> the majority of law enforcement are there to do the right thing for the right reason What is the right thing? Does it extend to trying to prevent others from

> the majority of law enforcement are there to do the right thing for the right reason What is the right thing? Does it extend to trying to prevent others from doing the wrong thing? > we need to be careful to not send the impression that we should assume there is an assumed potential for wrong-doing in every person with a uniform Hasn't history and psychology shown us again and again that wrongdoing in aggregate is almost inevitable when you get a group of humans together? We should absolutely assume that where there's a high chance of a concentration of power there will be abuse somewhere, and proactively head it off. > send the impression That's a tricky one. If we actually do presume that there will be wrongdoing in aggregate, how do we avoid demotivating the 'good ones'? There must be a way to encourage the good ones to uphold standards and chuck out the 'bad apples' without feeling like they're under attack. "Rough Rides" [0] seem to be standard practice. I can't imagine any person with a shred of humanity thinking this is an acceptable way to treat another human, or that it wouldn't end up killing someone. But the fact is that it's commonplace, hasn't been stopped, the people that do it haven't been challenged or punished by the people who should know better. I've even seen the point of view expressed that this is 'standard procedure' so the driver shouldn't be singled out. Just saying 'it's only a few bad apples' perpetuates this situation. It's not an American thing, we have it in Europe too, and, I'm sure round the world. It's just down to statistics and innate human behaviour. When we have high-profile cases like this, we have a choice of saying 'it's a shame someone else died at the hands of some police, let's put them on desk duty' or saying 'is this systemic? how many days until it happens again?'. Unless we tackle that, we're always going to have abuses. Pretending otherwise is condemning another generation of black people / Irish / travellers / indigenous / homosexuals / tomorrow's minority group to more of the same. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_ride_(police_practice) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_ride_(police_practice)