ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIs cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world?message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up10
arrow-up10message-squareIs cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world?ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI don’t think their primary purpose is to uphold the interests of capital. It’s more accurate to say they enforce laws supporting the interests of the populace, which align with the interests of capital.
minus-squareERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI think its: Uphold Status Quo Cops in the days of the USSR and Mao-Era PRC were not really protecting “capital”, but protecting its Vanguardist Dictators.
I don’t think their primary purpose is to uphold the interests of capital.
It’s more accurate to say they enforce laws supporting the interests of the populace, which align with the interests of capital.
I think its: Uphold Status Quo
Cops in the days of the USSR and Mao-Era PRC were not really protecting “capital”, but protecting its Vanguardist Dictators.