Changing The Conversation To, "You're Saying, 'All Cops Are Bad' So You're A Hypocrite"

[Ino]

73. Challenging that "probably 95%" statement...

One day I started thinking "There are all these cops who demand others do whatever they say, do it NOW, do it without question... who meet the slightest resistance or challenge with overarching force. Do they turn off that attitude when they go home?" I looked into that. Studies have shown that at least 40% of police officers engage in domestic violence (4 times the general population).
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/

As the National Center for Women and Policing noted in a heavily footnoted information sheet, "Two studies have found that at least 40 percent of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10 percent of families in the general population. A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24 percent, indicating that domestic violence is two to four times more common among police families than American families in general." Cops "typically handle cases of police family violence informally, often without an official report, investigation, or even check of the victim's safety," the summary continues. "This 'informal' method is often in direct contradiction to legislative mandates and departmental policies regarding the appropriate response to domestic violence crimes." Finally, "even officers who are found guilty of domestic violence are unlikely to be fired, arrested, or referred for prosecution."

So that leaves only 60% who may be "good people." There are probably a fair amount with cushy jobs who spend their days writing tickets and are never really put to the test.

But how many of those 60% who ARE put to the test see wrongdoing by their fellow officers and say nothing, look the other way, lie to help them cover it up, do not report the wrongdoing to their superiors? Most of them, IMO. Maybe they are good cops who would never engage in brutality themselves, but they are well aware of the repercussions that ratting out their partners would have to themselves. So they would rather watch someone get beaten, tazed, shot, arrested, jailed, humiliated & ruined than speak up. Their cowardice and weak moral center make them complicit, accessories, perjurers. That makes them nearly as bad as the bullies. Other than that though, they are great people

There are precious few cops who speak up. A statistically insignificant amount.

Do you know some "good cops"? Friends or relatives? Ask them what they would do (or what a good cop would do) if one of their fellow officers started beating someone up without cause. Listen carefully. Do they look annoyed and attack you for asking? or start hedging around the question, i.e. "Well, the perp shouldn't resist... you don't know what it's like... no one would do that... you have to control the situation"? How many of them immediately, unequivocally say, "I would stop him... I would report him"? Precious few.