The starting salary for a police officer is around £30k, going up to £48k. Many of these people are just trying to do a job as best they can to get by, they are following orders. We can only hope most of these people will do the right thing if things become extreme.
We shouldn’t condone attacking people for doing their job, that is what leads to good causes being flagged as terrorism.
“Just following orders” hasn’t been a valid defense since Nuremberg. If “following orders” was a valid defense, there would be a lot of camp guards who wouldn’t have been brought to justice after the war. All humans have agency to either victimize innocents or not. Police officers can choose to not be pigs the same way soldiers can choose to not be murderous Nazis.
The starting salary for a police officer is around £30k, going up to £48k. Many of these people are just trying to do a job as best they can to get by, they are following orders. We can only hope most of these people will do the right thing if things become extreme.
We shouldn’t condone attacking people for doing their job, that is what leads to good causes being flagged as terrorism.
“Just following orders” hasn’t been a valid defense since Nuremberg. If “following orders” was a valid defense, there would be a lot of camp guards who wouldn’t have been brought to justice after the war. All humans have agency to either victimize innocents or not. Police officers can choose to not be pigs the same way soldiers can choose to not be murderous Nazis.