Not willing to argue the merits of his actions, just trying to point back to my original post ... condemning all police because of a few idiots (in a group consisting of over 800K members) is just wrong and all I’m trying to say. Yet many here are more than willing to do so. That’s what I find sad.
If such events were so truly rare and so truly limited to a small percentage of officers, the the “law enforcement community” should have no trouble being much harsher (firing, jail time, appropriate fines) with the offenders and should have no cause or excuse to defend them in any “internal audit”.
. condemning all police because of a few idiots (in a group consisting of over 800K members) is just wrong and all I’m trying to say. Yet many here are more than willing to do so. That’s what I find sad.
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Actually what is sad is that the dwindling percentage of good cops absolutely refuse to discipline or hold accountable the bad actors. Somebody up thread nailed it—many today go into law enforcement not “to protect and to serve” but to “rule” and “lord over” the community’s citizens (and, of course, to accrue their pensions).