(September 6, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: You get heretic status for not agreeing with certain fevered minds that "NOT COPS ARE BAD" as you can see by reading their posts.
I think it's more like when you repeatedly post about not all cops being bad, you fail to understand the point of this thread and are, in fact, strawmanning the point being made in this thread yourself.
No one denies that a large portion of cops are good people, but repeating that mantra in the face of overwhelming evidence that the entire system is broken comes across as apologetic towards the problems being addressed, as you if you lack any real concern for these problems and are more concerned about the reptuations of police officers than the abuses of power of which many of them are guilty. Besides, many of the so-called "good" cops that aren't guilty of abuse personally turn a blind eye and won't report anything when their fellow officers cross the line. If good cops want us to know they're out there, they should be actively adddressing the abuses we're seeing all across the country.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell