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Originally Posted by molson
There isn't one unified national police force. The Dallas officers who were killed had nothing to do with mistakes made by officers in Minnesota and Louisiana. There's nothing they could have done to prevent that.
Each agency is its own entity.
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I realize that. But that doesn't mean that each agency is a good one. Dallas appears to be, and it's horrible that they had to suffer. But there are bad ones. Some precincts are corrupt, just as some local governments are corrupt (and often they protect each other).
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Originally Posted by molson
Police officers didn't invent the concepts of racial injustice and racial economic disparity. They're just thrown into the messy realities in more intense ways than you and I are.
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Police officers in many areas were invented to perpetuate that injustice and economic disparity though. From slave patrols, to the Klan, to local law enforcement. That's what I'm arguing has to be stopped. I'd say it's better than it was, but it's not fully out of the system.