Cops serve the ruling class. It’s why they’re trying so hard to find the CEO killer.
People with jobs serve their paycheck. People with authority let it go to their heads. Cops are the combination of the two.
Praise Muad’dib!
Refresh your feed. They found him.
Yup, I saw an hour or so ago. Very odd to conveniently still have the weapon with him as well as a manifesto.
The cops can plant as much evidence on Luigi as they want, that doesn’t make him The Adjuster.
If only there were some way we could influence laws and how they are enforced…
I’ve been saving up for some space tourism, but you’re right, it’s time to buy a senator. (This is sarcasm.)
If robbers only earn $7500 a year why on earth do they do it? Why would anyone risk arrest, jail time, criminal record, maybe even being shot by armed security or police, for such a paltry amount of money?
Desperation
You’ll notice that organized crime (ya know, as a metric of success) doesn’t usually rely on robberies as their source of income. Robberies are risky and stupid.
Also armed bank robbery is VERY heavily punished. In some places armed robbery with a gun (even a fake gun) can be punished by LIFE in prison.
You and I hear life in prison, a homeless person hears shelter for life
Life in prison is hell. The food is positively horrific (I’ve heard of fecal matter and even insects being in some of their food) and you still need to work every day like a (literal in this case) slave.
I don’t doubt that, but a lot of homeless people see living on the street as worse than living in prison
Because drugs.
Because that number was totally pulled out of their butt.
Oh, because of the primary driver of most kinds of crime:
Poverty.
If you want to lower crime, you lower poverty, you put social safety nets in place.
Does this solve crime 100%?
No, but its something like one hundred to ten thousand times more cost effective than not doing that and increasing policing instead.
… America is a country where homeless people routinely commit bank robberies with unloaded guns and then surrender to police … because at least then they get some level of permanent shelter, food, and health care.
Cop: “So anyway I started blastin”
For the record, it’s specifically CEOs of S&P 500 companies that make an average of ~18 million/yr.
https://aflcio.org/paywatch/highest-paid-ceos
The Standard and Poor’s 500 is ~500 of the largest companies in the country that are publicly traded. It does not include the vast majority of CEO positions in the US, just the biggest.
Why would I investigate my employer? A healthy chunk of that $15B in CEO salary works its way back into the hands of officers via lobbying for increased pay/benefits, kickbacks to police unions and sheriff’s society’s, and direct hiring for police “consultants” and overpaid rent-a-cops.
If burglars want to enjoy these benefits, they need to get back to the old school way of doing business. Get. Mobbed. Up. You didn’t see Irish cops bothering the American wing of the IRA or Italian cops hassling the mafia. Burglars need to do the same thing as the rest of the working class and get organized. One stick is easily broken. A bundle is far sturdier.
They are mobbed up. Always have been. If you’d been to prison and followed the unwritten rules then you’d already know.
Robbers are committing violent crime mostly against the working class.
Cops should go after both robbers and robber barons.
Ah yes, let’s try and justify one crime by comparing it to another one, conveniently ignoring the fact that neither are victimless. And I don’t even mean the material cost, I mean the fact that the trauma of being robbed can affect a person for life. Here’s a thought, how about trying to make everything black and white we can decide that multiple things can be bad, even in different amounts?
Honestly it seems the entirety of lemmy is just political extremists that will down vote any opinion that isn’t in their ball park and only care about political talking points. I swear I miss reddit where I could have a feed of interesting stuff where I could scroll for 5 minutes in the toilet without seeing shit like this.
This kind of shit is why lemmy doesn’t gather mass adoption
If I’ve learned anything it’s that nuance is lost on the internet.
What did you call my mom?
who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom…
You’re not fooling anyone. We know exactly who you are.
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You don’t know dick. ACAB, and so are other people who cause suffering for their own profit.
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You’re choosing ad hominem and red herring over humility and questions. That’s not sustainable.
We recruit for life. Whenever you’re ready we will still be here teaching the same exact lessons we’ve been teaching for millennia.
No rush. It’s not like you’re suffering or the planet is dying. Get around to it whenever.
You’re choosing ad hominem
“You aren’t fooling anyone. We know exactly who you are.”
This u?
If I give you a benefit of the doubt then you’re a pacifist. Where you’re going wrong is in believing that everyone else should also be a pacifist.
Even the Green Party would kick you to the curb. You’re a lone wolf that’ll stagnate in neoliberalism like all the other lone wolves. It’s a net negative to engage. Even if you wanted to learn the majority would turn you down because a Trump supporter would be a better prospective student.
Remember: You’ll always be judged by the quality of your questions.
Good luck.
Bonus panel. The cop just shoots him.
Not the bonus panel we deserve, but the bonus panel we get.
The true secret bonus panel is when the cop gets the bonus for the shooting.
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The source looks like https://linktr.ee/massesutd though the dude doesn’t appear to have a website, just links to a bunch of gated websites that I can’t access without an account.
The machine works as intended.
Robbers are (allowed to be) part of it so they can take the focus, all the fingerpointing, be the big bad wolf mascot.
How does one create this comic and completely ignore that cops stealing via civil asset forfeiture take more than cops
There would still be people who stole if we lived in a socialist paradise. And they would still want to be called boss.
I know this is fiction
because irl a cop would not reflect on his actions.
He would just shoot & kill this man on the spot.
