Note: Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
I remember when this would have been funny.
New meta dropped: reduced survival chances for light skin colors.
Community manager notes: “this is not about nerfing the yt player class, this is about increasing the incentive for team play and giving you a greater sense of accomplishment”
My 3yo got a coloring book from a visiting cop at preschool the other day.
First off, he’s 3. Starting that young just shows how much they’ve considered it. A full half of the kids there are black, we’re in a city famous for historical racism.
His moms have established words they don’t want him using yet, like “shoot.” OK, they’re his parents I can understand and respect that. We play with nerf darts and stomp rockets, and never “launch” them at people.
So the coloring book teaches him vocabulary like “suspect,” “pepper spray,” and “stun device.” They’re answers to puzzles.
I made an offhand joke that next year’s coloring book will explain how a “suspect” was “incorrectly adjudicated” by an officer’s “bullet device.”
His moms wisely threw the book away explaining they don’t want to teach about racist, rapist pigs yet. I was so happy. He’ll never know his biological grandmother is a cop-worshipper because she’ll never meet him.
I remember being a kid and “Officer Friendly” visiting our school, then later, Officer Dickens running the D.A.R.E. program we were all forced to go through.
The propaganda is so pervasive that most people never question how wrong it is that cops are authoritarian. Good on you for doing what you can to teach your child the reality of the world.
My 3yo
His moms
they’re his parents
I’m confused. Is that now your kid? What’s going on?
Poster is the Father?
Why would he then exclude himself from [parents]?
Mom divorced dad to marry a woman, got majority custody maybe?
Or likely him calling them the parents was not an exclusive-and type situation.
Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
That depends. Does Billy have an accent?
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Going past single-panel rhetoric, does anyone know any great media to showcase this dichotomy of feeling between what police should be, and what they are?
Something like: Highlighting the life and pride of a police officer that loves the force and sees himself as a hero protecting people - then slowly getting sickened by all the protestors insisting police are horrible - before eventually being exposed to the terrible actions of other police before breaking down and doubting their own life’s mission.
Not exactly the same, but Serpico shows what happens to good cops who reguse to turn a blind eye to corruption, and it’s based on a true story.
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Fingers crossed for Zootopia 3
The Departed is a great movie in general and it’s about two men, one is an undercover cop in the Irish Mafia and the other is a Mafia member working for the cops. They are both trying to figure out who the rat is in their organizations without being found out themselves. May not be exactly what you want, but there’s a TON of police corruption in the movie
Edit: I know I’ve seen End of Watch and I thought it was a good movie, but I don’t remember much of it. Apparently that’s about two LAPD cops who get tangled up in some cartel corruption of their department, so maybe that one too?
The Departed
True OGs know of Infernal Affairs, its where they got the concept from.
I’m definitely gonna have to watch that, thanks for the heads up
Ready Or Not, I think?
On the surface it plays like copaganda, some people certainly call it copaganda, it does have some pro-police elements, but there are several bits of lore that points to cases of police corruption or misbehavior on multiple scales.
some examples (spoilers)
- In one mission, you have to detain a corrupt FISA (= FBI) agent - he may pull out a gun and shoot you, if he feels like he can take you out.
- You have to raid a house where three brothers are illegally modding and selling guns, to pay for their mother’s cancer treatment. She tipped off the cops, to stop her children from getting into too much trouble; if you end up using lethal force, you’re killing the sons of a mother who believed in you in front of her, and the game doesn’t count that as a failure.
- There’s an in-universe equivalent of MKUltra, and the main character is apparently a successful test subject of it. Some speculate that the USIA (= CIA) is artificially facilitating crime in Los Suenos to put you to the test.
- A mission briefing states that a police officer (or many? idr) beats up a detained suspect, who has to be sent to a hospital - the “victim” did massacre an entire night club with his buddies, but still, it’s technically police brutality.
- In the last mission of the base game you find a cargo container with human trafficking victims in it, then a sus conversation happens where another FISA agent butts in the comms and orders you to close it; it’s unclear what’s going on, the entire game teaches you that it’s specifically not your job to take care of injured civilians and whatnot, but the tone of the characters implies that the FISA agent may be trying to cover the tracks of the criminal organization.
If you do a bad job too often (which includes harming civilians and surrendering suspects), your subordinates retire (from the police, I assume).
Not you, though.
MKUltra.
This is messed up
Don’t go around spreading hate just to hate. Sure there are bad cops but there are also a ton of cops who just want to make the world a better place.
They should start within their own ranks then. But everyone who keeps looking away is as bad as the rest.
Might have to? It’s “might get to.”
I’m seeing lots of reports on this for rule #2, and while I think this sort of commentary is obviously the basis of a lot of political bickering, I’m not sure if the framing in the meme itself is wholly political.
I might be way off base making a judgement call here, but I’m going to leave this one be.
And yet so many people voted for her
Alls you have to do is comply.
YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY
Ah the good old days… Back when they gave you a full 20 seconds before shooting you for being unarmed.
every comm is usa politics
TBF this applies too many countries police forces.
Edit; “too” not “to”.
No, “to” is correct.
Apparently Im having a bit of a morning.
Me two!
And me tew.
Me 3
Me :3
I doubt you’d be whining if it were hating on Muslims.
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And now I’m certain you wouldn’t be whining if it were Islamophobia.
This is not a US exclusive issue. Don’t be so US centric.
Oh, my sweet summer child…
Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
IDK man, there might be a slight brownish hue…
Anything not blue is brown
This is the mindset I’ve adapted about the US in the last 10 years. This is the mindset I’ll pass on about the US until I see it change. Police reaching for the gun the second they get a response they don’t like is not good. This is not a society I’d wish to be a part of. Good luck Americans. And godspeed.
