• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    12 days ago

    So you think that when towns and cities were hiring cops they wanted people who weren’t ‘generally admired?’

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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      12 days ago

      Have you met a cop? They want violent power tripping assholes, they don’t care if anyone admires them. Like I said, the first modern police force was empowered by the state to catch runaway slaves. Most early police forces were used as strike breakers, they weren’t pillars of the community.