• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    How does this prove all cops are bad though? For that cop that mag dumped due to an acorn there has been thousands that made a better decision in a similar situation.

    There is no justification for the acorn incident but I don’t see how the incident proves they are all bad apples.

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      5 months ago

      It doesn’t, but the person they’re talking about apparently has a history of defending the bad ones. This event was so egregious even they couldn’t come up with anything.

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      4 months ago

      this one is just trigger-happy incompetence, but the phrase “a few bad apples” ends with “spoil the whole barrel” and the police are a perfect example of that. The way they close ranks and try to protect one another from responsibility for really egregious shit means that not every cop is a criminal, but that every cop ignores crimes that other cops commit.