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i_never_ever_learn t1_itgnadj wrote

Reply to comment by RhoOfFeh in Criminal charges dropped against man left with paralysis in US police custody | US news by FreeChickenDinner

We all make sure to highly publicise the bad behaviour. Every time it happens everyone in the world has access to the story. This is good as far as it goes but in the same way that cops see a one sided view of the world because it is their job, we see a one sided view of them because that's what makes the news.

I say this as a convicted criminal.

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uzlonewolf t1_itgzagc wrote

It's not a 1-sided view, it's the inevitable outcome of giving people absolute power with zero accountability. One bad apple spoils the bunch, and there is currently no way to remove bad apples.

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casual_catgirl t1_itk0bmo wrote

Cops are just an apparatus of the state. They don't give two shits about the people. They will go against legitimately good and just causes just to enforce order at the behest of the elites and the will of the elites.

They have been on a great many wrong side of history. Take a look at climate protests, civil rights movement, going against protesters who were protesting the Vietnam war, they helped put in jail draft dodgers who had the moral high ground

The "good" cops either let shitty things their colleagues do happen or they get squeezed out for not being in on it with the rest of the gang. So there are no good cops

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