Sorry, I don’t want racists serving as police officers. While I’m not glad to see anyone lose their job right now, idiots like this should know better than to spout racist slurs.
But I'm not sure if they're racists or just naive, immature fools.
23 y.o. males with an interest in law enforcement are not typically the most self-reflective of creatures.
I think that they and their ilk would be best served, and hopefully serve the public, if they had the benefit of better mentoring.
These creeps did not.
I don't make any excuse for them.
People their age are typically an ugly piece of work when it comes to entry level positions. Add a badge, gun and police power and you have a recipe for ugliness and worse.
They were poorly served by the people who were supposed to mentor, supervise and teach them.
This doesn't happen in every police department. And not because other departments have better quality recruits than Philadelphia.
This is a failure of discipline and training.
I'm a lot more concerned about human predators than so called "racist" officers. There is nothing to indicate that this guy is racist other than using non-PC words. You sound like a lawyer.
“I’m not racist,” he says. “I work with black people everyday. They have jobs, they support their families, [and] they’re good people. Most of the people who live in this area are bad people. And they happen to be black.”