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WCDT strips 3836-3840 (24 to 28 September 2018)
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--- Quote from: brasca on 27 Sep 2018, 11:49 ---
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 26 Sep 2018, 23:34 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 26 Sep 2018, 20:49 ---You can't fix a broken system with the tools of that system. A "good" cop is not going to fix the department from the inside. It's rotten to the core. The whole thing needs dismantled and rebuilt from scratch.
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But is the whole department of QC's Northampton really that broken?
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Exactly. If this was a city like Baltimore I’d understand completely, but is Northampton really that hopeless?
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I have seen it happen in Massachusetts TWICE, both in the past 12 years. It doesn't take much for a department to lose its way, especially in a city that prides itself more on its crime rate than trying to prevent crime in the first place. Social problems are ignored in favor of cracking down on lower-level crimes which only causes the bigger fish to move elsewhere while still keeping control over crime in the city.
efindumb:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 27 Sep 2018, 16:04 ---Roko is state police
If Roko wants to change society she should get in touch with Momo forthwith.
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She looks nothing like a state trooper, and we haven't seen her referred to as a state police trooper since then. I think he forgot that she was supposed to be a statie and kept her as a local cop. It makes more sense frankly, especially with how her buddy acts.
Case:
I don't quite get all attention put on individual cities' police departments - are state and city police completely different and independent organizational units?
Sorflakne:
Bomb rack...I'm going to have to remember that one.
Akima:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 27 Sep 2018, 12:02 ---That depends. How fond of you of capitalism as an insitution -- which neccesitates a focus on property rights, which is both the cause of most crime and leads to the strongest incentives for police corruption -- or of hierarchal power structures in general?
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If there is power in the structure, there is necessarily hierarchy. Between one giving orders, and another who must obey, there is no equality. And the briefest glance at the history of my homeland will demonstrate that you certainly don't need capitalism or property-rights to have violent and unaccountable police officers, or unjust courts.
--- Quote from: Case on 27 Sep 2018, 22:42 ---I don't quite get all attention put on individual cities' police departments - are state and city police completely different and independent organizational units?
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In the USA, I think, yes. In Australia, each state has a separate police-force, and then there is the national Australian Federal Police (AKA FedPol).
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