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  • Maryland police officer convicted of tossing smoke bomb at police during Capitol riot

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  • As I said, I wrote my dissertation on policing in minority ethnic communities. I specifically went out of my way to understand the sensitivities before I started the career. I also have a master's degree in human rights law, and continue to work in the legal field dealing with these topics every day. I am far better placed than most to understand both sides of the situation (though I'd argue against the assumption that there are 'sides').

    How can you say there are all these videos all the time when I haven't even said where I'm from? Because in my country, incidents like what I see often from America are extremely rare.

    I dismiss the ACAB movement because it is by definition reductionist. When you say ALL of something is anything in society then I will immediately raise my eyebrows to that claim. Society is not that simple.

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  • The point still stands.

    Here in my country we've had a lot of very high profile cases of abuse and even serial murder in the healthcare profession. It's also a position of power that can attract the wrong sort, and it's very well researched how the healthcare sector is institutionally racist and provides worse outcomes - even death - to minority ethnic communities. Are all doctors bastards?

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  • If it's not the point that all cops are bad then why do you use a phrase which states the exact opposite? How can you, with a straight face, justify a stance and narrative that intentionally removes nuance as you just said?

    The whole black lives matter thing isn't relevant to my country so I won't comment on that as I quite simply don't know enough about it.

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  • I will reply, because I don't agree with your perception and the implications of your comment.

    1. How many times have I casually broken the law and felt okay doing it

    In work? Literally never. Not once. Everything is recorded in BWV and is disclosable in court. Documentation and usually a statement is required for the exercise of any legal power. It's all auditable. We even had community engagement groups who watch videos of incidents chosen at random by a computer, and I've had several of mine pulled up for feedback by them.

    Putting aside the obvious ethical reasons why I haven't done that and wouldn't want to. Why would I risk my career and income anyway?

    1. How many times have I seen another officer break the law and protected them?

    Never. Not once. I have reported multiple colleagues in the past for doing things which I thought were questionable, and those concerns were always appropriately actioned by management. I faced no consequences from my peers or the organisation for doing so.

    Your presumptions are incorrect. Maybe they are correct where you live, I don't know, but they're not my experience at all. For what it's worth, I'm not American.

    I'm not saying these things don't happen and as I've said repeatedly, I'm not saying modern policing is without issues. As someone who has worked in the criminal justice system for years with multiple degrees in the area, your perception of how things actually work in real life and how those problems manifest are not correct, and your judgements towards individuals (including myself) are totally unfair and without nuance.

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  • I also said this:

    There ARE problems with policing in 2024, as there always have been before, and they need acknowledging and fixing.

    It's called nuance.

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  • But the phrase literally means "all cops are bastards".

    It is LITERALLY and DIRECTLY saying that every individual officer has the characteristic of being a bastard.

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  • I'm an ex cop and the whole attitude is really reductionist and lacks any insight into how police organisations actually tend to work. Especially when it comes to large forces with tens of thousands of officers and staff - for example, by assuming that corrupt officers and cultures are evenly distributed throughout an organisation, which they're not. It just doesn't work like that and it's a frankly juvenile attitude lacking in any nuance.

    I'm saying this as someone with a degree in Criminology (in which my dissertation was on policing in ethnically diverse communities), a Master's in human rights law, and several years of experience in a large force (which I left due to service related PTSD). I feel quite qualified to comment on it. ACAB is detached from how corruption actually works in the real world, discounts the good work of a lot of very good people, and offers zero solution or viable alternative. I can completely understand having a negative impression of the police given their media attention these days but ACAB is teenager-level critical thinking that does not acknowledge the complexity of the problem and spits in the face of many good people.

    To be clear I'm not just bootlicking - I hated my previous employer (for separate reasons) and have no good will for them. There ARE problems with policing in 2024, as there always have been before, and they need acknowledging and fixing. But the ACAB narrative doesn't work for me. And it's more than a little ironic that you are using that narrative while simultaneously criticising an "us vs them" approach.

  • A nearly comical reminder that corporations aren't your friend.

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  • It is as insane as it sounds. Yes, alternative dispute resolution is perfectly commonplace and indeed in many countries - such as mine - there is an expectation that you attempt ADR before bringing a matter to court, unless there is some reason why you couldn't.

    That's fine. That's not an issue.

    Disney claimed that due to the terms and conditions of the Disney+ video streaming service, anyone who has or had a subscription agrees to resolve any and all disputes with Disney through mediation and they therefore waive any recourse through the courts. For absolutely any form of dispute, even a wrongful death.

    That is absolutely insane and evil to even attempt and there is no justifying it.

  • In a classified document approved in March, the president ordered U.S. forces to prepare for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and DPRK.

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  • Isn't that kinda the whole point of them? I'm more surprised they hadn't done so already.

  • [UK] Children to be taught how to spot fake news and 'putrid' conspiracy theories online in wake of riots

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  • In fairness, this isn't massively new and I was taught similar back when I was in school. It was genuinely a really good life skill to teach to kids and it was politically neutral.

  • [UK] Children to be taught how to spot fake news and 'putrid' conspiracy theories online in wake of riots

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  • I went to a state school in the UK and remember being taught media literacy, this would've been just over 10 years ago now. I don't know if it was part of the curriculum or just something they decided to add (while it was a state school, it was a very good one in a wealthy area).

    We were told to read headlines and guess what the story was about, then we were shown a neutral article that objectively described what happened to highlight how misleading the headlines and pictures were. Among other things, but that sticks out in my mind.

    I honestly think it was a fantastic life skill to teach.

  • New rioting across UK cities as arrests multiply

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  • It was neither the stabbing nor the vigil.

    It's uneducated white thugs who have been told for years that immigrants and Muslims are the reason they're struggling.

  • Elon Musk's UK 'civil war' post criticised by No 10

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  • I do. Comments like his are actively contributing towards the racist violent disorder taking place right now. It's disgusting.

  • Very weird behavior

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  • Wrong colour immigrant

  • IDF commanders gave order to blow up Rafah reservoir. Army suspects breach of int'l law

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  • I'm more thinking "see, we DO prosecute war crimes, that proves that all that other stuff was fine".

  • Olympic athlete amputates finger to play in 2024 Paris Games

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  • To you, sure. The world is a big place.

  • Olympic athlete amputates finger to play in 2024 Paris Games

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  • Tbh I kinda get it. The below is my immediate thoughts but perhaps there's another angle I'm not considering.

    If you're a professional player at that level then the sport is your life. You've probably been training since you were a child and you've completely dedicated yourself to it. Training almost every day, not doing things that other people get to do so as not to harm your performance, which probably affects your relationships.

    In any sport where physicality is concerned, you have an expiry date. You will inevitably age out. It's just a fact of life.

    The Olympics is arguably the most culturally significant and important sporting event in human history so far, or at least one of them.

    I can see why someone who has dedicated their life to their sport would make this decision to play in that event, even if they've already done it before, because they WILL age out of it sooner or later. And really, is one missing finger going to be that much of an impairment for the rest of his life? I'm guessing it's not a thumb so... Probably not.

    I think the decision is understandable and rational. I wouldn't choose it myself, but I'm not a professional athlete who has dedicated their life to what they do.

  • MrBeast collaborator Ava Kris Tyson leaves YouTube channel after online users accuse her of grooming

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  • Doesn't sound like she really did anything wrong. Apart from maybe an error in judgment in making some jokes in poor taste on a Discord server.

  • Mexico City police chief shot dead in ‘drug cartel hit’

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  • I don't know anything about the guy but it must take some serious balls to do a job like that in Mexico City.