my cousin is a cop and I'm very embarrassed about it. shit happens I guess
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 12 May 2024 02:41 (two weeks ago) link
i'm more opposed to the oppressive institution of policing than every single individual copAgree but the way the oppressive institution exerts its power is through individuals so in real life it's pretty impossible to keep those separate.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 12 May 2024 02:54 (two weeks ago) link
The only way the institution really changes is if a wider range of people apply to become cops, and I guess you can take the pessimistic view that it doesn't matter, anyone who puts on the uniform becomes absorbed into the unchangeable institution, but I do not take the pessimistic view.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 12 May 2024 03:56 (two weeks ago) link
Or you can become an editor, cinematographer, casting director, prop maker… anything, really.
^^This. I just got back from a memorial for a mentor of mine who founded a film program at the CC I used to work at. It's highly likely that a substantial portion of any crew working productions in Houston in the past 20 years, from studio features and series down to commercials airing global to local, were trained in his academy.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 May 2024 04:13 (two weeks ago) link
Not to mention all the camera and sound people who work sporting events, big concerts, megachurches etc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 May 2024 04:21 (two weeks ago) link
pretty well documented that 'good' reform-minded cops (in the NYPD, at the very least) are subject to the whole suppressive person package, up to and including 'accidental' death
reforming a gang from the bottom up is practically impossible
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 May 2024 04:53 (two weeks ago) link
Xp akm did you read D Bond-Graham’s book about the Oakland PD? … I do not doubt there are worse police departments in the US, but ours (OPD) is historically awful and incompetent, which might make it worse than LAPD as a potential employee? Idk… Forensic accounting usually requires an accounting degree or at least a lot of coursework in accounting from when I looked into it … there were multiple levels of prerequisites before they’d let you take the forensic accounting class ime
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 May 2024 06:19 (two weeks ago) link
i think we need more english grads as cops and more cops as computer programmers and fewer philosophers as baristas
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 May 2024 08:59 (two weeks ago) link
A journeyman’s ticket in a trade and 10 years’ experience on the jobsite before you’re allowed to start studying philosophy.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 12 May 2024 13:29 (two weeks ago) link
And that’s another part of the whole cost of education issue! Degree inflation. Probably millennial and younger are most effected, but genx and even boomers have been too… older people who change careers or move to other states, in some cases. Like, getting needs based scholarships and grants for undergrad was possible (not saying everyone got all they needed) … tax credits are also fairly significant… but the increasing requirements of graduate degrees (Masters, MFA, MBA etc) for employment combined with next to no grant/scholarship assistance, only loans… I feel like a lot of recent labor organizing, specifically in the arts and academia, is spurred by all the debt the workers incurred to get these jobs that do little to repay the debt
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 May 2024 16:03 (two weeks ago) link
I used to work at a museum for $18/hr… but I had no student debt. Someone who has $100k of student debt and is working for those wages (increased a bit since i left)… fuck yea they’re going to unionize and demand better pay
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 May 2024 16:05 (two weeks ago) link
i think i am gonna keep talking about the police thing but i'm gonna do it over here:
Abolish the Police
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 12 May 2024 21:00 (two weeks ago) link