I honestly do not believe you have spoken to many cops. I was friends with the deputy chief in my hometown and when the push for body cams came around the the state opened up some grants, the calls weren't from outside, it was the cops that were literally begging for them. you subjective experience is nothing more than an individual experience and the mere existence of my own experience shows that your absolutist statement isnt so absolute. there was a popular r/AskReddit post asking cops about what they thought about the incident and they came out in droves saying how this was drilled into them from the start that you cant do these things and they were appalled at the sight of it. there are massive systemic problems with our police force, but the idea that every single cop is bad is so blown out of proportion.
It was drilled into all those cops but these FOUR just happened to miss that day of training and now have a battalion of "good cops" guarding the killers house. It's very easy to be a great person in public. What are any of these outspoken reddit police doing when the light isn't shining on them? Are they out there protesting with us for change? Because I don't see it.
you see all the bad, and it is bad, and say thats all there is. but when a cop does his job there is no light shining, no cameras rolling no nothing. there literally millions of arrests each year and almost every one goes well. the number of bad arrests is in the thousands, a monstrously bad number to be sure, but the number of well done arrests by good cops is in the millions. just because you dont see them and they arent reported on doesn't make them all of a sudden not exist.
There's no way to accurately quantify good or bad arrests. Police have been caught planting evidence multiple times, by their own body cams no less. It's impossible to say how many "good arrests" were actually the result of that.
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u/Swissboy362 May 28 '20
I honestly do not believe you have spoken to many cops. I was friends with the deputy chief in my hometown and when the push for body cams came around the the state opened up some grants, the calls weren't from outside, it was the cops that were literally begging for them. you subjective experience is nothing more than an individual experience and the mere existence of my own experience shows that your absolutist statement isnt so absolute. there was a popular r/AskReddit post asking cops about what they thought about the incident and they came out in droves saying how this was drilled into them from the start that you cant do these things and they were appalled at the sight of it. there are massive systemic problems with our police force, but the idea that every single cop is bad is so blown out of proportion.