How is it worse when the the people that are enforcing laws and making laws are not the same? Or is this just some shitpost?
I interpreted this as "it's shitty to write terrible laws, but even shittier to just blithely enforce them and vaguely acklowledge that they are shitty while doing so".
After all making laws doesn't itself matter in the slightest, what matters is enforcement so enforcing terrible laws is the worse thing.
Concrete example: Houston food not bombs. You couldn't pay me an amount of money to harass people feeding the homeless.
Also, just following orders is not a defense.
The implication is that cops may acknowledge that a law is unjust, or flat out unconstitutional, but in the end they don't give a shit and make the invalid "I'm just following orders" excuse to gleefully ruin your life by putting you jail for it anyway.
I think it would make more sense if it said “I don’t understand the laws, I just enforce them”, which is a very real thing.
I think OP wants to live in the world of Judge Dredd.
They only enforce the laws they like, when they feel like enforcing them.
I wouldn't want them making the laws either.
You don't want to read about the police unions lobbying history, then...
Selectively enforce laws with sometimes a non appropriate amount of force, sometimes with extreme prejudice.
Would you rather them make them?
The phrase is a response to the question "why do you choose to do evil things?" And they think saying they only do it for money is somehow better than saying they agree with it. When it's actually worse
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Interesting shaped face.
Police already have a shit load to do they shouldn't be required to write laws.
That should be given to an entirely different group of people that either study law and are experts in the matter or are voted in to create new laws.
Also independence is great or you can have a police state
Seriously this is like post colonial Africa logic.
Ehhh technically everyone is making the laws via voting for their representatives. So you both made the laws, and the cop is enforcing them.
Depending on his department, more like th DA enforcing them since they won't bother with anything that's pointless usually.
Yup. That's why Roe v Wade was overturned despite the majority of people being against it.
And yet Republicans continue to vote in representatives who legislate against their own interests because of single issue voting.
They know what they're doing. They don't care about the hypocrisy.
You can't have 4 years of Trump and pretend white women and Latinos didn't vote for him in greater numbers round 2. They know what they're voting for.
Dispel the notion they don't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing lol.
Trust me, I didn't make the laws.
Not a voter eh? RIP.
eh, maybe if we started from scratch every year.
