Why don't you try politicians who pass laws that cops are forced to enforce?
Cops are not "forced" to enforce anything. They get up in the morning and choose to go to work.
Who is worse, the Nazi party member, or the guy pulling the trigger and loading trains? I'd strongly argue the latter.
Laws are by their nature meaningless words on paper without enforcement. Those who enforce the law are MORE CULPABLE than those who write it down, because without enforcers people writing stupid shit "laws" on napkins and parchment are just losers with bad ideas.
Exactly right.
I'm not happy to see police die, but I am very critical of police and their choices. You can't get up every day and enforce bad laws without culpability. You can't stand behind the thin blue line when fellow police are abusive or worse and avoid culpability. The very sad reality is that police as a group have created a huge problem for themselves, and particularly with regard to minorities in America. There is no trust, no expectation that police are there to help. These videos of cops killing blacks are terrible. These ridiculous internal investigations, paid leave for the police, and obvious biases in the system leave the victims of police abuse with nowhere to turn for justice. Worse, none of this is new. Police have been abusing minorities and their own authority for many decades. Modern technology is just revealing what generations of blacks in America have experienced their entire lives.
So, to be clear, I'm not excusing the shooter (and by the way, a single shooter is much more plausible than the multi-shooter story of late last night). Nobody with any sense wants to see innocent people die. Listing the motivations, as I do above, is not sanctioning behavior. But we would be fools to ignore how we got here. Clearly we should do all possible to protect innocent people. At the same time the police have much to do to clean up their own mess. A good start would be putting a massive effort into ridding their ranks of the corrupt and abusive members, scorning paid leave and internal investigations, and just maybe standing up for justice and not excusing themselves when bad laws are left to them to enforce.
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