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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Interesting perspective. I know you’re paraphrasing what relatives said but I have a hard time believing that policing, as it currently stands, will ever be abolished and that former LEOs would face any kind of widespread prosecution in this country. Policing, violence, racism, punitive justice and prisons are so engrained in American culture and identity that I just don’t see that going away anytime soon despite seemingly loud calls for abolishing the police. Mostly because policing and prisons make a lotta money. This country puts profits before lives. It always has and for the foreseeable future, we will continue to do that. If policing were to ever substantially change, the entire American justice system needs be overhauled and I can’t see that happening anytime soon.
gpt
Cops in NYC are overwhelmingly NYPost Trumpers. They mostly stand around collecting OT that makes them better paid than most of the public that pays and not responding to crime. I could go on about the absolute failure to protect I've personally experienced at the hands of the local precinct.

They were also big on going unmasked throughout the height of the pandemic. To the point where FDNY was avoiding calling them for any kind of ambulance p/u for suspected Covid.