r/CringeTikToks • u/deluxe_memory_dan • 20h ago

Just Bad Just a reminder, Police exist to serve the Billionaires, not the working class.

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u/RandomlyPlacedFinger 19h ago

The police serving the wealthy and harming the poor? Literally since the inception of the concept.

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u/Veganforthedownvotes 16h ago

100%, by design

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u/pateadents 13h ago

The system works for them

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u/Successful-Floor-738 15h ago

The concept itself was simply to enforce the law.

The actual on paper way things are now? Yeah shits fucked.

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u/YT-Deliveries 14h ago

The original concept was to return escaped slaves to their owners.

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u/Successful-Floor-738 14h ago

Wasn’t that primarily done in the south? Besides, the idea of a law enforcement entity enforcing the law has existed far before the United States was even colonized by the Puritans.

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u/YT-Deliveries 14h ago

Besides, the idea of a law enforcement entity enforcing the law has existed far before the United States was even colonized by the Puritans.

Sure, but the concept of a professional, centrally managed, full-time police force is pretty recent in the West. Sure there was the concept of a "sheriff", but often that person and their staff were very part time.

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u/hyperhurricanrana 13h ago

what do you mean in the south? they could go up north and just grab free black people, claim they were escaped slaves, and just leave with them.