The Struggles of Sympathy for Cops

When I'm talking to people who might have, you know, some indoctrinated or inculcated sympathy towards cops, one rhetorical strategy that I find particularly useful and brings people around. A lot of people hate to let go of this idea like, hey, somewhere in the world a good cop exists, right? The moment that that quote, unquote, good person puts on that badge and puts that gun on his hip and goes out he is serving a social role. And that social role is the violent arm of the state which we are against when we say, fuck the police. It gives them a little inkling of their initial argument to hold on to while really paradigm shifting the