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Warpy

(110,900 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:01 PM Jun 2020

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop

This essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I’ve never felt confident enough to write it. It’s a time in my life I’m ashamed of. It’s a time that I hurt people and, through inaction, allowed others to be hurt. It’s a time that I acted as a violent agent of capitalism and white supremacy. Under the guise of public safety, I personally ruined people’s lives but in so doing, made the public no safer… so did the family members and close friends of mine who also bore the badge alongside me.

But enough is enough.

The reforms aren’t working. Incrementalism isn’t happening. Unarmed Black, indigenous, and people of color are being killed by cops in the streets and the police are savagely attacking the people protesting these murders.

American policing is a thick blue tumor strangling the life from our communities and if you don’t believe it when the poor and the marginalized say it, if you don’t believe it when you see cops across the country shooting journalists with less-lethal bullets and caustic chemicals, maybe you’ll believe it when you hear it straight from the pig’s mouth.

https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759

Long and brutal examination of what the system is and why it is the way it is. Excellent read. Just be aware you might need a drink or three to get through it.

His recommendations are spot on.

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Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop (Original Post) Warpy Jun 2020 OP
Read that earlier. Good long read. underpants Jun 2020 #1
Also here... WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2020 #2
Sorry, I did look Warpy Jun 2020 #3
I read that too. Yep. He's pretty much right. backscatter712 Jun 2020 #4

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
3. Sorry, I did look
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 01:17 AM
Jun 2020

but my eyes are not great. Didn't mean to steal your thunder, but this really needs to be seen and read.

His recommendations really are spot on.

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
4. I read that too. Yep. He's pretty much right.
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 11:06 AM
Jun 2020

After Occupy a few years ago, and especially after seeing the past couple of weeks of police riots, I will never trust a cop again.

ACAB

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