Fuck the Police

Ibby · 01-05-2013, 12:19 AM

I've met a couple cops who were REAL shitbags.
I've met FAR MORE who are really good, decent folks.

that doesn't mean that law enforcement in this country isn't fucked up to the core, and especially fucked up when it comes do dealing with oppressed groups. I could definitely dredge up the dire, awful statistics about how law enforcement consistently and systematically disproportionately prosecutes trans* people, people of color, and women, and especially people at the intersections of those oppressions. So the default, especially for, for example, people like me, is to assume the cops aren't going to be "on our side".

the problem is less individual cops, and more the system itself.

Which is why I would NEVER flip off a cop. Or even be the littlest bit rude to them. That's a privilege I don't have.

01-05-2013, 12:19 AM	#6
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	I've met a couple cops who were REAL shitbags. I've met FAR MORE who are really good, decent folks. that doesn't mean that law enforcement in this country isn't fucked up to the core, and especially fucked up when it comes do dealing with oppressed groups. I could definitely dredge up the dire, awful statistics about how law enforcement consistently and systematically disproportionately prosecutes trans* people, people of color, and women, and especially people at the intersections of those oppressions. So the default, especially for, for example, people like me, is to assume the cops aren't going to be "on our side". the problem is less individual cops, and more the system itself. Which is why I would NEVER flip off a cop. Or even be the littlest bit rude to them. That's a privilege I don't have. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

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