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minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoLaw enforcement won’t do the bare minimum of at least trying to not look exactly the same as an organized criminal gang.
minus-squareflandish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoexactly. ice wants to dress like cartel members in plain clothes, too. I mean after all: Cops dressed like cops seem these days to actually be criminals cosplaying anyway…
minus-squaredarctones@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoThat’s the clockwork orange of it all. If they normalize plain clothes agents without identification performing violence, then we will allow plain clothes criminals without identification performing violence.
Law enforcement won’t do the bare minimum of at least trying to not look exactly the same as an organized criminal gang.
exactly. ice wants to dress like cartel members in plain clothes, too.
I mean after all: Cops dressed like cops seem these days to actually be criminals cosplaying anyway…
That’s the clockwork orange of it all.
If they normalize plain clothes agents without identification performing violence, then we will allow plain clothes criminals without identification performing violence.