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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Does anyone actually consider a prosecutor a cop?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I call myself Robocop. Does that make me a police officer, too?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"You need to know the difference between cop and prosecutor, stupid progressives."

She literally calls herself a cop personally and branding

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’m progressive, so your weird quote is even weirder.

I never think lawyer when I hear ACAB. I do think “fuck lawyers” all the time, but rarely towards public servants (I mostly dislike corporate and greedy defense attorneys)

Are ya’ll just lumping them together out of convenience of disliking both, or do ya’ll really not understand the difference between a lawyer and a cop?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

If she calls herself a cop, despite not being a cop, I can call her a cop.

Is she one? No. But it's weird that when she uses it in her branding, and people use that branding at critcism, we're the naive idealists for saying "Cops aren't going to solve fascism."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Who has she arrested/beaten/killed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't get the down votes. The article say it's a label. She didn't hold a position of a cop. I feel it's a valid question. Is a DA (District Attorney) a cop?

Edit words

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Absolutely not. They are a legal officer, which is very different from law enforcement. They work at separate parts of the legal process with very different goals.

DA’s get stuck trying to clean up the trampling of rights by actual cops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/comment/13282455

I guess a da according to Wikipedia is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement representative. But that is only for court, the da doesn't arrest people or do traffic stops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. A lot of people just love circlejerking that literally everyone in the justice system is a cop

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

ROBO WANT AN OREO.

[–] wildbus8979 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, legal professionals are very different than law enforcement

[–] marine_mustang 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“Where’d you learn that, drug school?”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

chief law enforcement officer representing ... an area

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_attorney

Well there you go...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I definitely wouldn't. A cop is a cop and attorney is an attorney.

[–] wildbus8979 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Who the fuck do you think prosecutes women who get abortions?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Does prosecuting someone make them a cop?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I might consider them worse actually

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Easily more influential. Broader scope, that's for sure, and in a strong position to either amplify or counteract the typical "cop bullshit", depending on their choices.

ETA: don't think many of them work very hard at the "counteracting" side. To put it mildly.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago

I guess you consider court clerks cops, too. And the reception workers. And the maintenance workers, right?

Lawyers are not cops. Lawyers have their own issues, but different from cops and not at all the same thing lmao

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, police requires minimal education and training. Prosecutor is a lawyer, doesn't carry a gun or shoot innocent people.

[–] wildbus8979 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They only lie, hide evidence, and cover for the cops to put people in jail. But yeah you're right, the education makes all the difference! (Let's forget that cops in other countries get a metric fuckton more education and they aren't all that different). Both serve mostly to protect the state and ruling class's interests.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Shhh, people don't like it when you point out that DAs and prosecutors enforce the state's monopoly on violence. That's far too much thinking.

[–] wildbus8979 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But they're educated though 💅

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Then I guess you're happy with the results. Congratulations, the prosecutor lost.

[–] wildbus8979 2 points 3 weeks ago

No, I don't prefer chlamydia to gonorrhea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They are law enforcement officers yes.

[–] piccolo 1 points 3 weeks ago

They arent an officer though. They are basically an attorney that represents the government in a criminal case. They are the ones that decide rather or not to persue criminal charges to present to the court.