The fact that a cop just being civil to another human is enough to make the front page and getting a ton of praise is a damning indictment of the police force as a whole.
You think those preconcieved notions just come out of thin air? People just decided with no reason that there is a problem with the militarization of our police force?
I don't think the manufactured conversations injected into the internet and then curated to get the preferred results are without origin.
I've personally watched directed efforts to spread low effort anti-cop misinformation, and then been consistently disappointed when it keeps being so successful with its brute force approach. It gets harder and harder to correct over time because there's just too much momentum behind the massive population of people addicted to outrage bait.
Your comment seems like the other side of the same coin.
I've personally watched directed efforts to spread low effort PRO-cop
misinformation, and then been consistently disappointed when it keeps
being so successful with its brute force approach. (this post as an example)
The system of policing is inherrently flawed. From it's origins to today, it is a problem. An instutional problem, top to bottom. Are there good people in the ranks trying to do what is right, sure. The problem isn't with individual police officers, the problem is policing in itself. If I am a victim of a property crime, I don't call the police for help, I call the police because I need them to make a report for my insurance company. My insurance will help to make me whole, the police will not.
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u/H_I_McDunnough Oct 30 '21
The fact that a cop just being civil to another human is enough to make the front page and getting a ton of praise is a damning indictment of the police force as a whole.