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Both of you are exhausting. Maybe you will have a different (and healthier) perspective if you stop living your life via social media.

There are almost a million cops in the US and you are basing your opinion of them on a half dozen videos that you saw on social media. Life and law enforcement incidents are rarely black and white. The people posting here have an agenda and zero actual LE experience. And if you disagree with them, they just call you names and continue their rant[/quote]

NP here, and this is for the PP and any other cop or cop-adjacent lurker who is reading this thread.  I do have sympathy for the non-racist cops.  It must sting to be judged by the racist ones' behavior.  But just "not being racist yourself" and "not having killed a Black person" is not the end of your obligation here.  The bar is higher than that.  Racism is systemic everywhere including in law enforcement, and clearly -- since we've been dealing with viral murders of Black men since Emmett Till -- public awareness isn't going to stop it.  You want to be an actual good cop?

- Advocate for radical transparency.  You know why we don't trust the police?  Because you all close ranks around your "bad apples" 99% of the time.  Stop it.  Conduct your internal investigations transparently. Be open about what's going on.  Maybe some sunlight will stop you from moving the cops who have a "tendency to use force too much with certain populations" to desk jobs or different precincts so they can keep their pensions.

- Advocate for systemic overhauls to root out the racism in your department.  There is racism in your department.  It's everywhere.  Let people report it knowing they'll be supported by their higher ups.  Create a culture where combating racism is taken seriously as a police value, and not as "a PC thing we have to do to appease the SJWs."  Support real consequences for racism, even at the early stages, so it doesn't take root, fester and escalate.

- Advocate for the de-escalation of police generally.  WTH are you all doing with discarded SWAT equipment and TANKS?!  This isn't Call of Duty.  You aren't military.  Become a part of the population you are sworn to serve and protect.  Study the effects of police de-escalation generally.  Remember, your goal is not to "win" every encounter with your "authority."  Your goal is to keep people safe.  Keep your ego out of it, and for god's sake, send back the armored trucks.

There are so many more things you can actually do to address the problem.  And if you do, I'm willing to bet that people will stop judging all cops by the ones who murder Black people.  Stop patting yourself on the back for not being one of them, and redirect your energy to things that will make a difference.  [/quote]

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