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There are police officers who mean well and also officers who abuse their power; and police forces in different places have different institutional cultures and

• eyelidlessness 6y ago
  Look, it’s not like the bad apples theory hasn’t been debated to death. If you’re uncomfortable with the “good apples” being tarnished by the “bad apples”, you’ll have a better impact by working to change the pervasive culture of: - those “bad apples” being almost universally exempt from meaningful accountability proportional to their power and actions - those “good apples” being unwilling to lead those accountability efforts, or even to just distance themselves from the “bad apples” to set a better example - the clear and consistent bias overall in favor of these far right/fascist actors, including numerous times being caught on camera actively coordinating and ample video evidence of such bias in plain view If “the police” don’t want to be viewed as a homogeneous pro-fascist force, they need to not act like one.