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ACAB holy fuck.
If my boss told me at my job, I had to attack genocide protesters or I would be fired, I think I would rip out his jugular with my teeth and then quit
To be fair, cops have no other marketable skills, so rage quitting has more serious consequences than for normal people with transferable skills.
So stop doing it then you fuckwits
If you're ashamed of the job you are doing, find a new job.
This isn't like working in fast food, where you can just find another job right away. You're talking about abandoning a career the officer has spent years building.
Principles aren't principles if you only follow them when they're easy.
Principles can be in conflict though. The promise to provide stability for your family, for example, is often more urgent than more lofty political principles. In this situation, looking actively for another job whilst continuing to perform the tasks you disagree with at a level of bare minimum compliance might be an ethically acceptable compromise.
You dont have a line you wouldnt cross at work? Arresting someone carries a risk of harm, would you harm someone else daily whilst looking for new work?
There are tons of lines I wouldn't cross at work, but those lines would be different in another job. If arresting people is generally part of your job description, then I would expect you to have different red lines.
Easy to say but my job is shit and what real choice do I have? Sure I can look for something else but there isn't much out there.
Does your job involve destroying other people lives as a jackboot for capital?
Are you a cop? If so then you don't need me to tell you about all of the private security gigs that are going because you 100% already knew about them.
Yeah cuffing pensioners is a real skill that must be honed with years of hard work & training
They can literally not do it...
Cops have an insane amount of power because they can just not do their job whenever they feel like it
I doubt it's that easy. There will be disciplinary systems. And if they quit, I'm sure the govt will find people with fewer morals to take their place.
How can they discipline you for not seeing something? Also, no one is saying to quit. They should keep working, but just become blind to these "criminals."
Sort of like a police strike for better conditions for the public.
“Just following orders” you say? You could choose not to do it. You could choose to not participate in injustice. What you are doing is bad and you should feel bad for doing it.
Then they should refuse to do it, and make the police force go through the trouble of firing them.
This. Right here. Don't make it easy on the brass by quitting
They should be more like the Italian dock workers.
quit your jobs then???
Resign, pigs.
When confronted by protestors, do a 180, grab a sign, and join them. You were a human once upon a time. If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.