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silence & police brutality
2015-05-06 21:53:45.896517+02 by
Dan Lyke
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Well worth reading carefully: Why Cops Like Me Stay Quiet About Police Brutality
I later realized that that girl’s tax dollars paid for me to endure her story, not share it. That’s what a cop’s job is: to swallow the sorrows of humanity — from the banal to the truly tragic — and to return to work the next day and do it all over again. You have to dehumanize people. Your brain does it automatically, to protect yourself. ...
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