All Cops Are Bastards

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Marxists stay predicting the inefficacy of bourgeois policing (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Considering the frequency of false convictions and the rate at which they are achieved by coercion I'd say it's even worse than that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Less actually. Engels described this in the "Conditions...", even in the conditions of purposeful and pretty obvious starvation only a minority of victims turned to crime. Especially that back then, even being unemployed or homeless or too poor to live was literally a crime, as the poor law stipulated, punished by the forced labour camp.

So really, this is the point of this survelliance system - not to prevent crime but to criminalise everyone. As old saying goes "there are no innocents, only people insufficiently interrogated".

EDIT: wrong person, i wanted to write this to @[email protected]