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no_hypocrisy

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2. Police "authority" and power has been an issue for decades.

Reply to NCcoast (Original post)

Tue Jun 9, 2015, 11:02 AM

Jun 2015

Tagging adolescents as "juvenile delinquents" in the Fifties gave them justification for arrests, harassment, etc.

Tagging adolescents as "punks" and "hippies" and "Yippies" in the Sixties gave them continued permission to declare they were protecting the peace and stopping riots.

If you really want to go back, police were unofficial employees of corporate fiefdoms and attacked strikers.

And to make things more ironic, if you call the police for assistance when you are endangered, there is no legal duty for them to respond.

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The problem with the police - it's not just about race [View all] NCcoast Jun 2015 OP

I know that tune HassleCat Jun 2015 #1

Police "authority" and power has been an issue for decades. no_hypocrisy Jun 2015 #2

If they aren't on the books already... cherokeeprogressive Jun 2015 #4

This experiment was famously flawed: The experimentator influenced the test-subjects. DetlefK Jun 2015 #3

not all MisterP Jun 2015 #5

It is largely about race, but far from exclusively. hifiguy Jun 2015 #6