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Have you been stolen from? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 months ago by cashmaggot@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Has someone or something stolen from you? Do you know who/what it was? Did it affect you? Do you care?

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

but the police couldn't care less.

The police protect property, not people. Your property was just too insignificant for them to care about.

If you have a net worth in the many dozens of millions at minimum, they respond much better to even tiny incidents like that.

[–] cashmaggot@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

I think they protect certain people. I also think there are some good cops out there. People state outright that all cops are bad cops if they are part of an institution of evil. But I mean...my existence whether I like it or not is fueling harm in other locations. And I am still buying in, soooooo.

I only say this because I have legitimately met good cops and bad cops. But I also know bad cops are fucking brutal to minorities (and sometimes even to majorities). And they are firm believers in guilty until proven innocent. But they don't fuck with a lot of shit, and have most def been terrifyingly atagonistic in some situations of my life and radically aloof in others (like say, a child being raped). So yeah. It's just something I sit around and "huh" at because I am not sure what else to do.

I will also say that crime in Seattle where they shooed out the cops went up ten fold. But that cops in Seattle are racist pigs. So...eh? But shout out to that one cool cop I saw in Tacoma who was trying his best to just be a human!