It’s not hard to make it through the application process as a compassionate, clever person.
It’s just hard to stay employed while butting heads with supervisors that aren’t, and the public sends you thoughts and prayers from the sidelines. Sure, they’ll riot when evil cops are caught doing evil stuff, but they do absolutely nothing to notice or stop good cops from getting forced out.
Source: My time in law enforcement and my interactions with the public on Reddit where I told my story.
Those people are actively filtered out by police.
It’s not hard to make it through the application process as a compassionate, clever person.
It’s just hard to stay employed while butting heads with supervisors that aren’t, and the public sends you thoughts and prayers from the sidelines. Sure, they’ll riot when evil cops are caught doing evil stuff, but they do absolutely nothing to notice or stop good cops from getting forced out.
Source: My time in law enforcement and my interactions with the public on Reddit where I told my story.
Ah, so because there’s a fire we need to pour gasoline on it?
That’s quite what our justice system does: treat violence with even more violence.
So we may as well make it worse.
No abolitionist wants to replace the justice system with no system of accountability and societal healing. 🙄
What would you do to murderers in this system of yours?
After a quick google, I found an abolitionist faq. It’s no “world of mine”. Abolitionism has quite the history, way before I got into it.
Edit: Here’s another text to answer your question