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Comment by gknoy | Hacker News Reader

   the police can not legally "kick the shit out of you"

I realize that we don't feel such behavior is legal, but recent history has shown that when police misbehave at this level (cf. Breonna Taylor), there are no meaningful consequences.

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So many engineers live and breathe P.O.S.I.W.I.D. (purpose of a system is what it does) in all technical areas and then are violently opposed to that kind of thinking when it comes to politics or sociology.

I'm honestly baffled by it. I get that people can be ignorant of how police act in the real world because they have no experience with it and watch cop shows on TV, but once you learn what the actual behaviour is ...

My God, I'd not heard that one before. Like I'm fully aware of the philosophy, but not of the acronym as a name for it. Thank you. Filing that for later use.

> Breonna Taylor

Given the discussion topic, maybe you should cite an incident that the RCMP was involved in, or at least one that occurred in Canada?

I could cite police violence in Hong Kong, but I think that would be off-topic too.

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