To the majority of cops---the good ones:

[Atticus]

I have personally known several of you. I liked and respected you and I believe that was reciprocated. But, some of the people wearing that same badge you wear are mean assholes.

Some are---yes---racists.

Some are sexist jerks.

Some are Rambo wannabes.

And, some became cops because they like to hurt people.

These people think "To Serve and Protect" is just that silly-ass slogan painted on their car.

These people think of themselves as "warriors" and that makes most of their community "the enemy".

These people tarnish the star YOU wear.

You know "legal" and "right" and "fair" and you know that common sense is just as important a law enforcement tool as your sidearm or taser.

Help us identify and replace these incompetents with others like you.

[msongs]

1. what makes u think the majority of cops are "good ones"? good cops who cover for bad

cops are not actually "good ones" IMO

[Nevilledog]

5. +100000

[Atticus]

6. I believe the majority of people are basically good people. And I don't believe that good cops with

bill's to pay and kids to feed are immune to the fear of losing their jobs, their reputations and their paychecks for not being "loyal" to others on the force. It takes a lot of courage to report bad fellow cops for wrongdoing. While I wish more would, I will not judge those who don't to be "bad" cops without more.

[demosincebirth]

17. Most cops who lose the jobs go and apply to another jurisdiction and get hired because they don't

have to train a new cop. this is what happens here in California. They don't have to switch pensions or anything of that nature. Ego also keeps the blinders on.

[LizBeth]

20. Lots of reasons, granted. And here we sit well knowing they are not on our side.

[Atticus]

24. Joe is proposing a national registry that will stop the job-hopping for the bad actors. nt

[Hotler]

2. LE personal, want to make points with us, instead of standing against us,

stand with us and protect us from him.

[iemitsu]

3. The good cops end up quitting.

[LizBeth]

4. No good cops. They had there chance the last handful of months and they all stand down

and allow the "bad" cops to control the show. They can no longer separate themselves.

[Atticus]

9. "Simplistic" is the best I can muster for that. nt

[LizBeth]

13. Or watching the last 6 months and the silence from that blue line as they get in the caravans and

support the chaos while throwing white power signs to cheer the supremacists while taking down the protester and not a damn word from our "good" cops.

[Atticus]

16. I simply believe you paint with way too broad a brush. nt

[LizBeth]

31. Well staying quiet does make it a pretty broad brush cause I am not hearing any "good" cop

calling out any of the atrocious behavior from the lowest to highest ranks.

[wellst0nev0ter]

35. This is what happens to good cops

At least the ones who don't keep their mouths shut

[Newest Reality]

7. They seem to support Fascism

because it obviously gives them much more power and far less accountability. They can even get away with more judge, jury and executioner style police work as wannabe Judge Dredds.

Fascism likes bad cops a lot, in fact good cops are bad cops in that kind of police state. They go hand-in-hand.

Trump has a lot to offer them and so he gets their full support. They are next in line for more power and can ignore the basic ideas of working for the people's respect, etc. It's too tempting to resist.

That happened during the Wiemar Republic, too, when the police accepted the Nazi's because it solved all kinds of enforcement problems for them.

[aidbo]

8. ACAB

[stillcool]

10. Coast to coast...they're all behaving the same

My family were cops, Irish Catholic cops, with a penchant for whiskey. And a penchant for violence that follows the whiskey. I felt empathy for them, the situations they found themselves in, seeing the worst that humankind has to offer. I have no doubt they were racist, and that they did what they wanted to those who could not fight back. I experienced it. Heard about it. Seems weird even writing about them, in the context of what I see today. Was it the same? I was growing up in a volatile surrounding with relatives. Funny how different things look when you're on the outside looking in.

[Statistical]

11. The majority of cops are not "the good ones".

If they were they wouldn't be covering for the murder and assault done by the "bad ones" in their name.

Which of the brownshirts were the good ones?

[demosincebirth]

19. I see your point, but the brown shirts also got their due.

[Codeine]

12. There are no good cops.

If they were good they would stand up to those who bully and abuse and flat-out murder.

But they don’t. They cover for them. They excuse them. They rationalize their brutality and pretend it’s self-defense.

Fuck all of them.

[Atticus]

14. It is easy to say what "all of them" should do when it is not your ass that is on the line and when

there are hundreds of ways you can be hung out to dry if you are tagged as a "rat".

Newsflash: this is not a cut-and-dried black-and-white issue.

[Codeine]

26. If the majority of them were good

then the pressures and “being hung out to dry” wouldn’t be issues.

Make all the excuses for them that you wish, but understand that perceptions have changed; people are coming to grips with the notion that the police are an occupying force who mete out violence and brutality as and when they please. I’m no longer interested in hearing people justify this state of affairs.

[Atticus]

28. "If the majority of them were good then the pressures and "being hung out to dry" wouldn't be

issues".

What color is the sky in the world you live in?

[Clearly fogged in]

15. The good / bad always rends itself useless

if it was as easy as rating leo's on being thoughtful, we could say naughty / nice instead. How do we find a metric for suitability? How do we stop shielding adverse performance from public view? Can we frame a fight in a way to gain some ground?

[Atticus]

18. Are you sure you are in the right thread? That was thoughtful! Thanks. nt

[Clearly fogged in]

22. I think joe and kamala know what to do

[JonLP24]

21. I'm not sure there are that many "good cops"

Did you see the video of cops beating up a Biden supporter? Recently Philadelphia PD destroyed a woman's vehicle and kidnapped her child for a propaganda post on social media. They are openly colluding with Trump supporters because many of them are in fact Trump supporters.

[Atticus]

23. "Some" is a useful word, as in "some" cops are mean assholes. "Some" is not nearly the same as "all

To blame all of any group for the evil done by some of them is, hopefully, obviously wrong.

[JonLP24]

25. I have seen police treat left wing protestors a lot worse than right wing protestors

They choose those unions to represent them. A group was pepper sprayed marching to the polls.

You should tell the police all that not me. They are the ones discriminating.

[BlueIdaho]

27. Depending on your color, your age, and your politics

Every cop can be a good cop or a bad cop.

[Codeine]

29. More and more of us are figuring out

what some have always known. I know my perception of the police has changed radically in the last decade. I am embarrassed by my previous tendency to assume they were in the right automatically, to give them the benefit of the doubt far past what I now understand to be reasonable.

[LizBeth]

32. My son and I were having this conversation today. I agree with you.

[bdtrppr6]

30. defund/demilitarize the police

we need community helpers to deal with the homeless and psych cases, not armed and half psychotic roid-ragers instantly shooting at people. cops always escalate just by their presence and being prone to sudden gun related violence.

[renate]

33. I think a lot of cops are good. I used to think the majority were

I’ve posted earlier tonight about cops so I won’t repeat myself. We have a dear family friend who’s a cop whom I love very much and who is absolutely and totally a good guy.

I used to think the vast majority were good. I still think a whole lot of them are. But I no longer think it’s a tiny minority who are bad. It makes me sad. I used to really look up to them.

[ansible]

34. The only thing a cop cares about is their retirement plan

Lisa needs braces!