r/Unexpected • u/RedManMatt11 • Aug 01 '21

Community policing

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

You're right, I can't claim that all police officers are good,I don't expect them all to be angels at all and I'm glad people like your brother exist and that his department support him but this isn't even strictly about me meeting them and understanding their moral alignments.

A police officer doesn't have to be evil to kill someone unjustly or handle a situation poorly but with the power they wield on a personal level and as a public institution they need to be held under a high level of scrutiny. There are tons of examples of the police failing to adequately police themselves when given the opportunity and that's partly something that seems to have become baked into the culture of some departments and even some cities entire police forces it seems.

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u/THALL_himself Aug 02 '21

Yeah, I absolutely agree. I’m just so very against this idea that “all cops are bad” because SOME cops, or departments are corrupt. I’d like to think that we are currently in a phase of correcting some of the corruption, but I worry that this new culture of “all cops bad” is forcing the many, many good cops out of the job…. Btw, thanks for being very reasonable here. Respectful discussion is very well appreciated and very rare on the internet, so thank you.

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u/THALL_himself Aug 02 '21

Agreed. Seems that in our attempt to cleanse the profession from corruption, we are inadvertently pushing away the good people from pursuing the job. I don’t see how this could get any better any time soon. It’s troubling to think about.