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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]randome
(34,845 posts)48. Who is 'they'? Every one of the 30,000 police departments in the country?
Coordination between separate municipalities is not likely.
We still need to do something about the unnecessary violence and too-frequent murders but it's important to not ascribe something that isn't likely to be true.
As for the 1/2 of all cops beat their wives, all I can find is that abuse takes place at twice the national average. Something about this needs to be done, too, but I truly doubt half of all cops in 30,000 different municipalities just by coincidence are wife-beaters.
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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