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peteretep on July 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Treating violence as a public health problem has p...

I get the idea that people who join the police in the US do it for the authority, where police in the UK are well aware that 95% of the authority they have is "by consent" of those they have authority over.

dickbasedregex on Aug 3, 2018 [–]

As an American that's always been my feeling. Bullies and petty people seem to be drawn to police work in the US for that "authority."

An idiot with authority is a bad time for everyone.

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