Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com

4 days ago

I have friends that are cops too. Seriously, I do!

Here's why they all get lumped in together: when a cop that is a "good person," watches a cop that is a "bad person," abuse you, or lie about you under oath, or shoot you, the cop that is a "good person," almost never even says anything about it.🤷🏿‍♂️

altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social

4 days ago

My father was a career cop, he became a sheriff. I have a lot of friends who became cops. There are a lot of good people who do the job and they care about people. Cops get lumped into one bucket by many people, even though they're not all the same. ICE is further damaging them all and hurting LEOs.

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Martin Hertz @martinhertz.com
4 days ago

When people try to diminish systemic problems by saying it's just "a few bad apples," I always ask, "So, the good apples were just sitting around and cool with what the bad apples were doing?"

Good apples have agency!

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Craig Danz @craigdanz.bsky.social
4 days ago

All dues paying members of police unions that will not hesitate to defend even the most egregious actions of the shittiest cops.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com
4 days ago

And the rare good one that does speak out often finds their career and life threatened.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com
4 days ago

The problems with US policing are systemic. Consider 2 choices:

A) Magically make all cops become not-racist, and good people, but keep the system of US policing the same.

B) Allow racists and other "bad people" to still be cops, but change the system so that they can't harm without accountability

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Garlik of York @garlik-of-york.bsky.social
4 days ago

"Good people" who become cops very quickly either succumb to the peer pressure and become the same as the "bad people", or they're targeted and pushed out.

Groups of people doing horrible things don't tolerate members who block their actions or report them.

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