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Are they members of the working class, or not?

― dave q, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Be pedantic re your own defns

― dave q, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They work. They don't make much money. So yes.

― bnw, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They are employed by the borgeuois to control the proletriat , so no.

― anthony, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They make more bloody money than me! I am not working class.

― Emma, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They're members of the farming class here in Dublin. All the country cops get moved up here. They use Kerry rhyming slang.

― Ronan, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think ordinary policemen would be classed as a C2 - everyone of officer rank or above would be a C1 or B, and the bigwigs would be A. So no, broadly speaking.

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what anthony said. "armed bodies of men used for the repression of one class by another, etc." = state. Cops = state.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CID = predominantly middle-class.

― Trevor, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd bet you all would be begging for the return of that repression if all the coppers went on summer vacation for a couple of months like you fookin students.

― fritz, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

next time you get robbed try calling an alternative comedian. it just goes to show if you don't want to be beaten up you shouldn't be poor. i am not making any sense.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apparently New York City cops ain't too smart. Whether or not there is a sociological basis for this is not conclusive. There's only so many inferences one can draw in the space of three minutes.

― Trevor, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They come out of the working class. They have relatives who are working class. But, IME, the working class can't stand them.

― Kerry, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hence the firefighters fighting with the cops in NYC. Go firemen!!

― Kerry, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IME, everybody except cops feels the same about cops - essentially: it's a dirty job but somebody has to do it, most people who would WANT to do it are a little cracked, some cops are heroes & some cops are gangsters.

― fritz, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are they members of the working class, or not? >BR>Who cares?

― helen fordsdale, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They can sign passport photos. Hence they cannot be plebs.

― ogden, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BMW SeZ:

They don't make much money

***spits beer all over komputer*** (bzzzzt) What!?!? Thiz = crazy talk.

― Norman Phay, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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