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I wish you hadn't advocated violence, because your first sentence raised a good point. Where were the good cops, who we are assured comprise the majority, and w
by mistercow 10y ago
I wish you hadn't advocated violence, because your first sentence raised a good point. Where were the good cops, who we are assured comprise the majority, and who should have arrested these allegedly rare "bad apples"?
- ryanlol 10y agoIf there is no good cops then what we have is an armed gang going around robbing and shooting people on the street. Violence has always been considered an OK solution to that. Of course, one would hope that the idea that there exists no good cops to arrest the bad cops is as absurd as it sounds. When you take a look though, you'll quickly realise that internally the good cops are the "bad apples". To be fair, this is all probably just the natural outcome of how police departments are built. Putting people in these positions of power with no system built to effectively scrutinise their actions is inevitably going to lead to large scale corruption.
- pyre 10y agoProbably keeping their heads low because once you "turn" on another cop -- even if that cop is shooting up a crowd of people with a machine gun while eating babies -- other cops feel that they can't trust you anymore. If they make a mistake, any mistake, you will just "tattle" on them.
- dllthomas 10y agoIf we are to take the idiom seriously, the good cops (the rest of the barrel) are spoiled by the rare bad apples.