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Originally Posted by wittynickname
The problem is that the people like this in law enforcement need to band together and demand change from the all-too-many officers who do not feel this way. And there needs to be an independent oversight--DAs/prosecutors/etc all count on the police to do their jobs, so they are inherently biased. There needs to be another group to watchdog law enforcement, a group that will, without bias, demand justice when cops overstep their powers. There needs to be better screening of potential officers, they need to be better trained in areas of de-escalation. They need to have regular visits with mental health professionals, as much to weed out the bad ones, as to keep the good ones from getting overwhelmed.
There are good police. They need to demand that their brothers in arms meet their standard.
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No question...and lumping the vast vast majority of them who are good and decent people as "racist murderers" because they wear the same uniform as some bad apples is about as counter productive as anything that could possibly be done.
It all stats with leadership though, and political will and capital needs to be spent to do so. That's a whole conversation on its own though.