The function of the police is to enact the violence of the state and thus by proxy, capital. Hence, police are by definition always at least some degree of fascist.
CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
As an American, I would like to know, is there any place in the world where the police haven’t gone full fascist?
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
stoy@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
So far the police forces in Finland, Norway and Sweden seems less bad than most.
CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, who would have guessed that the Vikings would end up being the most civilized culture on the planet.
markz@suppo.fi 13 hours ago
Finns weren’t quite vikings
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 9 hours ago
I like to call my finnish friend half russian so he turns bright red and starts throwing his arms around like a blind gorilla
IronBird@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
yall require college degrees for that shit, right?
imagine not just hiring random highschoolers and giving them guns, wack
stoy@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Yeah, it is a decent education that is required to become a police officer here, unfortunately some stupid crap is going on with the police here in Sweden.
- The requirements for being a police officer has been reduced in steps, this is due to the status of the police job has been lowered, so fewer people apply.
- This is infuriatingly stupid. There has been scandals where gang members have infiltrated the police, a few years back an employee of the police was caught letting unauthorized persons access the police database. Then recently I read that management discovered that their background checks of new hires was in some way illegal, and they decided to stop the background checks, but keep hiring new personel, only without checks…
Fucking stupid.
MoreZombies@quokk.au 8 hours ago
Sounds too woke can’t do it apparently
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
This is Melbourne. Australia’s most fascist state. It’s abhorrent.