Resignation
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Why do I have a feeling this is a regular Monday thing for O'Malley?
O'Malley probably loves lasagna. He can't eat it, but probably loves it.
"going Commie" Yep, that's what I hear, too. I love this episode. I know too many people who defend bad cops, including one or two cops.
I agree strongly that bad cops are horrible, and the way cops "take care of their own" like the pedophile priests is also horrible, but to say "the system has problems therefore the system IS the problem" seems grotesquely naive, much like naivete of your pink haired college freshmen who say cops are evil, all the while publicly supporting the authoritarian system that is communism.
Even if you're doing the "right thing," if you're in a job (or anything, honestly) that you no longer think is a good one, you need to find another place to be.
The bottom line? Roko wants to be a good guy and thought that being a cop was the way to become a good guy. It turns out that being a good guy is a lot harder than pinning on a badge and taking an oath. The question is whether she'll run away or run forwards and what form this choice will take.
Just my humble opinion, but Roko leaving is more (and most importantly!) about the price she is paying within herself, and where she's headed. Growing up, my dad was in law enforcement, first as a deputy sheriff, then as an investigator for the prosecutor's office. I'm biased, but he was one of the "good ones"--even some of the baddest baddies can still be friendly with him, because he was fair and reliable to everyone. Even so, the personal price he paid (things he witnessed, things he had to deal with) was and still is high. I also have relatives who worked as prison guards--with a wholly different cost on your mindset. If you don't believe in your job, or don't like what it's going to make you in 10-20 years, it's just as valid to quit as disagreeing with something larger like being for or against "the system." I've made that choice in all directions at one time or another (stay to make a difference, leave because the cost is too high, leave because of some grand principle). It's never easy. We all read these stories through our own experience, so this is just how it resonates with me.
I'm glad she left. It's obviously been weighing on her soul for a while, impulsive though the decision was. Or seemed to be. Could be her talk with May simply unlocked something that's been there a long time. The desire to quit may have been percolating underneath.
This is the first time in a while that I haven’t thought “but what about Faye and Bubbles??!!”
All that said, Roku can quit if she doesn't like the work. The guys who work at sewage treatment plants are even more important than cops, and no one is obliged to do that work either.
O'Malley has a point. You quitting makes the problem worse as the % of 'bad' cops goes up! The best chance you have of making things better is staying in there where you have the most influence, being a shining example and helping root out the less than shining examples...
Of course! Also, why not promote a slightly less painful lynching from within the KKK? Why not say one nice word to a child you had detained today as an ICE agent? Why not support local soup dispenser using your profits from the Hutt cartels? History proves that "working from within" almost never works. Real change comes from a combination of different factors, and external pressure on the system (in this case from the FBI, press, Congress, ACLU, etc.) is much more effective than "good cops trying to be not a total failure of a person".
I wonder if there are any boxes QC won't check?
this is a shitty thing to say
rebellion against the police system...i didn't think it was possible to like QC even more than i already did.
I never thought that I would be typing this statement but: O'Malley is right. By quitting, Roko is not only giving in to the counsel of despair but she's also stating, clearly, that she consents to the police force being dominated by the bad cops because she refuses to do anything to counter-balance them.
Exactly. She may feel she's not doing any good where she's at, but if the system is indeed a problem, then she certainly can't do any good by leaving.
"Also, we switched to the software version of decaff." "NOOOOOO"
True in the wider sense. How long do all of us try to make this system, i.e. Western Civilization, work the way it is supposed to befor giving up and starting again?
It's great comic, but that last line just kills! It works so well!
Maybe Agent Turning has an opening over with the Feds?
Fuck th' po-leese and the immediate assumption that anything not-cop is Commie, like that's a bad thing. Fuck the po-leese.
Clearly she needs to start a band called "The Rokoup".
"Woke-o" is one of QC's best/worst puns ever!
Anyway, Roko's career is now toast.
No. Please, no. What if she decides her mission in life is to "Make bread fun!"
Oh, yeah, I see where this is going. First it's about being "the man", then choosing to try to do more from the outside. Next, it will be about leaving the matriarchy to have more power, by becoming "a man". And maybe THEN Roko and May will hook up? Puh-LEEZ?
I think BobC has gone rouge. Not, not 'rogue.'
"In every moment there's the possibility of a better future, but you people won't believe it. And because you won't believe it you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality. So, you dwell on this terrible future. You resign yourselves to it for one reason, because *that* future does not ask anything of you today."
Please may I have a source for that quote?!
Who else immediately saved the last panel to use as a reaction?
With the copyright attribution and link to the website, of course.
Y'know what, it makes sense.
One place she *isn't* going to work - Union Robotics. But why not take up baking?
That would honestly be an interesting storyline. It would bring the three of them full circle somehow. I don't know what sort of skill set she has, though, or what interests she has (outside of baked goods) so it's hard to say where her road will lead.
Yay!
Hmmm, I agree with moustache cop (well, except about the her being a commie part. haha). I feel Roko and all the others who feel like her would be better able to make a change in the force from the inside. Plus, all the good officers leaving because of bad ones and them staying doesn't sound great at all (I'm suddenly feeling a sense of deja vu, as if someone in a previous patreon strip already said that. xD).
Whether one feels they can do better or the outside of some system comes down to the individual, each require different personalities. Also fighting a broken system can be exausting either way, there's no shame in taking a step back to recover.
Welp, I was wrong....
What sucks going to be headed into a Monday lol
Mondays are like that
Can't wait to see what she will chose to do instead!
A baker?