Shut the fuck up.

The problem is that most of the cops actually want to be cops, not to help their communities, but because it makes them feel important.

And virtually all cops have been convinced by their training that they are in the most dangerous job in the world and that everyone is coming after them and going to kill them, so to…

I suggest you read the studies, you may be surprised to find that you haven’t out thought researchers and they’ve controlled for that.

The defensiveness of cops is one of the big problems with the group. They really do get whiny, they really do bitch about how they’re disrespected, etc.

Wow, it’s insane how there can be massive disparencies in arrests by race if only 1% of them are doing their jobs wrong.

YOU don’t want to have a discussion.

Really? You really think 990,000 cops all defend what 10,000 might do wrong?

Counterpoint: You can’t harrass a community on a daily basis and occastionally shoot them...and expect full cooperation.

Well that’s their fault, and their problem to solve.

“My individual interaction with a few people means more than the overwhelming weight of data over the last century”

So it’s not a big deal that police, who make up a tiny fraction of the overall population, and are charged with specifically protecting that population, are killing people, because the rest of the 99.9% of the population is responsible for way more murders?

Here’s something about every single cop - they stay silent when they witness police wrongdoing. It’s quite possible that most cops are decent folks who got into the job with good intentions, but it is a fact that every cop has knowledge of a colleague abusing power in some capacity and chooses to stay silent. As long…

Maybe if beat cops weren’t so busy with their broken windows policing and relentless harassing of minorities for minor offenses, homicide detectives might find people more eager to talk.

Glad to see someone trotting out the “few bad apples” argument while ignoring the “spoils the bunch” part of it. Perhaps if they didn’t close ranks to defend criminal behavior amongst themselves, your point might carry more weight. Not shooting their fellow citizens is the baseline for good behavior, not an…

Chicago PD operated a black-site torture office for a decade:

I expect police forces to use less resources on less important crime, allowing them to invest more resources on murders, thus reducing the amount of homicide cases assigned to each detective.

Yeah...why do they hate the police?

The problem is this: when the good cops circle up and defend their own when they break the law, then there are actually no good cops.  

That does not happen daily.

Do you understand that the good doesn’t outweigh the bad and that doing “good” is actually their job? They’d get more credit for their good members if they actually did something about the bad ones.