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Ok, and I think yours is a piss poor take. Someone can want to do good and try to make a difference. You're saying no one ever can so let's just demonize the lot. Change doesn't happen that way.
At one point, the system is so rotten that it needs to be reconstructed from the ground up.
As we've seen with so many PDs, corruption is rampant and the PDs actively discourage going against the club.
Any change proposed to reign in the PDs is met with extreme resistance.
And that's not mentioning that many PDs have close ties to racist groups.
I get that some people enter to make a difference, but those that really do want to change the police for the better get chewed out by their own. The other that stay turn a blind eye and are not really trying to make a difference anymore
There is no goodwill coming from PDs. Always some dumb platitudes with no real changes.
You seem to be trying to convince me that the system is broken, I already agree with that. But you're claiming to know exactly how everything plays out when a person tries to be a good cop. You claim to know exactly how that goes, every time. What makes you so confident, what information do you have? We're you a cop?
I'm saying there is still the possibility for a cop to join and want to do good. Hate cops all you want, but a few have done good things, a few have helped people. We need to go after bad cops, of course, and try to fix the broken system. But at the same time we can't ignore the ones who actually do good, that behavior should be encouraged, not shat on.