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My personal experiences with the police has been 75% good, 25% bad, but I am not readily identifiable as a minority or a member of a subculture. When I had a old, banged-up car I used to get stopped many times in one particularly affluent community, but I was let go once they decided I was "acceptable."
Because we have many bad laws regarding victimless crimes, especially drug laws, many good people would never work in law enforcement. Historically, law enforcement has also been social class and race privilege enforcement Those that do work in LE may be politically unaware or feel that they can work around the bad laws. Others embrace the culture and class/race wars and they are the ones who cause problems in many communities. As long as that continues there will always be police-community clashes. I generally I feel about the police the way I feel about flies, they are necessary for the ecosystem, but often annoying on a personal level.
My personal experiences with the police has been 75% good, 25% bad, but I am not readily identifiable as a minority or a member of a subculture. When I had a old, banged-up car I used to get stopped many times in one particularly affluent community, but I was let go once they decided I was "acceptable."
Because we have many bad laws regarding victimless crimes, especially drug laws, many good people would never work in law enforcement. Historically, law enforcement has also been social class and race privilege enforcement Those that do work in LE may be politically unaware or feel that they can work around the bad laws. Others embrace the culture and class/race wars and they are the ones who cause problems in many communities. As long as that continues there will always be police-community clashes. I generally I feel about the police the way I feel about flies, they are necessary for the ecosystem, but often annoying on a personal level.
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