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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

My sister in law is a (not American) cop when she's not an EMT ... And she also moonlights as a volunteer fireman.

Where on the hero-bastard spectrum of cheap generalization you've devised does she sit?

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*ACAB, in their capacity as cops.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Yep, she's still unfortunately a bastard, sorry to say

[–] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nowhere, not American is a foreign concept to them.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if your pun was intentional, but yeah anything not American would be foreign to an American. That's how definitions work.

[–] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was intentional, honestly i'm proud of it x)

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

In that case we'll played, you pride is warranted.

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think non-militarized cops, so most non-American ones, are not that bad and are generally more decent people than militarized cops. It's amazing how much better policing can be when cops don't carry guns with them all the time

[–] robigan@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In Europe all cops carry guns and yet most cops I’ve gotten to talk to are great. I’m Italian and all Italian cops I’ve talked to have been great to me and often times I ask them for directions when I get lost in our metropolitan cities. I don’t think it has got to do with guns, but rather police training. Compared to the US most EU countries have a training period of 2yr rather than the 6mo I’ve heard from friends and family typical of the US, which ultimately allows cops to be better prepared and police trainers to weed out the unsuitable.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

TIL the UK and Norway are not in Europe lol

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They're part of the US now. We just got ≈ 20 more states.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The job of a cop is a bastard job. When she is working voluntarily as a cop, she is supporting a bastardized system and is therefore a bastard.