HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: Comrades, if you’re going to assert an empirically testable claim—like “there ...

Comrades, if you’re going to assert an empirically testable claim—like “there was a time when policing wasn’t abusive but the police have since become corrupted by bad apples”—then you should be able to empirically verify that claim.

When was this mythical time when cops were good and performed their socially necessary role of protecting the public from crime? When was this mythical time before police were abusive of the public? I need a date, folks.