Police departments don’t hire “quality candidates“. They use IQ and personality tests to keep smart people excluded from the job, and for good reason: they want brutal authoritarians who will follow orders without question.
Police are not exploited workers. They’re armed agents of the state who have far more power than the average citizen. Most other developed nations have completely banned police unions to prevent them from amassing too much power. And that’s exactly what they do here.
You have confused the definition of “racism“ with “systemic racism“. A person, or a group, can be victims of racism without that racism having any realistic effect on them. Such is the case in South Africa. In cases, such as this, it is often a consequence of the actions of said group.
Which, of course, feeds into prejudice. And prejudice isn’t always unjustified. Again, as with the white people in South Africa, they certainly earned that prejudice through generations of colonization and apartheid.
It’s also the shortest and most easily recognizable, which is most likely why it caught on. The fact that it’s a Russian/Slavic derivative is probably just coincidence.
It has been my experience that this indicates that the itch is actually somewhere else. When this happens to me, I just start itching all over the place until I find it.
In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.
“Magic” is just a term ignorant people use to describe something they don’t understand and are too lazy and to figure out. Sometimes, just because they refuse to accept the facts.
Example: man-made climate change causes record wildfires in LA, and some claim “God did it!”
Another: cancer patient goes into remission after successful medical treatments. Some believe “God did it!”
I’d be very surprised if there were many cops here who would out themselves just to answer your question.
If I were to speculate, however, I imagine that they don’t really care that much. Cops have other things to worry about, too, including a wide range of other drugs they can plant on “troublesome” suspects.
It’s a term that indicates a leader, and its origins are thousands of years before imperial Russia.
It’s a derivative of the Latin “Caesar”, and many cultures have used the term (or its derivatives) to indicate a leader. Pre-Weimar Germany was led by the Kaiser, a German adaptation of the title.
Apple TV is currently the best streaming box available and has been for a while. It’s also cheaper than other high-end options while providing excellent functionality.
How did my cat end up in a textbook?
And bullshit he’s unhappy.