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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For every egregious police act, can we also post every single good police act that occurred at that very same moment in time across our fifty states? Just for proportionality? I'm guessing if this is criminal--it's on video, will be investigated, and justice will be done. Will all the good police who were doing good work at the same time get commendations? Doubtful.[/quote]

I see this tactic used to shut down the discussion all the time. Imagine asking a battered woman to list a good thing that her husband has done.

No one rational thinks all cops are bad. But too many people are trying to drown out any discussion of bad or poorly trained cops. I'm AA and most of the bad cops I've encountered since childhood were black. They knew they could shakedown and abuse poor blacks with impunity so they did. There's law enforcement officers in my family and all of them know at least one officer that they would not want to stop their sons. But they toe the line because it's drilled into them in academy.

I can't understand it. I'm a teacher and have reported colleagues who were harming kids. [b]Even when I taught in a "dangerous" school with volatile students. Can't understand why cops don't do the same.[/b][/quote]

How do you know they don't? Sometimes the system makes it difficult to follow through.

As a teacher (one myself who just posted), you're telling me that every single teacher you've reported was cut?  Sometimes you can report until you're blue in the face, and people STILL aren't listening.

Perhaps that's the case with the police.  Sometimes being the squeaky wheel is more trouble than it's worth.

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