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There are bad eggs everywhere, but it doesn't help the conversation when you project the minority onto the whole. By and large the police I have met in the UK
by mattmanser 13y ago
There are bad eggs everywhere, but it doesn't help the conversation when you project the minority onto the whole.
By and large the police I have met in the UK are helpful and diligent. And I say that having been arrested, searched and locked in a cell for 3 hours by the police for no good reason, so have felt violated by them before.
I don't live in the US, so can't comment, but I imagine it's the same.
- hga 13y agoIn the US, at least, I hold that outside of a few small rural departments, there are no good cops, full stop. Because the so-called good cops defend, with silence at minimum, all but the most extreme behavior of the really bad cops.
- TDL 13y agoAgreed. Good cops cease being good as soon as they look the other way and keep quiet when a bad cop does something wrong.
- EpicEng 13y agoBullshit. One, it's a major generalization based on, well, nothing, and two, it's not that simple. You can stand on your moral high ground all you like, but what you are suggesting is that all of the cops who do their job properly leave because they don't have the power to stop those who don't. Well, what's the result of that? More bad cops. Only bad cops. You overly simplistic view doesn't work in practice.