Comment on Woman refuses to pay restaurant bill

• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So? Maybe he doesn’t behave like this towards black men, maybe he does. We can’t tell.

  What we can tell is that in this exact instance, this specific cop, was really patient. What I know about training dogs and kids is that positive affirmation works wonders. So can we just for once drop the ACAB attitude and praise this cop? Who knows, maybe getting praised will feel nice, and make the cop want it to happen again.

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • Hawanja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Doesn’t matter if this one was “patient.” They’re ALL supposed to be “patient,” that’s the fucking point. Cops are not digs or children, they’re supposed to know better. The fact that he could’ve brutalized this woman and none of us would be surprised shows how much police using excessive force has been normalized.

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    no

    ACAB for a reason so just no

    you don’t get head pats for basic decency, especially towards a white woman

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    • 5gruel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      you’re so beyond saving

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      • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        oh no whatever will i do

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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Maybe he does” is crazy. No.

    No, I don’t think I will praise him for doing his one job sanely.

    “I don’t know if you were more restrained because this was a (wealthy-seeming) white woman. Regardless, I just wanted to thank you for not escalating this like cops normally do, applying gross impositions on citizens’ rights or murdering someone.”

    I would sooner accept thanking baristas for not spitting in our drinks than thank cops for the bare minimum of being a prosocial person.

    He didn’t do something massive, like put himself in undue danger in the line of duty. He didn’t do something extra, like offer someone in the rain, a car ride home. Those would be something to praise him for. He sat there in authority granted to him by his uniform and did his job, as a person, instead of as a lunatic.

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    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do you want change? Or do you want to keep the status quo? Because if you want change, then be the change.

      In a perfect world, you shouldn’t have to be mindful of training your civil servants. I mean not in any perfect world adjacent societies should you. But here we are, in a absolutely imperfect world so…

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      • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I can’t even grapple with the idea that the thing that will stop cops from maiming and murdering minorities is being nice to them more of the time. People are generally already deferential to them because they have guns and uniforms.

        Cops have turned into this after the 80s and 90s, the very height of cop propaganda. Where being a cop or a detective was one of the coolest things to be. It is incumbent on them, for their terrible behavior, to regain positive public opinion.

        I never said to spit in their faces, but they don’t deserve applause for this level of job performance. People don’t applaud doctors and nurses every time they listen to some inane, self-inflicted idiocy from a patient without going postal

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