• deadtom@lemmy.world
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    Bootlicker Fantasy: “If you defund the police what are you going to do if someone attacks you?”

    Police Reality: “We hear a citizen being attacked, maybe if we wait it will go away or become someone else’s problem. These things have a tendency to work themselves out where I don’t have to put myself in harms way… the most important thing is assuming no risk so I can get home to my family because I’m a hero.”

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    Police: rolls up in an actual fricking APC, and a bunch of army seals wannabe cops pour out, “ready for action”

    Also the police: we can’t go in there, he has a knife and someone could get hurt!

    Meanwhile, inside: victim literally dying from stab wounds.

    … we pay them for this. We do, with our taxes.

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    Fuck these pieces of shit. They stood by and listened as a woman was brutally murdered RIGHT BY THEM, and instead of doing literally anything, they “called for more experienced backup”

    Fuck a lawsuit, fuck jail time, these motherfuckers deserve exactly the death that they deliberately failed to prevent. Slow and fucking painful.

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        Let’s play hide and go fuck yourself. I’ll count to 10 and you go hide and fuck yourself.

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          Can they fit that onto the door of the squad cars? Seems a much more accurate motto than “To protect and serve.”

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          That was an incredibly articulate response.

          What’s the criteria to get your violence fetish going? Are you an “eye for an eye” type, or does the mere thought of me disagreeing with your bloodlust make you start fantasizing about beating my head in with a lead pipe?

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    That’s not even a slap on the wrist, it’s a rounding error in their budget. This is messed up.

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      For anyone wondering, it’s about the equivalent of just under 0.05% of their city budget about two years ago. Probably less so now as budgets tend to not get smaller.

      So, rounding error isn’t that far off.

      Edit: they also operated at a surplus far greater than this fine as well. Though I will admit I don’t know if they’re still in surplus.