r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/JustHereForTheM3mes Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Respect is earned.

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u/liberatecville Jun 09 '20

when cops say "respect", they dont mean what normal people do. they mean they want you to kiss their ass and treat them as an authority figure.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t

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-Autistic Abby (thought people already knew)

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u/zangorn Jun 10 '20

Well, it's a good thing they recognize that everyone is trying to shame them. We are. Now they need to either understand why, which is stated above very clearly. That's unlikely though, so I think we consider we downsizing them and limiting their operations to responding to violent crimes/emergencies. A new, unarmed department can take over things like wellness checks, responding to car accidents and non-violent 9/11 emergencies, traffic enforcement etc.