• rozodru@piefed.world
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    it’s how they’re trained (or how little rather). They’re essentially told that basically every interaction could potentially result in them being attacked and to stay vigilant.

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      It’s not that they’re trained little, it’s that their training encourages antisocial mentality and behavior and they’re never held accountable when they hurt people or break the law

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        And this training causes a self-fulfilled prophecy!

        When you act super paranoid and aggressive because you are literally deathly afraid of every interaction, what happens to a public that is constantly dealing with that level of treatment?

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        And most cops are the dregs of society anyway. Violent sociopaths with control issues and irrational fear of the unknown.