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Growing up, how did your parent(s) teach you to think about the police? (POC stands for people of color to be clear)
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Trust/respect them (parents r POC)
Distrust/fear them (parents r POC)
Trust/repect them (parents r white)
Distrust/fear them (parents r white
Were neutral/didn’t mention them
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Anonymous 9h

School taught me to trust them, but our experiences with them solidified that you often can’t. -white family

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Anonymous 8h

My dad is brown af and my mom is white but they both smoked weed when it was still illegal and both had a criminal history so we were def an anti cop household

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Anonymous 7h

Distrust/fear of cops white household, my mama grew up super poor so maybe that’s related?

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Anonymous 5h

White household, taught don’t respect but still be cautious of.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 7h

Definitely a “be super respectful, don’t give them a reason to go after you, don’t be alone with them if possible, never give them permission to search anything, don’t speak to them without a lawyer present” household lol that shit was hammered into my head.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6h

This will always be such a crazy mindset to me. What was the general opinion towards laws in general? Like was it just “we’re breaking the law, which is bad, but it is what it is.” Or more like the laws are all entirely bullshit and cops are enforcing stuff that has no place being enforced

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 54m

Well tbf they werent doing like active crime atp it was just the weed and history. It was more of a dont be like me but dont be a snitch either 💀😭 like if the cops ever try to talk to you dont answer them just ask for a lawyer, piggy want a donut type shit

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 42m

And like, how far did that go? Like obviously don’t snitch on dealers or whatever, but if a cop came to see if yall had seen someone accused of rape out in public, would you say anything atp?

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