucault 101 there. In short : criminality exists because of its interdiction. Immoral or dangerous things could legal, moral or healthy things could be illegal. Criminality exists because Police exists, and they both have a social function : keep the social order in place. That's why law focus on things poor people do and not what powerful people are doing

    If you point is : "some things done by individual could not be tolerated", we agree. However punishment do not stop this thing to happen, and those things could be done by cops, magistrate or powerful people too. restorative justice an stuff

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