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Originally Posted by Birdman10687
mets has an idealized view of cops that they exist to protect us from criminals
he gets that idealized view from decades of copganda in tv shows, movies, in the news, in the education system, etc
so it is just a question of if he will ever understand the actual material reality of the cops or if he will cling to that idealized view
however, there is a world where even if he understands the material reality of the cops it wouldn't matter. Ultimately as a middle class white man in America, the cops exist the perpetuate a status quo that he is largely a beneficiary of. Going back to that quote by Engels, for the most part revolutions are borne out of material conditions that force them to happen. That material conditions do not force mets to be anti-cop like it does if you are poor or black.
you have this warped view that most cops are evil and not here to protect us, when i know cops and most cops are good people and try to protect their communities
Bird thinks that all cops are the bad ones and the good ones are the outliers when its the other way around
that all being said, it communities of color, there very well may be broken systems where bad cops get rewarded and those departments need to be REIMAGINED not abolished like they did in Camden.
traffic tickets is a good example. most traffic laws are there for safety reasons, and tickets are given to deter people from breaking the law
at times, certain police departments, or cops, may take advantage of the system ands give extra unnecesary tickets to make money, or budget, or a cop may write tickets for overtime, etc. there is obviously corruption
your solution would not be to stop the corruption or bad use of policiing.. it would be to abolish traffic laws because some police depts expolit them.