Well not when interacting with the public, but on police reports and sworn court testimony yeah they do have that obligation. Not that they consider themselves bound to any obligations of course.
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How often do they ever suffer a consequence for that?
And no, spending a week on paid leave isn’t a punishment. Neither is being told by the chief or a judge “don’t do that.”
They have no obligation to be honest. They’re at less risk of a negative consequence for lying on official documents than I am for forgetting to wish a customer a nice day.
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No surprises in life anymore.
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Do you know where some of the most dedicated people to countering police power and violence are? The ones working hardest to fight this shit and improve life for everybody?
St. Louis.
Not in any of your “safe to visit” states. There’s little difference between
and the comments constantly writing off the South in that you’re showing great willingness to shrug off the people fighting hardest, rather than lending them a hand.
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Don’t you mean, “Negligible”?
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I think we all know where along which path in general ‘red states’ reside. I don’t gamble. If I had to make a choice between having to spend time in a red state or a blue state, I’d always choose the latter. A week having to spend time on business in Utah was more than enough for me: one can be exposed only so far to disturbing conservative chatter and be somehow "innocently ignored " at a Provo restaurant. (Did I just sense “so what” in the background?) Anyway, my choice of where to place myself at any time has nothing to do with those who do fight back against injustices… wherever they may be.
No place is a monolith, just as no people are.
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Of course, and I realize that I’m very fortunate enough to be able to live exactly where I want to.
ATM, so am I; regarding the continental US, anyway.
I’m still not willing to just write off all the other people, including many poor and marginalized BIPOC, who are not quite so fortunate.
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Wow. Good to know all the hard work the fine people of GA did to help save the god damn country has been recognized. /s
We’re not all racist assholes, they are in fact, found in every state in the union. It’s a racist country. The whole god damn thing. It’s really long past time that people who don’t live here stop pretending that they have no work to do and blaming it all on those of us here trying to do the hard and often dangerous work of making political change.
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I guess you missed this part: Anyway, my choice of where to place myself at any time has nothing to do with those who do fight back against injustices… wherever they may be.
Maybe, but it’s fucking tedious to have to hear that we’re to blame for the state of the nation, when some of us are working very hard to try and fix shit. It’s demoralizing that some people will never treat me with respect because of where I live, especially when the problems under discussion are literally nation-wide and global in scope. 
I’m sure you did not intend to malign me and other BBSers who live down here, but given that this is a reoccurring theme of “the south should just leave the union, because they are the problem” is cropping up time and again, even after what happened this year with GA. So you’ll have to excuse me for feeling like I’m just being maligned cause I live here.
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Nothing to excuse; I understand.
To travel down that path a bit…there are huge issues with regard to the electronic voting process in most of Indiana, one of the more-red states, and something I was looking into had me checking the last election results on a county-by-county basis; it turns out more counties went blue in the 2020 election than ever before! Now, not enough to turn the state, unlike Georgia, but it’s about double the number of counties as the previous presidential election. The more you drill down, the more you can see that a spectrum of people live in every state, even the supposedly most extreme ones.
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Real talk.
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Srsly. I know Trump voters in the Bay Area. Dismissing this as a red state problem means that person is living in quite a bubble. And there’s a lot of privilege in that. (There’s also a lot of privilege involved in bubble hopping safely, which is something I take advantage of. Mostly to enjoy hobbies that attract all types, but it’s privilege.)
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There are more of them in CA than there are in TX, the last I heard.
Bigotry, apathy and willful ignorance are not problems rooted in locale but in flawed human socialization.
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The most demoralizing thing I learned in all my travels around the globe is that racism and classism are everywhere. Wherever one lives, there’s bound to be some bullshit.
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