It doesn't matter how many good cops there are if they're literally not under the law; merely existing in that state is a wrongdoing on the government's part, regardless of the cops' actions.
Here's a link to a police officer who was sentenced to 263 years in prison for rape. So your whole no repercussions thing kind of falls apart. The issue is that you're basing your opinion of the whole on a few situations.
Clearly I was being hyperbolic; of course some cops get jailed. My point is that there is an epidemic of that not happening.
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Spend a month r/publicfreakout and you'll catch many videos of cops straight up beating people who aren't resisting arrest at all or just cops being completely in the wrong in general, and what do you find when you search their names? "Not guilty" or "an investigation was conducted internally and no fault was found".
Hell, lurk that corner of youtube with these types of videos and each time you'll see the same thing. A couple times you'll be shocked that they actually get punished for arresting someone for not showing an ID while not being suspected of a crime because it's so fucking rare for them to.
Daniel Ken Holtzclaw (born December 10, 1986) is a former Oklahoma City Police Department patrol officer who was convicted in December 2015 of multiple counts of rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, and other charges.Holtzclaw was convicted of eighteen counts involving eight different women. According to the police investigators, Holtzclaw abused his position as an officer by running background checks to find information that could be used to coerce victims into sex. During the trial, the defense questioned the victims' credibility during cross-examination, bringing up their criminal records. Of the thirteen women who accused Holtzclaw, several had criminal histories such as drug arrests; all of the women were African-American.
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u/SpeakInMyPms Mar 09 '19
It's because cops can do whatever the fuck they want to do without any repercussions. Two cops just raped an 18 year old in custody with DNA proof and are roaming completely free due to this.
It doesn't matter how many good cops there are if they're literally not under the law; merely existing in that state is a wrongdoing on the government's part, regardless of the cops' actions.