What is your opinion on people saying “back the blue”?

[Anonymous]

[NamerOfStars]

The great danger doesn't come from any particular group or ideology; it comes from too much power being concentrated in too few hands. Whose hands they are? Doesn't really matter. The kind of power it is? Doesn't really matter. The best measure to defend against it is to have separate, clearly delineated holders of power. Split your government into separate branches, have many businesses competing for people's custom, and above all, do your best to keep community management in the community.

If you're concerned about police militarization- good, you should be. I am, too. But you'd be a LOT less happy with the military doing their job. And as a former Chicagoan, I can tell you that an unjustified death from police brutality doesn't hurt any more than an unjustified death from stray bullets in a gang war.

Police aren't your enemies; it's important that both you AND they realize this. They don't like feeling threatened or opposed any more than you would, and cries to put them out on the street aren't going to make them LESS likely be overaggressive. I'm ethnically Irish, and my ancestors (on one side of the family, anyway) came to this country at a time when Irish people had pretty much the same reputation that black people do now. That changed, in no small part due to their involvement in police forces, often being the only people willing to go into dark and dangerous slums where even the ARMY feared to set foot.

Letting the police know you DON'T think they're monsters is a big part of keeping them from walking off the job and turning the world over to those who ARE.

[Soteris]

Idiots.

Pure and simple. Back the blue is a reactionary group, even if we ignore how it was started to sucker these idiots into working against themselves it is still a stupid reactionary group. More specifically, its a reaction against attempts to resolve problems with the police meaning it is actively supporting keeping the police dysfunctional, unable to do their job and destructive to the community.

Truly only an idiot supports such a group.

[SpringValley]

I agree 100%.
Idiots like AOC who want to defund the police, have tax payer funded private military to protect them.

[TadCurious]

I agree with them. I support all of our first responders including law enforcement officers.

[SmokinAces2000]

Back the blue is just code for keeping the police force corrupt and unjust

[Anonymous]

Never heard that saying

[SpringValley]

Support the police.

[Opinion Owner]

@SpringValley oh ok, I’ve only heard Blue Lives Matter

[SpringValley]

Same here. This is the first time I've heard of it.