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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
I get what you're saying. Couple of things to clarify..

1. They said "in the future", but from what I understood at the time, this wasn't the near future. It was more of a as society progresses, becomes more enlightened kind of thing.


2. They also weren't saying that former cops would be prosecuted. They were saying that the ones who actively engaged in "cop culture" at the time would be held accountable as the culture was overhauled. I can see how that would be misconstrued with the example given, but yeah.. this was a long convo and I was trying to shorten it to make it more concise and easier to write out lol

Hope that makes more sense.