what the fuck
Sadly, this is the rule and not the exception. We have a massive problem with racism and right ideology in our police. Power corrupts.
Eh, I don’t think “power corrupts” applies mostly in these situations. That would imply these cops weren’t racists or pedos until they joined the force and got that power.
In these cases I think it’s more that these bad people, racists and pedos, seek out the positions of power that are available to them - law enforcement positions.
But yeah I totally agree law enforcement has a problem of being extremely far right. If it is, which it is known, then people with similar ideologies will flock to those positions even more.
I mean, I get what both of you are saying, but I’d argue that the phrase “power corrupts” still applies here.
It’s a feedback loop of being above the law that feeds into these police gangs (like the one in Texas, I believe, that were called because “two black men are staying with a white woman.” The gang went over and sexually assaulted and then pulled the trigger of a gun they shoved in one of the two guys’ mouth. They literally pulled the “let’s sprinkle a little crack on ‘em and get out of here” move. They said it was a drug deal gone wrong—yes, they planted drugs.)
These guys push each other to test the limits of their power abuse further and further. Just like 4chan users tried to one-up each other’s shocking memes and shit, these groups of cops try to out-“badass” each other.
So I do think that their power plays a part in this. Of course the power didn’t make them racist pedophiles, but—especially in Germany, they got a taste of getting away with things people never get away with, and they explore those things. In Germany, sharing and displaying swastikas is illegal. So, I think the taste of untouchability that comes with being a cop definitely fed into their sharing and espousing these views.
Yeah I can agree to say that power corrupts even worse. Or maybe power amplifies the already corrupt.
My only argument was that these types generally don’t start out as bright shining stars, then the position of power corrupts. They’re probably already bad.
But yeah the power then probably can make it worse.
My biggest question is how the fuck do we fix this? Difficult not to feel hopeless.
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I agree on the point that “they are racist/pedo because of the power they receive” is pretty much false in this situation.
But i would say that this is not the only meaning behind “Power corrupts”. (What follows is only a personnal opinion, there may be some wrong usage of terms or anything) To me, it also means that power corrupts our ways of thinking : believing in a strong power, even if you do not hold it, tends to makes this power more important than human lives or conditions. Like “Police is important, so it’s okay if some peoples get hurt to protect it”. In other words, the more you believe in power, the more it may become an end rather than a tool. This is were the corruption is to me.
I think that people get racist because they believe in some kind of great cause that should held power (like Homeland, Historical Background, Race, etc.). Then they consider normal to use power for this cause, even if it is against other people. Maybe it’s not the same thing for getting attracted to young people. But doing pedo crimes always involve some power in the very act of it, and to some extent in the decision making that led to it.
To sum it up, imo the hate and weird attraction of those cops basically mean that they think they have, or that they should have, a legitimate power over other people (minorities, kids, etc.). Even if it’s not the specific power that they got as cops that corrupted them, it is their belief in power more generally. (and as other said, the power they got as cops probably reinforced all of this, as a vicious circle).
I have to say: it’s true despite the fact that many police men are people with migration background.
That doesn’t stop them from being racist and right-winged though.
Which is really confusing to me.
To the surprise of no one.
I mean I’m surprised by the child porn part
I’m not.
How?
why? People in position of power such as clergy, teachers, politicians, celebrities and wealthy in general are always the ones getting caught… after decades of abuse many times.
Until we admit who are the key groups doing the abuse, nothing will change. If we can’t put clergy in prison for it, our society has not dealt with any of these issues imho. When you have clergy across countries doing it, it sound like a criminal organization.
Cops any many countries are also notorious for sexual assaults, which are heavily under reported.
Power corrupts people, even good ones. Especially people with traumas are draw to positions of power, to compansate for their lack of control in early life.
You see this everywhere, but some examples: Trump: abusive relationship with father Elon musk: Bullied and nearly punched to death in school
Alles nur Einzelfälle…
“The allegations shocked me. In criminal law, the presumption of innocence also applies here. Nevertheless, the allegations are so serious that after examining each individual case, I immediately banned the three officers from conducting official business,” Friederike Zurhausen, the police chief of Recklinghausen, said in a statement.
This police chief did more than most do.
I have to wonder if things like child porn among law enforcement is a sort of test to see if the others are as committed to disregarding the law. If you say nothing, you have viewed and are currently in possession of child pornography in your chats, which becomes leverage. If you report it, you are outed as a nark and will become a target.
No one is surprised. People don’t join the police to serve the people, they join it to bully them. We all know the gems attracted to positions like that.
Just another Tuesday for German cops.
It never surprises me when nazis and cp are used in the same sentence. If this was us conservative and republicans would be part of that sentence too.
You didn’t even have to say German
Cops are cops, it seems.
Weirdly enough, the police is well educated over here. So they can’t even claim ignorance.
Einige derjenigen, die Arbeitskräfte einsetzen, sind dieselben, die Kreuze verbrennen
Arbeitskräfte einsetzen?
Apparently the automatic translation tool they used interpreted “(those that) work forces” as “(those) workforces”
Yeah, I could totally tell it was the wrong translation but for some reason it struck me as really funny.
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Um… I’m german and I prefer Schnitzel and Apfelschorle anytime.
Where do you get your qualified knowledge from? lol
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Hanz… ? not even a german name
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lmao
