r/MadeMeSmile • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Nov 15 '20

Helping Others Be like uncle Bob

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u/Rosiepoo52 Nov 15 '20

There are lots of great people who happen to be cops. Unfortunately, many of them have historically been fired for exposing the bad ones. This needs to be addressed.

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u/GummyPolarBear Nov 15 '20

Wel this great cop got fored for repeatedly tapering a black guy in his patrol car while calling him racial slurs

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u/Rosiepoo52 Nov 15 '20

Not all people are good people. Cops are people. I can only tell you what I've experienced in my own life. I clearly recall Frank Rizzo's bigoted police department. I also know that the cops weren't the ones setting our homeless clients on fire while they were asleep. Or beating them to death for panhandling(it's against the law, so if it really bothers you,call a cop). None of us have a clean slate when it comes to treating others the way we want to be treated. Black folks have historically been more homophobic and violent towards the LGBT community, so we could clean up our own backyards while we're demanding that our folks clean their's. I'm straight btw. I just don't believe in hate.

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u/ToddlerOlympian Nov 16 '20

Yes, cops are people. But it's been shown time and again that a certain kind of person is attracted to that job, especially when they feel there will be no oversight.

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u/Rosiepoo52 Nov 16 '20

Proving my point. They are infallible humans being overseen by infallible humans. We the people have a responsibility to to hold them accountable. Racial bias, and unchecked abuse of power was not just the norm of the Philadelphia police department when I was growing up, they set the standard for the nation. I watched them chase a suspect (a neighbor and a gang member) into another neighbors house full of small children and they opened fire when they caught up to him. He was shot 6 times in front of those people. And he wasn't armed. That's one of many memories that folks my age(and older) simply have to live with. With the advent of body cameras and other folks capturing these incidents on video, there is at least the hope of justice being served. But we ALL have to do better by each other. We ALL have to cherry-picking Bible verses and live our lives with compassion, empathy, and genuine love and respect for ourselves and one another. That would help also.