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In reply to the discussion: Let's stop saying bad police officers are rare. Fact is they're plentiful from coast to coast. [View all]barbtries
(28,787 posts)42. as far as i am concerned
if you are not arresting the bad actors and standing up for the citizens who are brutalized, you are not a good cop. you're a bad cop. even if you never drew your gun or roughed someone up for no reason, if you are a policeman and you help other policemen evade the consequences for their crimes just because you're both policemen, you're a bad apple too.
a sea change in the culture needs to occur. i don't know how we make it happen, but starting with mass terminations sounds like a start to me.
no point imo talking about the "vast majority" of policemen being good and professional. as long as they got that solid blue wall protecting murderers and scofflaws they're just all bad.
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Let's stop saying bad police officers are rare. Fact is they're plentiful from coast to coast. [View all]
damnedifIknow
May 2015
OP
Nowhere is safe, not even San Francisco. My lawyer friend could tell you stories.
randys1
May 2015
#2
IMO, there are two kinds of cops. Those who shoot to kill and those who watch and/or
libdem4life
May 2015
#8
This article explains a lot, as to the source & origins of the bad cop epidemic
99th_Monkey
May 2015
#16
There are also a lot of ex-military who patrolled the streets of Baghdad and Kabul.
Fla Dem
May 2015
#32
Yes, there are several underlying causations for Cops Murdering Black Males
99th_Monkey
May 2015
#39
I did think I was being conservative with the bad cops when I wrote my post.
A Simple Game
May 2015
#50
Make the offending LEO's pay the lion share of the settlements, bet this shit would stop overnight
uponit7771
May 2015
#26