• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Cops serve the ruling class. It’s why they’re trying so hard to find the CEO killer.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Why would I investigate my employer? A healthy chunk of that $15B in CEO salary works its way back into the hands of officers via lobbying for increased pay/benefits, kickbacks to police unions and sheriff’s society’s, and direct hiring for police “consultants” and overpaid rent-a-cops.

    If burglars want to enjoy these benefits, they need to get back to the old school way of doing business. Get. Mobbed. Up. You didn’t see Irish cops bothering the American wing of the IRA or Italian cops hassling the mafia. Burglars need to do the same thing as the rest of the working class and get organized. One stick is easily broken. A bundle is far sturdier.

  • MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know this is fiction

    because irl a cop would not reflect on his actions.

    He would just shoot & kill this man on the spot.

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    For the record, it’s specifically CEOs of S&P 500 companies that make an average of ~18 million/yr.

    https://aflcio.org/paywatch/highest-paid-ceos

    The Standard and Poor’s 500 is ~500 of the largest companies in the country that are publicly traded. It does not include the vast majority of CEO positions in the US, just the biggest.

  • Cypher@lemmy.world
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    Robbers are committing violent crime mostly against the working class.

    Cops should go after both robbers and robber barons.

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    Some folks will rob you with a six gun, and some will rob you with a fountain pen.

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    If robbers only earn $7500 a year why on earth do they do it? Why would anyone risk arrest, jail time, criminal record, maybe even being shot by armed security or police, for such a paltry amount of money?

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    Ah yes, let’s try and justify one crime by comparing it to another one, conveniently ignoring the fact that neither are victimless. And I don’t even mean the material cost, I mean the fact that the trauma of being robbed can affect a person for life. Here’s a thought, how about trying to make everything black and white we can decide that multiple things can be bad, even in different amounts?