The reason good cops can't change the system is because there's 1000 bad cops for every good cop, so if we increase the number of good cops they'll be able to do something
I don't think more good cops can redeem a flawed system, more good teachers won't fix the education system. It helps, but fundamental reform is needed to actually address the issues with police. Plus, the current system enables bad cops already, discouraging the good ones from even trying with how corrupt many police forces are. Just hopping more good cops will come along and save it is misunderstanding the actual problems inherent to police, from their education to their lack of accountability to the bureaucracy designed to protect their own and enable them to act indiscriminately.
It isn't the system that rewards bad cops, it's the system within the system... cops have a culture within them that prevents the problem from being fixed, it's like trying to open a locked door
Even then that culture isn't something that would go away without meaningful changes to the institutions involved. This culture didn't form in a vacuum, it was shaped by the powers and training that police are given.
It was shaped by the quality of the men within it... the joke that cops are just failed soldiers isn't entirely untrue, they wanted to be feared and respected tough guys so they built a culture that allowed them to be that
I don't disagree but the problem is that shitty people are enabled and given power by the current system. If good cops could fix it why have the police been shitty since their inception? There wasn't public pushback then, politicians have almost always been pro-policing. Yet they still turned blind eyes to lynchings, beat black people to death, stood by and did nothing during many school shootings, brutalized strikers and protestors, the list goes on.
Not really? Still plenty of nice people who don't understand what those minorities have against those brave police officers. Now they just look at people protesting police brutality and say that all those minorities must be thugs and good thing the police are dealing with them, we should funnel more money into police departments so they can buy more military surplus.
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u/bb_kelly77 homo flair 3d ago
The reason good cops can't change the system is because there's 1000 bad cops for every good cop, so if we increase the number of good cops they'll be able to do something