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The Myth of Systemic Police Racism
- a3n 6y agoCan't read the article, but based on the headline and sub headline ... I've been thinking about this for days now. And I think that the truth is, yes, these police murders and assaults are committed by a relatively few "bad apples." But also yes, there is systemic racism. Systemic. The combination of qualified immunity rulings, laws and their interpretations, police union contracts, and worst of all, "the blue wall of silence," means that these few bad apples can be confident that they'll get away with whatever they do. The system as a whole has congealed into conditions that are favorable to the "bad apples." Yes, it's systemic.