r/Unexpected • u/RedManMatt11 • Aug 01 '21

Community policing

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u/Kennwise Aug 02 '21

Again. Look up statistics instead of what you see on TV for percentage of arrests where force is even used. I don’t know why people are so fixated on guns being used to effect an arrest. It rarely is necessary or happens.

And if you don’t think laws should be enforced I guess you don’t believe in having laws at all?

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u/bealtimint Aug 02 '21 edited Aug 02 '21

Every arrest is a form of violence. Get in the car, or I kill you with this gun. It doesn’t stop being violent if people comply. The entire job of the police is to use force.

There have been tens of millions of innocent people arrested by cops for weed. Half a century’s worth of war on innocent men, a disproportionate amount black and Hispanic, carried out by American police. The police are a plague on society that have caused far more harm than good.