Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’

  “And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”

  The officer seems to understand his mistake at least

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The poor copper lost all that time arresting a guy with Plasticine Action on his t-shirt when he could’ve been arresting an old lady with the words “Palestine Action” written down on a piece of paper.

    It’s making it hard for him to make his quota of arrests for that week.

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    • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is why I always imagine it’d be funny to ask a cop “so how many murders got solved this week?” whenever they’re wasting time on mundane shit.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Police solve something like less than 2% of reported crimes.

        Even a libertarian can see this is fucking stupid, imagine a restaurant that gets 2% of its orders correct and served in a timely manner.

        Police do not primarily exist to solve crimes.

        They primarily exist as a goon/thug class to protect property and capital, all other behaviors and effects are ancillary.

        If Police wanted to actually lessen crime, they’d either attack its root causes and use significant parts of their budgets to fund affordable housing and public schools, or massively reorient toward pursuing white collar crime, which is often of such a huge financial scale that it basically directly impoverishes society at a large scale.

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Their job is not to solve crimes, their job is to get people convicted, the subtle difference being that they’ll turn non-crimes into crimes (for example, they’ll chose to legally interpret things which can go both ways as crimes which require prosecution, which is why one often sees kids criminalized for childish bullshit) and it doesn’t matter if the person convicted is innocent, all that matters is that somebody got convicted (so, for example, they won’t try and find exonerating evidence).

        This partly explains their tendency to take an adversarial posture towards people who aren’t from their group, also partly because that posture indirectly feeds back on them (people don’t treat them as they treat other people) and partly because they do tend to get exposed far more than most people to the seedy side of humanity.

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pickering has made copies of the T-shirt, which he is selling through his own website to raise money for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians. It has sold in 28 countries already.

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• OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Start a glassware company called Pal-3 Steins

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