RE: Fucking Cops
December 20, 2014 at 9:16 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2014 at 11:01 am by Cato.)
(December 19, 2014 at 11:25 pm)psychoslice Wrote: Ha, what about you, you go on with the same old story, bashing cops, as long as you go on bashing cops I will go on defending them.
I am almost certain I am wasting my time with this, but here goes.
The 'not all cops are bad' routine is misplaced since it does nothing to help solve the problem, which is that the 'bad' cops are not held accountable for their transgressions. In my mind this makes the 'good' cops complicit, particularly since they help support the various brotherhoods and fraternities that wield political power to ensure cops remain above the laws that would be used to place the rest of us behind bars. To me this is quite similar to 'good priests' knowing and doing nothing when the Catholic church was playing the shell game with pedophile priests. Doing nothing when you have the ability to influence outcomes makes one complicit. The 'do nothing' good cops are a big part of the problem.
Until bad cops are held accountable for their actions, the entire enterprise can go fuck itself. Your entire defense is pointing at people and giving them hero status for simply doing their jobs. Despite what you see in entertainment, the daily life of a cop is fairly mundane. This of course does not take away from the few who truly rise to the occasion and go above and beyond for the sake of public safety. Let's agree to reserve hero status for those that are actually heroic and not a label for simply donning a uniform. This would go a long way towards removing the veneer of unearned respectability that automatically comes with the badge. Let them earn our respect. Cops are public servants and should be kissing citizens' asses, not the other way around.
Police today are nothing more than overgrown third grade hall monitors. If police want our respect, let them earn it. The 'good cops' should make a stand and rid their ranks of the bad actors. The fact they don't should tell you something.