A lot of cops are ex military. Are you saying they are all liars, thugs and have no honor??
There are bad people in all walks of life, the military and police included. There are also good people out there doing the job.
The only ones you ever hear about are the bad ones. No one ever says anything about the good cops out there and there are many great cops out there risking their lives every day.
Let’s discuss those great cops. Let’s say a man walks into a bank every day. Business, personal, etc. Every day he walks in and out. Every single time he does it just right. Depositing the checks into the account for the business. One day he walks into a bank and holds a gun in his hand. He takes money, robbing the bank.
Does the thousands, or even tens of thousands of times he didn’t rob the bank eradicate the one time he did? That is the excuse for the cops. The thousands of times they did not lie (supposedly) or were at least not caught count more than the one time they did. When it is a cop, we are supposed to see not the one time they were caught, but the thousands of times they did.
When you join an organization, be it Military, a country club, a business, or a police force. You agree to abide by the rules of that organization. When you violate the rules, you are disciplined.
In this case, the police officers took their lead from others, in this case a Sergeant brushed over the complaint from the victim, and despite the admission of the guilty cop, that he had beaten the shit out of the guy, nothing was done until it became public months later.
North Carolina police officer charged with felony assault after August beating of black pedestrian
Were the other cops disciplined when they wrote that only minimal force was used? No. The Sergeant was suspended for two weeks for covering up the assault by one of her officers. A lot of cops had to lie to protect one. Are you suggesting that this one department is somehow an anomaly and all the others are really straight shooters?
Buffalo New York. Carole Horne. A 19 year veteran who stopped a fellow cop from choking a handcuffed suspect who was not resisting in any way shape or form.
Buffalo officer Cariol Horne 'fired for trying to stop cop from choking black suspect' | Daily Mail Online
She was fired, because she put her hands on another officer who was in the process of choking a non resisting suspect. Everyone admits he was not resisting. Everyone admits that he was doing NOTHING to warrant any force. Yet Horne is the one who was fired, and lost her pension, for stopping a fellow cop. Thou shall not take sides against the brotherhood of the badge.
Story after story, event after event. They all have the same thing going on. If a cop is sacrificed to placate the public when the evidence and event is so egregious that it can’t be covered up, usually because of video, then the others are ignored. No matter if they committed a FELONY by writing their reports to reflect what did not actually happen. They lie, and they are rewarded for lying. If they object to the lie, they are disciplined.
Do you think that any cop in Buffalo is going to stand up and say that another cop was excessive? Do you think that any cop is going to step out of line in Buffalo ever again? The lesson of Carole Horne is obvious. Whatever the other cops are doing, no matter how outrageous, no matter how brutal, or illegal, back them up or else.
School Teachers intersect with hundreds of kids every day. We don’t give them a pass when the interaction becomes sexual. We don’t give them a pass when they diddle a student. We want to know when the administration found out, and what they did. If they did anything but call the cops, they are in trouble. But when a cop sees another cop breaking the law, that is something held behind the blue wall of silence.
The Chiefs of Police for San Francisco, and New York City called the practice of Police Perjury Testilying. How can you be a good cop if you lie to get a conviction?
Answer any of those questions, all of them. All you can do is restate that you believe most cops are good, and the rest is just nonsense. Isolated incidents. Fine Harvey Weinstein did not rape every woman he came in contact with, should we write off his victims because some or even most made it out with their bodies intact?