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1. Nicole (funbreaker@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 18:35:52 EDT Nicole

   I wonder if the current semi-acceptance of police brutality was lightly influenced by crime shows like Law and Order SVU treating Internal Affairs (who are supposed to punish officers for being toolbags and get them away from stuff they are personally affected by) like micromanaging nerds who are the real corrupt cops, don'cha know ???

   1. bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 19:17:09 EDT bailey//rockruff⚪

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      @funbreaker yeah, cop shows heavily normalise police violence, paint every civilian as a dangerous suspect/criminal or a victim, and portray any powers trying to prevent the cops from doing bad shit and compromising the freedoms of individuals as evil forces trying to stop the criminals from being caught.

      1. bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 19:20:36 EDT bailey//rockruff⚪

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         @funbreaker i mean, how many cop shows involve a plot where an officer becomes emotionally unstable and puts many lives in danger to get revenge on/catch a killer who taunted them?

         there's so much in cop shows that conditions the general public to accept and allow cops to act emotionally and irrationally because these shows insist it helps "catch the killer" or whatever

         1. bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 19:22:19 EDT bailey//rockruff⚪

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            @funbreaker not to mention the frequency at which these cops keep running into serial killers and managing to catch them within a couple weeks really hits home the idea that "hm, clearly america is very dangerous, and cops are the only reason society hasn't gone to hell" which is extremely bad and pervasive propaganda that simply isn't true in practise

   2. ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ (pnathan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 21:38:02 EDT ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️

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      @funbreaker I'm persuaded it's more than lightly influences...