[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I just don't think you'd be on the officer's side if they weren't American.

You don't need to be that intelligent to be a good officer, you just need good training, discipline and a cool head. It's the Patrol and Beat officers that are often caught abusing their position so it's a problem with the officers lower down on the totem pole. Better training is needed as well as strict consequences for officers that abuse their power. You hear far too often about a precinct protecting an officer in the wrong instead doing the right thing by the victims.

Well i agree with pretty much everything you've said, but when people attack cops, and have an anti-cop mentality, it's not surprising that they try to protect each other, because you are creating an us vs. them situation. I don't think demonizing cops does anything to improve the situation.

and these type of videos don't help eigther, because for every bad cop video, there are 1000 situations where cops were being professional and reasonable, but those don't trend on twitter or make it to the front page of reddit, do they? so it paints an unfair picture when the only videos you see of cops are when there's a bad one.

There are plenty of bad teachers and bad doctors and bad every other profession too.

I don't feel comfortable jumping on the anti-cops bandwagon.