Hard disagree. My wife was stopped due to expired registration on our car - My fault, long story. The cop gave her a fix it ticket. Nothing else happened. They’re a good cop, or at least they were in that moment.
You know what would have happened if they were a bad cop in that moment? She would have been deported for having brown skin.
Good cops don’t make headlines, but they exist, and I’m grateful for the good ones we’ve encountered.
Bare minimum would have been not pulling her over in the first place, or giving a warning. I’ve encountered cops in the past that ticketed me for things that I found out later I should not have been ticketed for, and they were dicks while they did it.
This wasn’t the bare minimum, and they didn’t abuse their power. Definitely wasn’t a “bad cop”.
“Good” cops become automatically bad just by failing to police their own. One single openly bad cop is enough to make ALL of them bad. They have way too much power to be allowed one single abuse, let alone a systematic persecution of poor people.
They always say “we have a few bad apples” and never complete the expression, which is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”. I think the full expression makes the analogy correct.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hard disagree. My wife was stopped due to expired registration on our car - My fault, long story. The cop gave her a fix it ticket. Nothing else happened. They’re a good cop, or at least they were in that moment.
You know what would have happened if they were a bad cop in that moment? She would have been deported for having brown skin.
Good cops don’t make headlines, but they exist, and I’m grateful for the good ones we’ve encountered.
That being said, bad cops can fuck right off.
FlockAdmiralEmu@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
My dude, that cop did the bare minimum of their job. I don’t believe that should be your definition of ‘good’.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Bare minimum would have been not pulling her over in the first place, or giving a warning. I’ve encountered cops in the past that ticketed me for things that I found out later I should not have been ticketed for, and they were dicks while they did it.
This wasn’t the bare minimum, and they didn’t abuse their power. Definitely wasn’t a “bad cop”.
nomy@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
But by virtue of being a cop, was a bastard.
destructdisc@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There are no good cops.
There are bad cops, and there are cops that do their jobs – that doesn’t make them good cops.
wulrus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Bad cops, even the worst of the worst, do a normal job 99% of the time. It’s the other 1 % of their actions that have such a negative impact.
hernanca@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“Good” cops become automatically bad just by failing to police their own. One single openly bad cop is enough to make ALL of them bad. They have way too much power to be allowed one single abuse, let alone a systematic persecution of poor people.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They always say “we have a few bad apples” and never complete the expression, which is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”. I think the full expression makes the analogy correct.