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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You don’t want bad police officers out there, what you want is good cops who want to serve and protect the community and if those preschoolers want to be the good kind of cops when they grow up then more power to them.[/quote] I don't know if it is that simple. I agree we need some police officers, and that it is ok for preschoolers to say that they want to be police. But I don't think it is as straightforward as good vs. bad people. When you have a situation where a group of people is routinely viewed as other or less or dangerous, there is an incentive for even officers who are not inherently "bad" to dehumanize those people and act in violent and bad ways. I think we need more training, more accountability, and possibly rotations through more community-focused (vs. crime focused) assignments.[/quote] These are preschoolers...[/quote]
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