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In reply to the discussion: My wife wasn't fond of cops before this past year now she has no respect for them. [View all]branford
(4,462 posts)Furthermore, police cannot pull you over and arrest you on a "whim." There are actual laws and procedures, and citizens have ample civil legal remedies against department for civil rights violations, and when appropriate criminal penalties are available. Also, unlike the vast majority of young black males, the departments are not effectively judgment-proof.
You can keep trying to differentiate, and we can play this foolish game for hours. Would you rather discuss bad teachers who abuse children and the other teachers who look the other way in violation of their reporting obligations, and how we can't tell the good teachers from the bad?
Remember, I'm a fairly liberal Democrat who actually believes the generalizations, stereotypes and comparisons are stupid, I just refuse to make an arbitrary exception to common decency and applicable law because some are hypocrites when it comes to the police. How do you think most of everyone else not on DU feels, and why the police are still so very popular among a great many Americans.