City “uncomfortable” with police patches
Although thin blue line patches clearly contravene the SPVM’s rules on uniform embellishment, the most the city will say in this article is that they “have a discomfort” with it.
This is one of the times I want to ask bluntly: who’s in charge of our police? Because all too often it seems they’re a law unto themselves, and not too concerned about responding to the democratically elected city government.
steph 11:10 on 2022-02-17 Permalink
The police’s job is to maintain order. The order of things isn’t something they’re interested in changing, any disruption or change to that higharchy (including giving rights to groups that didn’t have them before) is a change of order. ACAB.
You’ll never see a POC with a thin blue line patch/flag. Everyone knows it’s a symbol of racism and white supremacy, it should obviously be banned and the offending officers punished.
YUL514 11:19 on 2022-02-17 Permalink
“who’s in charge of our police?”
Police union probably, they have too much power. It’s why we can’t get body cams on them.
qatzelok 13:16 on 2022-02-17 Permalink
Policemen, like truckers and nurses, are working class people who have to perform a useful function for other people. This is not the group that is resonsible for social inequality or the resultant breakdown in social peace.
When rich powerful entities criticize workers, they shouldn’t be imitated.
dwgs 10:39 on 2022-02-18 Permalink
qatzelok, have you ever gone outside?
qatzelok 14:29 on 2022-02-18 Permalink
I go outside every day. For hours and hours.
And, more relevantly, I support ALL demonstrations against abuses of power, and not just those that correspond to my own tribe’s interests.