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when's the last time a retail worker ended someone's life in the course of their duties and got away with it.?
the point is that we give these maniacs guns, minimal training that focuses on making them scared for their lives, and damn near immunity from prosecution, then act surprised when they panic and shoot innocent people. how this shit happens is blazingly obvious and a matter of public concern. the anger comes from the adamant refusal to even admit that there is a problem, let alone do anything to fix the red hot glowing issues.
but also, yes retail workers could do better, but that's more up to their employer. the reason we feel we can affect police is because these are public employees who's checks we pay for. these changes need to be systemic. they need to change the basics of who how and why police get trained and deployed. that is government reform. that is a voting issue. walmart employees could also do better if Walmart payed them better, gave them more time off to be with family when needed, gave better health insurance, provided better training and outside opportunities to their employees. but we know walmart won't do this things because they only care about profit. the police have no such obligation. their only obligation should be to us, but right now it's mostly just to the people with the money.
i could probably keep tearing your argument apart for 5 more paragraphs, but that woulf be obssesive. point is, you're conflaiting the point. it's not about individual gumption that good cops should turn others in. it's just a counter argument to "don't let a few bad apples spoil the bunch". we know that good cops speaking up won't help, that's the point. they get squeezed out when they try. that's why the changes need to be more systemic. the bad cops are entrenched and defended by moneyed interests.
Let me just state this: police violence makes me furious as well, and it also makes me really frustrated that there are so many people who will defend anything the police does. The solution to that is not jumping to the other extreme. That just deepens the trenches, and holy hell are they deep already.
Better training, more accountability, better conditions to attract more of the right kind of people to the job, I'm all for it. Let's not paint them all with one brush, because many are really in it for the right reasons. Because there's also the cop that spends years investigating a murder so that the perpetrator is caught before the next victim that arises. That finds answers for the family of a missing loved one. That finds that missing loved one. That breaks apart an organized crime ring that regularly assassinated people. Or even that gave that one pissed off person his 14th speeding ticket which made him slow down just enough to avoid a fatal accident. Are those also all bad cops?
So essentially, this:
is exactly the point.
Maybe 1 in a million, that's like an exception to the rule. It is true for every country.
If good cops follow Omerta, not report bad cops, let bad cops get by with breaking laws, don't testify against law breaking amongst them. They are bad cops if not today then potentially tomorrow. Eventually they all turn.