• Victor@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Very interesting, thank you for this input. This is the kind of insight I was looking for. I guess I was focused on this part:

    It doesn’t mean I think every cop is personally bad in their private professional life.

    But as you say, merely participating in the system makes them bad. Not individually, but as a concept.

    In that case, I think it’s important not to blame the cops, but the system. Because we all know there are many of them who are not trying to uphold the unjust laws, but the just laws. Sometimes in life you have to take the good with the bad, and surely that is what many officers are doing.

    All those individuals are trying to do is make a positive impact on their community, and protect its members.

    So in this type of reasoning, I think we’re putting the focus on the wrong thing, the cops. Whereas we should be putting the focus on regulators, law makers, etc.