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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Because a cop in Calgary doesn't really have any control over this situation. Not all cops are bad, many do good work and should be proud of that.
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I can definitely accept that not all cops are bad, ive met plenty who are very good people
to me. I don't want to give the impression that I think anyone who is a police officer is a bad person.
But, good people on a personal level can often get swept up into a mob mentality, an us vs them mentality, or even just a structural situation that makes them do things that they probably wouldn't do outside of the context of in the uniform and on patrol.
Beyond that, if you continue to uphold a status quo and organizational system that seems to consistently be problematic to healthy society shouldn't your immediate motivation be to change that system? I know all too well that the reality of this is no- you get set in your ways, you don't want to upset the group that you're a part of. The same principle applies to a group of college kids who engage in Hazing- usually not all of them or not even close to all of them are self motivated, but they fall into a group habit driven by structure, history, and comfort that detaches their "normal" behaviour from how they act in these scenarios.