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Are you fucking comparing the goddamned KKK with the Black Panthers?
No. Abso-fucking-lutely NO! Do better.
They aren't, they are pointing out self-organizing groups like this can be made into something good as well as something bad. That's kind of the whole point of government and regulations, to try to prevent that. Obviously that has failed in most cases, but it doesn't mean the goal itself is pointless.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/vice-president-bikers-against-child-abuse-arrested-b2730815.html
Here's a more recent example. These groups can often end up exploiting the things they claim to protect. That's just humans being human.
gasp you mean cops can be cops without being cops!!!???
Please don't assign the kindest possible interpretation to his words. It's pretty obvious what he meant to do.
You're losing a discussion to someone named Snot Flickerman. L
He got ratiod by redditors but he's not wrong
Community organization is objectively better than our current approach to police which is to act as an occupying military force.
Police is community (government) organized.
The only difference is size.
Yes, it's better for police to actually be accountable to their neighbors than a top down fedual structure of law enforcement.
Works both ways unfortunately.
Improve the world, start with yourself. You muppet.
Make me.
KKK will
Lol...
You fookin wat?
Like they say, you can’t fix stupid.