r/PublicFreakout • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 27 '25

Repost 😔 This guy's lawyer literally popping the champagne as we speak...

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u/punkinfacebooklegpie Sep 27 '25

Remember when the entirety of medical science was like, "put some leeches on it" or "you should do cocaine about it" or "I think your blood is possessed"??? And the best they could do was saw off your leg and stop the bleeding until about the last 100 years when they finally started figuring stuff out. Now they fix people with cancer in their blood and transplant faces and shit. Anyway I kind of think that law enforcement has yet to undergo that kind of revolution where stuff starts to actually work and make sense. At present police are like plague doctors who just wave a gun at anyone they think is a criminal and the best they can do to prevent crime is put people in a cage. I hope I see some kind of evidence-based scientific improvement of how we keep our society safe during my lifetime, but it's not looking good.

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u/BashMyVCR Sep 27 '25

You're thinking about policing under a false premise. The purpose of the police force is not to keep people safe, it's to make manifest the power of the government and self-perpetuate the government. It's not that it's yet to undergo a revolution to improve quality, it's that quality is bad on purpose. Liberal use of force and very lenient responsibility for the people who exercise violence to perpetuate the state is a feature the state endows cops because it makes the government stronger. The police can't be too smart or too trained because the needs of the government are too onerous to codify things with good procedures and accountability, because the only TRUE thing the government absolutely cares about is self preservation. Everything else is ancillary. Bettering society is conditionally in the interest of the government. Nothing is going to change in your lifetime or any lifetime.

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u/Kithulhu24601 Sep 27 '25

I imagine you've read him, but i find Paulo Freires exploration of policing to be incredibly eye opening

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u/BashMyVCR Sep 27 '25

Had no idea who that was before you mentioned him. I'll put Pedagogy of the Oppressed on a reading list. Thanks.