The Thin, Blue Line
You Need Us
CW/TW: mentions of abuse of authority, rape, murder, police violence, institutionalization, and domestic violence
“We’re the police. We are important.
We provide security for the power structure. We do this because we get a tiny crumb of that power to abuse, which might benefit you if you or someone you love gets raped or murdered, but it probably won’t because we have no legal duty to protect you, only arrest and prosecute the offenders. Which we probably won’t because only 2% of rapists get sent to prison. That’s if they even get that far into the system. If you want to be safer, give up your guns.
We also protect you from undesirable minorities because they’re your enemies, and if you disagree with us doing that job, then you’re our enemy, too. While we’re at it, we deserve more military-grade equipment because there’s a war going on out there. We need to put Black people back into bondage. That’s if we don’t murder them first, but they’re more valuable to us in the prison-industrial complex, so we only do it as a last resort.
Or if we get scared. Because heroes get scared, too. A hero doesn’t have to accept having their authority questioned, especially in matters of blue life and death. #bluelivesmatter
And of course, we’re too big to fail, so we have the right to keep all of this secret under a code of silence because national security. Our wives are so strong for keeping our abuse under wraps because our job is stressful and the best self-care for the exhaustion from heavy-handed authority and violence is, of course, more authority and violence.”
puts away truth stone
