not all police officers have it in for the communities that they've sworn to protect. Many care as deeply for their fellow citizens as they do about coming home to their families at night. It could be difficult to attract or keep good cops to a city where they might have to think twice before using necessary force in the line of their duties, for fear of financial repercussions.
#notallcops aside, this is a misunderstanding of how police abuse works. It’s not solved by firing “bad cops” and replacing them with “good cops”. Abuse is done by individuals, yes, but it’s empowered, sheltered, and incentivized by the police institution - it could not exist without systemic support. This means that all cops, even the ones who “care deeply for their fellow citizens”, are complicit in the abuse.
Rather than trying to lionize “good cops” so that they can somehow fix policing by being good guys, we should be asserting power over the police institution in general. If cops are unwilling to allow their power to be eroded by the communities they claim to protect, then they should never have had that power in the first place.
