Cops have, and always will be members of the community first.
Wishful thinking. Cops typically don't live where they work. Police departments were established to protect the merchant and professional classes in urban areas, performing the traditional function of a county sheriff and a territorial army regiment on a mass scale. The notion they serve the general population is Pollyanna nonsense. I've known a lot of law enforcement. Their jobs aren't boring. I wouldn't, as many would, describe them as toadies. They are troops, though. However modern.
Community events like Gay Pride Parades need to be explicit about having people from all walks of life, putting forward demands that the police have a reduced presence is precisely how you make sure people do not see eachother as people, instead only as the enemy.
Sounds nice. Too bad for all that flowery talk that police have always been natural predators of the LGBTQ community. Or are we supposed to pretend, now that we're some few decades into the sexual revolution in the U.S. and cops no longer openly roust most LGBTQ folks as a matter of course, that it never happened, or still doesn't happen today.
Spend a night in the Tenderloin and see whether ‘community policing’ is fact or fiction.
"But the answer must not be violence. The answer must never be violence."
The greater context here is tragedy. All of these stolen lives are tragic, wounding to so many, and clearly and terribly wrong. As is the context beyond that and so on into regress.
However, since you seem not to know it, the social revolution in the United States around civil rights, womens' and sexual liberation, did not come about without fighting.
It was before the Stonewall Riots that LGBTQ people started fighting back against brutal police raids. You don't get your Disneyfied late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. I've known plenty of the people on all sides of the courtroom to do with some of those struggles, and I can tell you one thing for certain: they were all scared shitless of one another, and that fear kept them safer than they'd've been ofherwise.
That's one reason I'm uncomfortable in suburbs. You meet a better class of person when everyone knows foolishness can get you shot.
Wishful thinking. Cops typically don't live where they work. Police departments were established to protect the merchant and professional classes in urban areas, performing the traditional function of a county sheriff and a territorial army regiment on a mass scale. The notion they serve the general population is Pollyanna nonsense. I've known a lot of law enforcement. Their jobs aren't boring. I wouldn't, as many would, describe them as toadies. They are troops, though. However modern.
Sounds nice. Too bad for all that flowery talk that police have always been natural predators of the LGBTQ community. Or are we supposed to pretend, now that we're some few decades into the sexual revolution in the U.S. and cops no longer openly roust most LGBTQ folks as a matter of course, that it never happened, or still doesn't happen today.
Spend a night in the Tenderloin and see whether ‘community policing’ is fact or fiction.
The greater context here is tragedy. All of these stolen lives are tragic, wounding to so many, and clearly and terribly wrong. As is the context beyond that and so on into regress.
However, since you seem not to know it, the social revolution in the United States around civil rights, womens' and sexual liberation, did not come about without fighting.
It was before the Stonewall Riots that LGBTQ people started fighting back against brutal police raids. You don't get your Disneyfied late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. I've known plenty of the people on all sides of the courtroom to do with some of those struggles, and I can tell you one thing for certain: they were all scared shitless of one another, and that fear kept them safer than they'd've been ofherwise.
That's one reason I'm uncomfortable in suburbs. You meet a better class of person when everyone knows foolishness can get you shot.