• accideath@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    I don’t like lumping in the individual with the group. I hate blanket statements. All they do is enforce the „us vs them“ mentality that, in my opinion, is a big part of the problem in the first place.
    But I also have the privilege of living in a country with a fairly well trained and regulated police force (Germany). I know it’s not perfect but it’s also not terrible.
    Most individual cops I‘ve met do their job for the right reasons.

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      Most individual cops I‘ve met do their job for the right reasons.

      Most individual cops I’ve met have been the most abrasive egotistical assholes in any room I met them in. The one that I knew was in a relationship really lent credence to the 40% of American cops self report committing domestic violence.

    • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m not a fan of lumping either, but it is literally in their job that they should be holding their peers accountable the same as every other person. They don’t, so even if they’re the individual cop doing it for the right reasons, they still have a burden of duty that they are shirking. Thus, in the lump they go.