OK, but bad cops do an extraordinary amount of damage. One bad cop can help to poison a million minds.
It’s weird how this movement can only point to fabricated events to prove it. There was no ‘hands up, don’t shoot’. The police have no fault in Baltimore. These events this week are extremely unfortunate, but the victims were bad apples and that contributed to it. The events created by ‘bad cops’ are seldom and a tiny part of one percent. There’s no way to have 100% perfection, and magnifying such events to make them seem common is THE source of this problem.
Go out and look at the cop population of 1969 and compare to today. It’s like double and triple in some communities....going across small towns, urban areas, and states....even at the federal level. Do you really feel more safe now than in 1969? I think over half the population would say they were safer in 1969 than today.
A lot of the hostility is directed at cops because of the revenue gimmick of tickets....bringing in thousands each week to some towns. All of this is mostly paid by the lesser folks who can’t really afford four tickets a year for $750.
We need to force communities and cities to step back away from cops being revenue generators. All it does in the end is create frustrated people who pay year after year into some pot of city money because of tail lights, perceived speeds, etc.
i’m white and i’m more sceared of the cop than the crooks.
That is the “multiplier effect” of stereotyping. Ghetto children learn to be suspicious of cops at a very early age, because Mama teaches the children that cops “will getcha” as a backup to their own attempts at discipline. The cops are seen as a sort of boogie man who will come and grab you “for no reason”, as the kid sees it anyway, and the unspoken code of “not ratting out” your friends lets the growth of gangs go largely undetected until there are several bodies bleeding out and dying out on the street. THEN the cops show up, but “nobody saw nuffin’” becomes the common response.
No fathers in the homes, no adult male authority figures anywhere in these kids’ lives, and no code greater than “The Lord of the Flies” has ever been applied. Mama may have been disciplined enough to haul them off to the local church, but there was a Reverend Jeremiah Wright in the pulpit, shouting “God D*mn Amerikkka!” and a Nation of Islam representative in the back row, ready to recruit the ones who do show some interest.
All that, of course, and the “crab response”. Put one crab in a bucket, and the crab shall, by itself, rather easily pull itself up the side of the bucket, and escape. Put two or more crabs in the bucket, and as one nears the upper edge of the bucket, the others will pull it back in.
“One bad cop can help to poison a million minds.”
Does one bad pilot make you not fly?
People choose their poison.
they choose to think on a thought/memory etc repeatedly and accept it over and over making it “truth” in their mind alone, or to act on impulse of a suggestion or situation.
Resist the devil and he will flee - the bible says. ANYONE has the choice to resist or accept wrong into their life. Doing right is not easy when your family is all doing wrong though, it’s easier to go along with crowd then to break free and stand firm in righteousness initially.