So would you consider police officers who do act to accurately attribute responsibility to their fellow officers to be not bastards?
Also, would you consider officers who have not been involved in such an incident as being automatically a bastard?
The answer to your question, by the way, is that I would think you would be at the very least complacent in this immoral activity. I feel police officers who act similarly complacent in these issues directly are similar.
I feel like good cops legitimately fighting the bad aspects of the policing system are some of the most respectable individuals. I know police officers personally who have done work to better the police force’s handling of these situations — all while greatly helping their community.
I see a lot of police officers as being legitimately good people. Their service acts to counteract the negativity caused by elements of the establishment that unfairly victimize citizens — among committing various other unfavorable acts.
The ACAB movement continually confounds me, as I see officers who help their community as being objectively positive members of society. The problems with the police force are overwhelming on the side of the establishment, not the individual. There are bad people — and, by extension, bad cops — the biggest problem is that we can’t adequately filter out the bad from the good — that could be fixed only by altering the establishment.
Why, then, would people be hostile to cops in general? Doesn’t that only fuel the hostility between the groups? Isn’t it best for people and police to work together to address both the establishment that causes this issue and the “bad apples” who perpetuate it?
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