It’s true that the majority of police are great people. The problem is that there’s too many of them anymore who don’t control themselves - go on You Tube and search ‘police abuse’ and you’ll have hours and hours of video to watch.
Add to this the Code of Silence and then the balance of the good cops are covering up for the bad cops. Johannes Meserle (sic?) the BART cop in California is an example of this. He killed a kid who was cuffed and on the ground and in the first iterations of the reports of his colleagues they made it sound justified. And then the video came out and now Mr. Meserle is just out of jail for his criminal conviction.
Absent the video the ‘good cops’ with him would’ve covered for him.
And then the recent Florida issue where the cops murdered a man and then confiscated cell phones from the witnesses and destroyed them. Gee, twelve ‘good cops’ right?
So, yeah, most cops are good folks. But who wants to ‘win the lottery’ and meet one of those people who just can’t wait to use his taser? Or his Glock?
Not me.
I don’t have a lot of disagreement with you, but I’m not on the same page as you describe it.
Good cops don’t cover for bad cops. Cops who do this are bad cops.
Only cops on scene can do this. The rest of the department can’t. Lumping in ‘good cops’ as if the whole department is guilty if bad cops get off, isn’t very charitable to the cops not involved at all.
IMO, confiscation of video devices should be an immediate expulsion from the force and at least a year in prison. It’s the destruction of evidence. The police are supposed to protect the evidence, not destroy it.
Destroying evidence is an admission of guilt, and I don’t care if the infraction of the law was minor or major, the destruction of evidence is a major all by itself IMO.