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In reply to the discussion: We must NOT buy into the narrative that a cop's life is worth more than any other [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)a "lawbreaker" and then your assumptions keep skipping down the yellow brick road up to and including standing up for on the spot executions for "lawbreakers" and treating any story a cop spouts as the stuff of stone tablets brought down from Mt Sinai unless on occasion it is shown to be irrefutably false and then guess what they still get "the benefit of the doubt".
Really being reality based means ascertaining the facts not choosing who to hang the benefit of the doubt on an calling it a day.
There is nothing fact oriented about eating up whatever a cop tells you. In fact, it is stupid these are neither the wisest, nor brightest, and far from the most honest of folk. Just workaday people ready to get off like most but swimming in an isolationist and toxic culture doing a job that attracts some less than desirable elements. The hero worship is very misplaced.
Privileged positions are a logical fallacy and you recognize it but insist on sticking to it for the sacred cow.
Before you bother, I'm not on here trying to paint myself as "reality based" (in my experience those that do are almost always full of shit) nor some neutral Nelly "honest broker". I'll tell you straight up I'm not a fan or a believer in the "few bad apples" canard. I think they are a racist institution, I believe they see themselves as above the law, I do not believe they see themselves as servants of the people but above us, increasingly they operate as occupiers and see the populations as perps until proven otherwise, I believe there is a profound disrespect for the general public, they despise civilian control and oversight, and when push comes to shove little respect much less love for the law except when they are on trigger end of it.
Just be honest about your perspectives with your audience and especially yourself. Own your perspective.