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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-10 11:47 AM
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43. Only if there are enough and they are analyzed to show correlation
You have produced nothing but a handful of cases and there are tens of thousands of police officers.

What would be indicative of a larger problem?
Show that the police are disproportionately committing crimes.
Show the actual rate of police criminality. Crimes per thousand...
Show that the justice system is disproportionately favoring police. Rate of conviction....
All you have done is show that a fraction of a percent of police officers break the law and are brought to justice. Where is the problem? Where is the evidence of poor policing when you can do nothing but produce anecdotes from a fraction of a percent of the police? You haven't seen the whole picture because you have are not even looking for it.

Obviously if you dedicated half the time you dedicate to finding, posting, and commenting on singular cases you could make progress toward actually demonstrating the problems you allege exist.


"Each incident is actually a big deal all to itself"
Only to the hyper obsessed.
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