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He made me laugh
Guy drawing dicks: “I make people laugh when the world is on fire, people are dying, and the police is the police”
The person drawing dicks is providing a far greater service to society than the Cops.
I saw the alternative version first and it makes so much more sense
ACAB
Police do not stop crimes, at least not here in the USA. Police punish after the crime happens, at best.
Okay but it’s literally a picture of a police officer showing that the criminal is already behind bars. Thereby preventing that criminal from committing future crimes. That is one way to stop crimes.
That’s the logic behind prison, but not the reality.
Locking a person in a cage does not solve whatever underlying issue led to the crime in the first place. The resulting trauma and stigma almost certainly makes it worse once they get out of prison causing crimes.
Or they are locked in a cage forever for the most menial of crimes, at which point they themselves are the victims of a greater crime.
The police commit crimes. All Cops Are Bastards
Still more respect then the 3rd panel.
Guys, the joke only works with the third panel. What other job should be put there?
Teacher? Garbage collector? Librarian? County Clerk?
Literally almost any public service job?
Last panel makes me miss Hyperbole and a Half. It’s just missing a ponytail that looks like a hat.
That last one is making a chalk outline of Mike Johnson. A worthy cause.
[At least] One of these are lying.
Copaganda
That cop is about to shoot that dude already in jail
the dead cant do crimes so he’s stopping them from ever happening i guess
Well, that dude does have darker skin, so just keeping with tradition.
And that criminal looks like they’re awfully happy about it
He hates the nightlife. He hates to boogie.
Nicotine.
Same…
EDIT: And can confirm, holding smokers at gunpoint is a valid reaction.
Does the bottom left one actually do that though?
Minorities cant commit crimes if they are dead/jailed so yes. in a way
Should say something more like, “I harass minorities and protect corporate interests.”
“I wield a monopoly on violence to uphold the status quo.”
Fine
“I provide a reference number so you can make an insurance claim”
They don’t even fucking do that these days.
Only for the insurance company to deny coverage because Mercury was in retrograde during a waxing moon which nullifies the claim. Is outlined in the product disclosure statement that you said you read. On page 34 of 72.
In civilized countries, yes.
I imagined that everywhere cops mostly react to crimes already committed. Less frequently but still frequently they prevent crimes by their presence. Much less frequently would they have the opportunity to stop a crime in progress.
Well yes, they can’t materialize at a crime scene - that’s kinda obvious.
That would be pretty spooky.
I’d argue it’s more deterrent than ‘stopping’ in most cases. I’d also argue they’re not much more deterring than knowing someone with a gun, some friends, and the ability to use said gun is around. At least for the petty stuff that doesn’t take a jail system to break up.
In my experience, cops are extremely fast tho - at least in larger cities. If you live somewhere rural or even in the middle of nowhere, well, they’re going to need some time to be there. It’s not like they can just materialize at a crime scene.
I’d also argue they’re not much more deterring than knowing someone with a gun, some friends, and the ability to use said gun is around
Are you saying you want people to own guns?
People already own guns (in the US anyways). They just don’t usually have the free pass to use it like cops have.
Cops deterred me from having a productive life, leaving me a wreck with PTSD, after a gang of thugs broke into my home, tied me up, stole my medicine, and threatened to have me be raped as their prisoner for over a decade. And I could not call the cops on them, because they were the cops.
That’s where the hero stories that go nationwide come from.
- hero cop stops a mall mass shooter
- watch this cop escort pregnant woman to hospital with full sirens
- off duty cop does chest compressions until ambulance arrives
- cop talks down POC with a knife/gun
A few good apples shine up the bunch
There’s one, just one, in all of The Laughing Auditor’s vids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEdjDKh6h2Y
Also worth remembering that stories like that go nationwide because they’re unusual. If cops did that on any sort of routine basis it wouldn’t be newsworthy.
Anything you say
Can and will be used
Against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice
Before we ask you any questions.
Read between the lines
Absolutely. Just because shitty cops make the news doesn’t mean that no cop stops crime ever.
Cops almost never stop crimes. Even when they rarely do their job correctly they just show up afterwards to arrest people. Thats also how it should be, but recently it seems like politicians are hellbent on making them “prevent” crimes before they happen which requires lots of privacy invasion.
I’ve seen police commit crimes and breach statutory regulations an order of magnitude more than I’ve seen other people do so… and they’re, what, 1% of the population? If that? … Which means on average they’re each generating about 1000 times more crime than each member of the public are, and not catching the culprits, let alone preventing it. They’re causing it, and letting the perpetrators get away with it, because they are the perpetrators.
Cops, paramedics, and fight fighters are all inherently reactive forces. While more could be done for them to be proactive outside of the fire department most of those proactive measures are outside of their perview.
I’d love frequent visits from the fire service, to check up on eliminating fire hazards around my home, making sure I have the correct fire extinguishing equipment and know how to use it, checking fire detectors and alarms, etc.
Even if cops acted the way we thought they did when we were kids, it’s nearly impossible to stop/prevent crime unless they were already there beforehand. Security guards prevent more crime than cops.
Just encountered this chan today, and in this 2 parter, it mentioned a way that eliminated nearly all crime … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVK-hZh2vM
Add ending poverty to that… and what else is there?
Close. Politicians are hellbent on making them invade privacy, using “preventing” crimes before they happen as a pretext.
Also, petty crimes can be prevented without surveilence by robust social safety nets.
Fascism and grift (or chronic violence and lying crimes), including in the workplace, have to be manually overthrown by tolerant in-group unity.
