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There was more than one bad police officer just holding down George Floyd.
I used to work for the police department. There is a reason I quit after a very short time.
My husband used to work for the police department. There is a reason he quit after a very short time.
Becoming a cop is a mindset for a certain type of person. I am not saying all cops are bad (but the bad ones seem to be more the rule than the exception). What I am saying is that the idea of having power, carrying a gun, etc, attracts a certain type of person.
When that type of person is allowed to run amok, George Floyd happens.
In what capacity and for how long and why, specifically, did you separate?
I was, for 25 years, a police officer and detective of a major urban police force in a community that was 85% minority and 30+% at or below the poverty line. I managed to do this without having any issues regarding problems with race, undo use of force, or any but a small number of complaints that are going to occur anytime one is dealing with the public when you are dealing with people, causing them consequences they’d rather not deal with and they blame others as the reason for that instead of considering themselves and their actions being responded to as the proper source to be addressed for their situation. Twenty-five years and you could count their number on two hands and have multiple fingers left over when all we’re accounted for and none substantiated because, after a given point, my reputation alone provided no fruitful ground to plant such seeds.
I was far from alone in my department in that.. The vast majority of us came to work wanting to make a living being of some good to society at large and make that living while positively impacting the city we worked for specifically. There were some bad apples in the bunch, but as a percentage I’d bet my net worth fewer than the percentage of bad apples in society in general. Again, the bad apples are far from the rule, and in number fewer than in society in general is my point.
That there should be none is the ideal, a given. That this is possible seeing that we’re talking about human beings, unlikely. How those bad apples that do get through get weeded out is something we can agree requires sitting down by reasonable, rational, people and addressing.
That there is a problem that sorely needs to be addressed, that is a certainty. Is that problem being over stated in the suggestion of how many officers are the root causes of it, most certainly. I can well understand how that might be the case given how much is not understood by the general public about policing (though anyone who’s seen a few episodes of “Law and Order” thinks they know how it works).
So, I’ve given you my bone fida, what’s yours? How are you qualified to make the comments you have with any authority?