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  • Devi@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    4 months ago

    Not really talking about brutality, although that varies from place to place, but more the occupying garrison for the ruling class comments. Police structure vary from country to country.

    Also Scotland yard is a building, it doesn’t do anything.


  • Devi@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    4 months ago

    These days, we know the police are not here to protect the public, rather to serve as an occupying garrison for the ownership class, and while this was always the case, the DEA and war on drugs and the 1033 program have made this role even more clear.

    American police. Police in different countries are structured in very different ways.



  • This article seems to be trying to make the use of drones seem ominous but that’s really simplistic. A drone is a tool. They talk about flying drones over large gatherings but before drones they’d just have a dude with a camera go up a tall building.

    When there’s large gatherings it can be helpful to spot crowd surges or crushes to be able to see things.

    Of course these things are open to abuse, but how many cases of abuse have we seen with basic police on foot?

    It’s not the technology we should be worrying about but the officers who are abusive.