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Originally Posted by Blackadar
I don't believe you are correct Molson. The assumptions aren't being made about individual officers. They're being made about the system that allows, sometimes encourages and protects police officers at the expense of the public at general and specifically poor and minority communities.
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You don't think people are making assumptions about this officer - and not just his actions, but his thought-process, racial attitudes, etc.?
I have a ton of disagreements with the way things are done in these various criminal justice systems. I wouldn't want to be judged just because I'm part of that system though. Plenty of individual officers have disagreements with those systems too. When people start collecting lists of bad things police officers have done across the country, that seems to me to be going into that direction of judging everyone by the actions of these other people. We wouldn't do that for most other professions, even though we could make similar lists involving them.