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How is it worse when the the people that are enforcing laws and making laws are not the same? Or is this just some shitpost?

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I interpreted this as “it’s shitty to write terrible laws, but even shittier to just blithely enforce them and vaguely acklowledge that they are shitty while doing so”.

After all making laws doesn’t itself matter in the slightest, what matters is enforcement so enforcing terrible laws is the worse thing.

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Concrete example: Houston food not bombs. You couldn’t pay me an amount of money to harass people feeding the homeless.

Also, just following orders is not a defense.

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The implication is that cops may acknowledge that a law is unjust, or flat out unconstitutional, but in the end they don’t give a shit and make the invalid “I’m just following orders” excuse to gleefully ruin your life by putting you jail for it anyway.

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I think it would make more sense if it said “I don’t understand the laws, I just enforce them”, which is a very real thing.

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I think OP wants to live in the world of Judge Dredd.

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30 points

They already are depending on your income.

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i don’t like cops but i feel like the meme is kinda dumb

cops are a necessary evil sadly

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They shouldn’t be a necessary evil, they should just be necessary.

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Agreed. Look at Europe. They have the right idea when it comes to police enforcement.

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45 points

They only enforce the laws they like, when they feel like enforcing them.

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I wouldn’t want them making the laws either.

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13 points

You don’t want to read about the police unions lobbying history, then…

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30 points

Sometimes they don’t even know the laws!

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14 points

internet is full of auditor videos where the cops are in the wrong.

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I like the idea of the auditor stuff but a lot of them just seem so insufferable.

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I feel the same way, though I am not from the US so for me it’s for the most part just like looking at how fucked up it is in the US.

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