[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Not sure why you addressed you comment to me, but if you are disagreeing with what I said " But, if the good ones cleaned out the bad ones, they wouldn't be in this mess. "

Tell me how, the police cleaning out the bad apples is wrong.

[rlmorel]

I didn’t say getting rid of bad cops is wrong. I addressed you because you post on Free Republic, and I operate on the assumption that anything you post can be commented on by any other poster.

What I disagree with is using the context of police brutality and an article that implies they had it coming all these years to justify that notion, because that lends credence to the false, corrosive and destructive notion that police brutality is the cause of black criminals killing policemen, because that is what this discussion is about.

The MAIN reasons one subset of the American population are involved with murder of police officers at a higher rate than the population in general are criminal behavior, close proximity to that behavior by a segment of the population, and racism. There is a sizable segment of that population that blames it on racism, and to give that any weight at all is not only wrong, given the current environment, it should be criminally wrong.

That is what I have a problem with.