[ SECRET POST #3083 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3083 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Unfairly? I can't agree.

Unfortunately, the cops who do their jobs without being racist scumbags don't make for exciting news, and so some people think good cops don't exist, I guess.

A complete failure of math as taught in US schools, I guess, when some people think 10% = 100%

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't have to be true of every cop - or even the majority - to be true of the police as an institution.

[(Anonymous)]

It would be nice if people would occasionally remember that cops also protect people from racism as well, though.

It's one of the reasons I'll never be able to support blanket statements.

[philstar22]

True. But the thing is, it isn't just random, individual cops who are causing the problem. There are problems inherent to police culture itself that are causing the excess violence that is aimed much more highly at African Americans.

[(Anonymous)]

So let me get this straight: You're saying that one bad apple (or a few) DOES spoil the entire barrel?

That certianly simplifies things for you, I guess.

(Might as well ignore the irony that it's that sort of thinking that is fundamental to racism and most other 'isms.)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that, and I wouldn't say that I dislike all police officers. I'm saying that the police, in America, as an institution, have serious issues and there are many valid critiques of them. For instance the level of institutional su0port that often exists for the mind of behavior that both you and I agree is bad. If a police department overlooks and abets the bad apples, shouldn't they be open to criticism for that?

[tabaqui]

Yes, actually, since the 'good ones' never seem to come forward and *do* anything about the bad ones. So they're all tainted, as far as I'm concerned.

[(Anonymous)]

No, but it's really easy to fear that any given cop might be a bad apple. I don't fear for myself around cops generally, I'm white and female and while I'm working class I more or less pass for middle. But poor black guys? (and latinos, around here) I know they're subject to more scrutiny for stuff I'd get a pass for, and that sucks for them.

[raspberryrain]

That's true to some degree.

But there are entire bad departments, too. It's one thing when a patrolman has a bad day and kills someone using excessive force. It's another thing when the whole department tries to cover for him. It's yet another thing when it's become standard procedure to shoot someone who was very little actual danger to you on a flimsy pretext.

In many, many police departments, we are way past a few bad eggs and well into institutional brutality.