Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3831-3835 (17-21 September, 2018)
Case:
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--- Quote from: sitnspin on 16 Sep 2018, 21:51 ---Considering that the vast majority of people who are in jail are there for non-violent drug charges, yes, fuck those judgemental pricks.
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I'd agree if it wasn't for the fact that one of the primary tasks of police officers is to decide whether or not someone is breaking the law...
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I see your point, but ... let's just say that hereabouts, I'm not scared of talking to a police officer (Hell, I damn' near dated one), something that several of your compatriots on this forum have reported being, to the point they'd think twice about calling on one in an emergency - something that still floors me. Not that I'd put my hand in the fire for every German Cop, or that every German feels that way - I've known activists who felt rather apprehensive about them - but on average, there's a lot less horror stories about Krautian LEOs around. Never had a problem with Dutch or Belgian cops, either.
TL;DR - Yes, it is one of their primary tasks. As an American taxpayer, are you happy with the way the US police forces, as a collective, discharge their duties?
Zebediah:
Speaking as someone who lives in Northampton: the Northampton PD has a pretty good reputation. The Massachusetts state police, somewhat less so.
Local police vary from town to town. When I lived in Arlington MA a few years ago, the Arlington PD had a stellar reputation, while next door in Somerville the police were notoriously corrupt.
SordidEuphemism:
I've been re-watching Foster's Home lately, and I realized today that my mental voice for Dale is Wilt.
I could easily imagine Dale saying "On the list of things that are not OK, that was pretty not OK!"
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Sep 2018, 23:25 ---I've been thinking about this strip and I find myself wondering if Roko is having one of those moments that lots of people in public service-oriented jobs have: "Am I really doing any good here? Do I really have what it takes? Even if I do, is the system itself going to let me make a positive difference?" So, really, by saying that she's 'dumb and bad at her job', all May did is express a fear that Roko herself seems to be experiencing.
This is me but I'm wondering if May's own issues about her past is simply the introduction that Jeph wanted to introduce Roko's own crisis of self-confidence and maybe identity.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Sep 2018, 22:34 ---Roko is being more thoughtful than usual. What to make of it?
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I suspect that this has been something playing in her head for a while. It's just that she's had enough tea so that it's broken down her usual ability to repress her dissatisfaction with her life, personal and professional alike.
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Exactly. Roko never stops thinking, but now she's verbalizing it for anyone present to hear.
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 17 Sep 2018, 00:02 ---I beg to differ. Personally, I think you're reading too much into this.
The way I see it, Roko is thinking about her service, and how much she can actually do, and at that moment she felt sympathetic for May.
Depending on her findings Roko may either quit the service or develop a... zeal.
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What, that Roko the Cop can be a decent person and remain a state cop?
I don't see Jeph going with either of your proposed story lines. He's exploring the conflict android AIs experience between their mechanical bodies and their more and more obviously human minds. Second only to Bubbles, Roko's character is his principle vehicle for that exploration. (He may take Winslow there eventually, too, but that hasn't happened yet. He's still in the "Gee whiz this is cool!" stage with his new android body.)
Jeph doesn't invest much time in his antagonistic characters, and they're few and far between. The only ones I can think of that he's developed at all are Beatrice Chatham and Jesper Pate* (I don't even include Church because he was just Pate's tool). Further, as a literary device she's too useful for representing government authority in the strip. He's not going to change Roko into a full-time abusive asshole nor send her off to a convent. Where they bake bread.
* For relative new-comers, Pate and his goon Church are the Baddies from Jeph's finalized Alice Grove strip.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: SordidEuphemism on 17 Sep 2018, 09:47 ---I've been re-watching Foster's Home lately, and I realized today that my mental voice for Dale is Wilt.
I could easily imagine Dale saying "On the list of things that are not OK, that was pretty not OK!"
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Aaaaaaaaand I will never unhear that.
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