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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When good cops protect bad cops, they’re culpable. The police need to do a better job of policing themselves.

The respect problem they have was earned. [/quote]

When cops clean house, this issue will go away.[/quote]

So my DH is a good cop on a shift full of good cops. They have tons of life-saving awards between them and no internal affairs investigations. They support each other and hold each other accountable. In short, they are exactly what you want police to be. So here’s the question: they receive the same anti-police hostility as every other police officer. What else can they possibly do to please the anti-police crowd? PP says they “earned” this problem. What more can they do to earn your respect? Sincerely... I would like to know. It pains ME to see how beat up he feels, and yet he walks out the door to do more good work in spite of the hate he receives. [/quote]

He can make it clear publicly that black lives matter to him, that he is committed to fair and just policing, that he agrees Derek Chauvin (as one example) was wrong to kneel on George Floyd's neck for 9 minutes, etc.  Don's assume people just know you are one of the good guys.  Say it.  Show it.  Condemn unwarranted police violence when it happens.

Awards awarded by policing institutions might carry less weight than making it clear that you condemn the treatment of Sandra Bland, or Philando Castile, etc. etc.  The short hand to show that you agree with that is "Black Lives Matter".  [/quote]

DP. It seems like this issue of "there are some bad apples but most cops are good so why are they being treated bad like the bad ones" is similar to "there are some bad apples in the black community but many are good so why are they being treated bad like the bad ones".

It's interesting that some people seem to understand the situation on the black side but not the cops side. Cops can literally be shot dead in a second if they don't protect themselves properly.

Instead of just saying that cops should bend over backwards to prove that they aren't one of the bad apples, maybe the good black people should also bend over backwards to make it clear that they're not in the group that are going to fight an officer and use his weapon against him or randomly pull out a weapon of his own and fire it. But then people say why should people in that group (either group) need to do that.

I don't think anything is going to improve here until we get people on BOTH sides to acknowledge that each group could do more to show that they aren't one of the bad apples in their group. And to stop protecting the bad apples and do more to make sure that the bad apples in their group are in prison for as long as possible. With the bad apples all gone, people could relax more and we can have a better country.[/quote]

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