coeliacmccarthy [he/him]

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  • I live on a rez with a large white population and therefore heavily overlapping political systems, so you get to observe both white and tribal cops in their operations and can compare + contrast.

    My verdict: still cops and therefore bad, but not as bad. Example: they do way more natural resource conservation and protection than white cops. Anecdotally they are more a part of their local community and feel more responsibility toward it, are more capable of conflict resolution, and don’t have the same degree of holy warrior mentality as modern US cops. Their badness and their copness are a product of the reservation still being under the hegemony of capital, therefore demanding that their primary duty be to protect property and uphold the social/class order.