General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: About that young lady the cop brutally attacked over the pool party.... [View all]Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Although you only see one cop acting like a drunken deranged asshole, I noticed that none of the other cops, who were calm, did anything to stop him. Not one of them told him to calm down or to stop raging at the kids.
I think that in itself is a bigger problem then the cops that act like soldiers in a war. If other cops are not willing to pull one of their own aside and say " what you are doing is not right" then things will never change.
Not all cops are bad people, in fact I think most are probably decent people, but they allow themselves to be seen as menacing, evil assholes because they do not stop things when they know it is wrong. This goes even beyond race sometimes. We saw it also during Occupy. You could see on the faces of many of the cops that they knew what they were doing was wrong, but they were so afraid of looking bad to their bosses and other cops that they pushed their conscience aside.