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BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Are the cops in the US really that bad?

News items are news because they are rare. The US amplifies it’s negatives in search of eyeballs and in search of fixing problems. The average officer is average, not the extreme you see on the news.

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HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah but whenever multiple cops show up to a scene, there’s almost always one bad cop there. Then the “average” cops don’t do a thing to stop the bad one, and you end up with a bunch of bad cops.

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realcaseyrollins ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It really depends on the police department. Some are good, some are bad.

The real problem is the police unions. They protect bad cops and make them hard to fire, so usually if someone acts up, the most a police department can do is have that officer transferred.