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Law enforcement will quietly welcome them

No. Absolutely no cop I’ve ever talked to, and none of my in-laws, want amateurs doing po-po work. It’s as risky and dangerous as amateurs doing surgery or arguing a trial. Cops know the vigilantes who want to ‘help’ the cops are only doing so to be violent thugs with a purpose and absolutely no critical thinking. Randos destroy evidence, botch data gathering, beat up civilians and witnesses and perpetrators alike, and generally complicate things.

Especially in America the standards can seem SO low to become a cop. But these people couldn’t even do that, and you’re thinking cops want to work with them?

Nah.

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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Unfortunately…

theguardian.com/…/joey-gibson-portland-police-rel…

Which led to…

theintercept.com/…/portland-police-proud-boys-pro…

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Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Randos destroy evidence, botch data gathering, beat up civilians and witnesses and perpetrators alike, and generally complicate things.

This assumes the necessity to abide by some sort of more or less legal process by the cops. Once this requirement goes out the window entirely the only question is whether the randos might shoot the wrong people. Otherwise they will be welcomed. Also consider that riot police, patrol runners and other enforcers are a different bunch from investigators, with the investigators being the more educated minority among cops to begin with.

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