「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 18 days agoHow would you feel if someone moved next to your residence and you found out they're a cop? Would you move away? Or try to get on their good side? Or something else?message-squaremessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up178
arrow-up178message-squareHow would you feel if someone moved next to your residence and you found out they're a cop? Would you move away? Or try to get on their good side? Or something else?「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 18 days agomessage-square80linkfedilink
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoThat looks a whole lot like like practices you don’t like, but which are legal.
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-217 days agoI think you, like they, are abusing the term legal.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 days agoYeah, but this entire thread is about a cop being involved with literal organised crime, not figurative or metaphorical organised crime. In another context, maybe we’d be talking about moral and not legal, but what you go to jail for is the distinction here.
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoMurder and robery are crimes.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoIn another context they’re lawful execution and taxation. Actually, government in general is racketeering with better PR. Most cops are pretty good about only affiliating with the government, out of possible users of force.
That looks a whole lot like like practices you don’t like, but which are legal.
I think you, like they, are abusing the term legal.
Yeah, but this entire thread is about a cop being involved with literal organised crime, not figurative or metaphorical organised crime.
In another context, maybe we’d be talking about moral and not legal, but what you go to jail for is the distinction here.
Murder and robery are crimes.
In another context they’re lawful execution and taxation. Actually, government in general is racketeering with better PR.
Most cops are pretty good about only affiliating with the government, out of possible users of force.