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65% "tend to trust the police" Are people living under rocks?

• tracker1 11y ago
  Most people are mostly good.. that is an absolute truth, and unless police aren't people, then most police are also mostly good. That's not to say I don't despise some of the actions, the blue vs. everyone else tactics and stances that have been taken in some incidents... or those organizationally corrupt. That said, most people (and police) are mostly good.
  • csours 11y ago
    Most people can't fuck you up as much as a bad encounter with a cop, so it doesn't really matter if "most" cops are good; what matters is that you never have a bad encounter with a cop. Some people, and some classes of people[1] are almost guaranteed to have bad encounters with cops. A good goal would be to reduce the number and severity of bad encounters. 1. Ethnic Minorities, Persons with mental health issues, etc.
• home_boi 11y ago
  No, some people just aren't living in urban places. Police in the suburbs are chill because they don't have to fear for their lives and don't usually deal with delinquent giving them attitude. People treat police well. Police treat people well. The gift keeps on giving and everyone is happy.
• PuffinBlue 11y ago
  Some people don't live in the US. I live in the UK where we have a completely different approach to policing. I trust the police. They work hard in our communities to gain that trust. They don't always get it right and they have their issues (some very big) but on balance they are a trusted part of (most of) our communities here. I really don't want to get into a flame war or anything, it's just that lots of different place in the world have very different police forces.
  • mineshaftgap 11y ago
    Including within the US. Cops dealing with gangs in Chicago are much different than the ones is sleepy suburbs.