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[SN76477]

Generally speaking I believe the officers want to do the right thing, but the system is an intertangled web of perverse incentives.

I'm willing trust an officer as a person, but not as a part of the system.

[scarface_74 → SN76477]

My thoughts are there are hardly any good police officers.

I think if any officer saw another doing anything illegal or would get them in trouble, 99% of the time they wouldn’t report them. The Blue Wall is real.

[0ct4via → scarface_74]

Absolutely this -- for those that aren't aware of the term, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence

There has been substantial evidence of police hiding or deliberately not reporting misconduct from their colleagues, often because of fear of reprisals -- which absolutely is part of the system being objectively wrong.