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NYCButterfinger

(755 posts) Wed Sep 23, 2020, 11:24 PM Sep 2020

Do you think police officers' image will be tarnished if they keep voting Republican [View all]

or aligning with far right sheriffs, PBAs, etc.?

Police should be neutral and should not in politics, but in my area, the NYPD and suburban police departments are aligning themselves with the NYGOP and NJGOP.

I'm sure the same thing is happening in your area

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Do you think police officers' image will be tarnished if they keep voting Republican [View all] NYCButterfinger Sep 2020 OP

If killing unarmed women in their beds Codeine Sep 2020 #1

You still need a police force, but most police officers are hardcore Republican NYCButterfinger Sep 2020 #5

I think that IS their "image"... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #2

What do you mean "will be"?!?!?!?!? Police image currently exists as right wing authoritarian RockRaven Sep 2020 #3

One side has protestors and some leaders who want to abolish and or defund them. CentralMass Sep 2020 #4

yeah qazplm135 Sep 2020 #6

Black and Latino cops probably vote Democratic, some of them NYCButterfinger Sep 2020 #7

Their mind set hasn't changed. They are still the same arrogant cops that I seen as demosincebirth Sep 2020 #8