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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This is Melbourne. Australia’s most fascist state. It’s abhorrent.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
No, they’re the voilet arm of governments. A police force is a sign of a failed state. You’re just outsourcing your bullying and violence.
This chain of ludicrous events
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/…/105474690
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/…/105794888
www.9news.com.au/…/d1a3613f-8884-40cb-a48a-150b83…
Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So far the police forces in Finland, Norway and Sweden seems less bad than most.
CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, who would have guessed that the Vikings would end up being the most civilized culture on the planet.
markz@suppo.fi 3 weeks ago
Finns weren’t quite vikings
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
yall require college degrees for that shit, right?
imagine not just hiring random highschoolers and giving them guns, wack
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
Fucking stupid.
MoreZombies@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Sounds too woke can’t do it apparently