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Bettie

(16,095 posts)
2. I think it has more to do wtih
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 03:05 PM
Oct 2021

police workplace culture combined with police departments weeding out non-authoritarians and people who are of above average intelligence.

So, mix that with a few toxic magats and you've got a bunch of brutal authoritarians and followers who believe that the "public good" is whatever they say it is.

Weird. Not too many years ago, I thought most cops were decent. Now? I suspect that a few are relatively decent on an individual basis, but that the workplace culture in the vast majority of departments is toxic to communities.

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