Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
This was great. My biggest hesitation with all these protests about domestic violence and spending a Billion dollars combating it was that I didn’t know what was possible to do about it. Other than de-normalising violence, I couldn’t see what the point was. You can’t exactly pass a law saying it’s illegal to assault and kill people - it’s already illegal.
So, I disagree with this guy on one point: We don’t all know what immediately needs to be done. I had no clue, at least.
I love that when he was challenged, he had a list of things that needed to happen. Now. And he seems to only just be getting started. I’m sold - we need to listen to the people in the trenches who are facing domestic violence. They’re the ones who know what needs to be done.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 months ago
When it comes down to it, cops are the ones dealing with a lot of shit other people avoid. Like you’re saying, we should consider what they have to say about it.
Also, we should give them mental health support. It’s a stressful job with abundant opportunities for trauma. Even if we have no empathy for them, it’s in our best interest to provide tools and support to the people dealing with violent and mentally ill people. But that’s a whole other conversation.
Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Why on earth would we have no empathy for them? I cannot imagine what it takes to hold and comfort a 10 year old child dying in my arms who has been stabbed by their parent. With two kids around that age myself, I’d be a complete wreck! And he’s attended up to 20 domestic violence calls in a night! For years!
Nothing but respect for someone who can do that.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Lemmy is full of anti-police propaganda and pure hatred, it’s wild.
Nath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Most of the vitriol I see is directed at US police. Being an Australian instance, we don’t get that so much.
BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
What’s wild is how people trust cops in this country. Watch the Moonlight State and know the joke is alive and well.
Anamnesis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Here in Seattle the cops don’t fly an American flag outside their union headquarters, only the “thin blue line” flag. In their salary negotiations they sacrificed a week of back pay so their back pay could start on 1/6/2021 (the date of the Capitol insurrection) instead of the end of their last contract. Dozens of our police here in Washington participated in the insurrection. They were under a consent decree for civil rights violations for a decade. When a cop recently ran over a college student while going 74 mph in a 25, the vice president of the police union was caught on camera laughing with the police union president and saying “she was 26 anyway, she had limited value.” Police here have a dismal crime clearance rate, often don’t respond at all to property crimes, or take forever. During the protests in 2020, they were absolutely savage with protestors.
I have no empathy for the police. They are an occupying, militarized force that has zero accountability to the people. Maybe if they started treating citizens like human beings, and holding themselves to a higher standard, I would.