You didn’t answer the question I notice. Traffic enforcement, often called traffic cops, are absolutely cops.
You’ve talked here about how police are the ones investigating workplace safety issues.
Well, it sounded like I was, but they aren’t. It’s my wish for a serious enforcement agency to review safety instead of a joke of an organization.
You could do things like funding/empowering the fire department to investigate all arson cases, not just provide some investigative services to the police.
Investigating arson is the job of the fire department. The fire warden is a fire cop.
The entire issue with policing is that it’s one homogenous, corrupt organisation. Breaking it down, separating out its powers into other services or bodies, limits the possibility of corruption. Perhaps you’ve heard the term “we investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong”? If whatever direct crime response organisation you had, wasn’t in charge of investigation, that would be much harder
Yes. Do you think police are only called police if they perform enforcement and investigation as one entity?
If they can pull you over, they’re a cop. If they can arrest you, they’re a cop. Taking a square and calling it a circle so you can sit there and say acab while advocating for cops still existing is what’s questionable to me.
I tried to answer it with examples of what I think are, and are not, police. I’m interested in hearing what your alternatives are. I did find an article I read a while back that helped shape my opinions here, that I posted if you’d like to go have a read and continue this discussion there: https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31917406
You didn’t answer the question I notice. Traffic enforcement, often called traffic cops, are absolutely cops.
Well, it sounded like I was, but they aren’t. It’s my wish for a serious enforcement agency to review safety instead of a joke of an organization.
Investigating arson is the job of the fire department. The fire warden is a fire cop.
Yes. Do you think police are only called police if they perform enforcement and investigation as one entity?
If they can pull you over, they’re a cop. If they can arrest you, they’re a cop. Taking a square and calling it a circle so you can sit there and say acab while advocating for cops still existing is what’s questionable to me.
I tried to answer it with examples of what I think are, and are not, police. I’m interested in hearing what your alternatives are. I did find an article I read a while back that helped shape my opinions here, that I posted if you’d like to go have a read and continue this discussion there: https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31917406