Is the regular company worker tasked with protecting the public from bad guys but sees the bad guys around them & staying mum or even doing more, covering for the bad guys around them, according to their code?
The “True Scotsman” critique of my nonsensical post was way more on the mark than that & I knew it.
I’m just sick of people coming into discussions about bad cops by piping up with “most cops be good cops tho!” That’s not the discussion & that interjection serves the attitude that these people should be dealt with differently, that their crimes are less b/c of the role they abuse
“most cops are good cops” is bullshit in many ways & the height of its bullshit is when bad cops are being held to account.
A cop watching another cop doing something abusive is just as culpable. I never said that wasn’t the case.
A cop in another town who does a good job shouldn’t be lumped into the “all cops are abusive pigs” category which seems to be the prevalent attitude by some here.
I’m just sick of people coming into discussions with stereotypical statements about people who don’t deserve it.
In general terms the people here criticize the individuals, -and-, the system. “All cops” is absolutely applicable.
& if you think it’s a bad apple or two, explain how use of force incidents drop by as much as 80% over an entire police department when body cameras are employed.
You don’t have to like that “most cops are good cops” attitude helps entrench the problem, but you can’t do anything about it. Except knock it off.
Bummer, do we all have to hate Chris Rock now too? Of course his opinion piece was before the police went nuts with military hardware… and he does add the qualifier "probably " at the end…
The messenger matters. There’s a difference between: “Careful, friend, that man looks pretty dangerous, I’d stay out of his way” and “Careful, friend, I am very dangerous, stay out of my way.”
It would surprise no one to learn that a majority of abuses originate with as few as 20%, but even if it is only 20% it is indicative of a systemic problem that is getting worse.
Those good cops everyone likes to hold up against the bad cops are not only not winning, they are losing.
When a population centre gets out of control, authorities tend to lock everyone down in an attempt to restore order. It either is or will soon be time to consider police collectively, much as they view themselves.
Which is why Sir Bobby Peel rewrote how policing should be done way back in the 19th century. Policemen should always remember that they themselves are civilians, that they are a part of the community.
Sadistic cops seem to be more obsessed with impaling people than decapitating them. Usually through the anus, with things like broom handles, enemas, guns, toilet plungers, glowsticks, flashlights, etc. It’s one of those weird things, like all those anti-gay Republicans caught propositioning men… macho cops are all about the butt. I don’t understand it, but there it is.
This is how you deal with the police regarding the specific kinds of situations you find yourself encountering the police and at the frequency you find yourself encounter the police. THOSE are the elements that determine “what you know”. Get hassled by the police on a regular basis, for questionable reasons and in more immediately aggressive or derisive manners, and your “how i deal” is likely to change.
I learned a very long time ago that if it “walks like a duck and ‘talks’ like a duck” it is probably a DUCK! The only credit this individual should receive is that he informs an individual what he’s going to do and removes the element of surprise. In case you miss my point, his point that all a citizen has to do is to comply with his orders regardless whether a crime has been committed or not is more than bizarre!
Because your logic can wrap itself around this person’s thought process, perhaps you might explain why 80% of white Americans are not disturbed by the militarization of our local police departments. My color requires me to be quite uncomfortable of the guys in blue with guns and badges and the thought of one pointing a weapon at me and telling me to “disperse” translates to me as “I’d just as soon shot and kill you as spit!” Perhaps the veil of white privilege, ie, white skin, affirms that whites have nothing to fear from a world that is clearly quite mad?
