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[quote=Anonymous][quote]They're preschoolers. Of course they want to be police officers and firemen and nurses etc. The places where they see examples most often are cartoons and books where those characters are always positive. There are no bad cops in kids books. Mr. rogers called them "helpers". Teach your kid about the world and introduce reality and what's happening as it's age appropriate.

OP here. I'll respond to this post which was constructive, unlike many posts just calling me crazy.

I understand that kids might want to be police officers and it might be too much too use this to call into question what they are generally teaching their kids because of the things you mention. That makes sense.

But it still strikes me as tone deaf to submit those videos at this moment given what the country is going through. Sure, it isn't a statement that All Lives Matter or the kid wearing a MAGA hat in the video, but I never would have submitted that video right now. And if the video was done pre-nationwide protests, they had almost two weeks to submit something different.

Why submit/stick with something that could be interpreted as thumbing your nose at the current protests and be triggering to some people?[/quote]

Ok, I'm not going to call you crazy, but I'll say that your viewpoint seems unreasonable to most of the people who have reviewed your post.  I don't think it is appropriate to tell a 4 year old that they can't say that they want to be a police officer, regardless of the fact that there have been several very terrible incidents recently.  Do you advocate eliminating the police entirely?  If not, society is going to need at least some officers in the future.

As a second point, there are huge problems with racism in law enforcement, but really, there are huge problems with racism in our country as a whole.  We see the effects more clearly in law enforcement, due to the power dynamic and potential for violence inherent in that job, but I guarantee that there are many racist lawyers, judges, accountants, teachers, doctors etc. as well.  [/quote]

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