• TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    The only reason I’ve ever seen to call the cops was when someone sped through a light, gained air over a hedge, and smashed hood first into a building. And that was just because i wanted the ambulance to get to them fast.

    Noise? Never.
    Fights? Never.
    Strange noises. Never.
    Etc etc.
    All they do is cause more problems.

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      if there’s a breaking and entering you probably have more chance reasoning with the trespasser than having anything good come from pigs showing up.

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          Every interaction I’ve ever had with police I’ve been the one attempting to de escalate. Literally 100%. What’s frustrating is you speaking calmly and clearly pisses them off even more because they feel like you’re speaking down to them. They feel like they are supposed to be the reasonable ones and you’re making them look bad. Which of course you are, because they’re not.

    • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.deBanned from community
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      what? fuck off with this acab bullshit, it’s not all black and white, if there’s a knife fight in the neighbor’s house i’m calling the police, and i’m appalled that there’s someone who wouldnt.

      what do you suggest, getting stabbed yourself? ignoring it and letting an innocent human being die? how would you even sleep with that at night?

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        the problem is they never check who’s who before they start shooting. there are numerous instances where the person who calls the police for protection is the one who gets shot.

        so your choice is between a stabbing and a shooting. and a stabbing you might be able to run away from.

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          this sounds awfully similar to “man or bear”

          just because police are uncompetent pigs who sometimes shoot the caller, doesn’t mean that in the majority of the cases they’ll shoot them.

          And just because you have that 1% risk of getting wrongly shot (could be lower, pulled the number out of my ass) doesn’t mean you should try to face the very real and instant threat of another person trying to stab you.

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            and just as man vs bear, you have to be very privileged to not get why bear is the popular choice.

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                that doesn’t even make sense… having a functioning brain prevents you from understanding why the bear was a popular choice?

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                  no, it makes me understand the levels of delusion and irrealism (and the inability to do math) people have, be it with man or bear or ACAB