"I'm a black ex-cop & this is the real truth about race and policing" (spoiler: it's the leadership)

[George II]

7. I think there are exaggerations or incorrect assessments here on both ends. From my experience...

...(growing up in NYC and working the graveyard shift in a hospital emergency room for a couple of years), I think the bad % is less than 10% or even lower, the good % is much higher than 15% probably more than 50% and that middle group is way lower than 70%.

I saw very very good officers, who brought in patients of all races (accident victims, violent crime victims, sick people), treating them the way they should have been treated, and went over and above what would normally be expected to make them comfortable.

I saw very very bad officers, including one who "arrested" me for driving with just my parking lights on, and held me for two or three hours. I am WHITE, and was a college student at the time.

I seriously think that many of the bad cops are innately bad and mistreat anyone of any race who interferes with what they perceive to be their "job".

There are bad actors in any profession - police officers, fire fighters, bankers, soldiers, store clerks, engineers, lawyers, politicians, teachers, etc. The reason people think there are so many is that we don't hear about the 90%+ of those people, in all walks of life, who just go about doing their jobs professionally and competently. But if acts bad, in any profession, we hear about it and the knee-jerk reaction is "just another crooked politician", "just another abusive officer", "just another crooked lawyer", etc.