Where does respecting officers that joined to truly protect and serve and appreciating the difficulty of their job and seeing they get caught up in a horrible system of unions and bad cops and wanting the whole thing tore down fall on the scale? I feel like that's where I am.
I think most reasonable people are pretty aligned with this. It’s why fixing the problem takes measures on multiple fronts. Problem is people align themselves with whatever side of the issue and point fingers and delegitimize their opposition.
Do we need to better hold offending LEO accountable? Yes.
Do we need LEO to constantly work against the threat of their own bias? Yes
Do we need to affectively reduce the level of violent crime and the situations that lead to it and subsequent adversarial encounters with LEO? Yes.
If I’m a good-hearted kitten handler and deal with all sorts of kittens, but calicos bite and scratch me more often than non-calicos I’m naturally going to develop some bias against calicos, and deal with even innocent calicos in a different manner than I do with non-calicos. This is bad for everyone; kitten handlers, non-violent calicos, and violent calicos . It’s neutral for non-violent non-calicos, but also dangerous for kitten handlers dealing with violent non-calicos.
Edit: And if I’m a kitten handler that already doesn’t like calicos going in, then it’s double bad.
