One of my friends from high school has considered becoming a cop because criminology is easy. He was always a little chuddy but more because he wasn't that bright and came from a poor background. He was usually well intentioned.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    My grandpa on my mom's side was a 'prison guard' but for literally the lowest security rural 'prison' ever. It was basically a work around to government fund shelter for the few homeless people in the super rural area he was in. There was only a few and they'd do farm work and bum around for summer and be shit out of luck come winter so they'd bust a window or whatever and hunker it out in the jail. It was basically kept open cause it was easier than finding less than ten homeless people over a wide rural area to get them into one central shelter. Shit has changed hard and it's been closed for a while and now the homeless out there just die in the winter. It was a crappy awful workaround for shitty funding and infrastructure that forced the poor to do a small prison stay to not freeze and capitalism is bad. Trains are good.