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[-] FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago

The movie is Touch of Evil (1958). Watch it today, it's superb

[-] Twitches@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago
[-] aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Cattypat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 month ago

id argue a police officers job is hard in a police state as well,

i of course agree with acab but i also think its worth empathizing with officers whose mental health has been ruined by their training (see That Dang Dad on youtube who WAS a police officer and still experiences the pain of his "training"). theyre trained to be afraid and see danger everywhere, which is fucked, and as such being a police officer is not a job with 0 drawbacks. we all hate police, i sure as hell do, but no one should be trained to live in permanent fear, seeing murderers in everyone.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Forgive me if I don’t shed a tear for the consequences of their own choices.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

It's a two part problem. We have a broken system that draws in fundamentally broken people, and does its best to break any who showed up okay. 90% of people who choose to join a police force in modern America should absolutely not be there. But those 10% of officers who genuinely do join from an honest desire to protect their community are being legitimately traumatized by their training. We need change from within the system but "the system" in question has a stranglehold on its members.

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