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Does anyone actually consider a prosecutor a cop?
She literally calls herself the "Top Cop"...
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4813155/user-clip-kamala-top-cop
I call myself Robocop. Does that make me a police officer, too?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kamala-harris-has-finally-embraced-being-a-cop.html
"You need to know the difference between cop and prosecutor, stupid progressives."
She literally calls herself a cop personally and branding
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?
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."
A label.
Who has she arrested/beaten/killed?
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?
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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.
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.
Exactly. A lot of people just love circlejerking that literally everyone in the justice system is a cop
ROBO WANT AN OREO.
Do you not??
No, legal professionals are very different than law enforcement
“Where’d you learn that, drug school?”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_attorney
Well there you go...
I definitely wouldn't. A cop is a cop and attorney is an attorney.
Who the fuck do you think prosecutes women who get abortions?
Does prosecuting someone make them a cop?
No, police requires minimal education and training. Prosecutor is a lawyer, doesn't carry a gun or shoot innocent people.
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.
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.
But they're educated though 💅
I might consider them worse actually
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.
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
They are law enforcement officers yes.
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.