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Originally Posted by transplant99
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.
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But if those good and decent people are not willing to stand up and stop the racists and murderers, if for every 1 cop willing to kneel on a man's neck until that man dies, there is a precinct full of cops who are willing to cover for him--I have little sympathy for the "good and decent" ones being lumped in. They may not be racist murderers, but they're protecting racist murderers. They may not be racist murderers, but they're proving that they don't care enough about those racist murderers to do something about it.
And that's almost worse. Because if one bad cop murders someone, but he's caught and prosecuted and kept from doing it again, sure that one single act is awful, but it stops at one awful act. If police allow those in their ranks to again and again commit crimes in the name of law enforcement, it adds up to a whole lot of terrible acts. You don't have to actively be a terrible person yourself to allow terrible people to hurt others.