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Don't know how you can do that and not feel complicit.
Maybe by feeling that it's better for good and honourable people to change the culture from the inside?
Needs reform innit.
More a culture change, I'd say. The thing that most changed British policing in my lifetime was the Lawrence report, and the willingness of some members of the force to accept its findings. I appreciate that the position in the US is very different, and I have no personal experience of US law enforcement, but while I reject the 'few bad apples' argument, I'm open to the suggestion that there might be a few good ones.
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change the culture from the inside?
Naïve IMO, might be a one person difference, not that scale needed
Lawrence report has not made much of a difference IMO. Mine and my friends and my familys experience with the filth here is disgusting. Beating, killing. It might appear to be far removed from US policing but from here, doesn't feel a whole lot different. I've been pinned down unnessecerily, forcefully, completely unwarranted, on more than a dozen occasions. And friends have lost a lot more than that. My experience is almost always of agressive bullying, belittling, regular racist remarks and even remembering those instances makes me so angry.
I've never been a criminal, but I grew up like one.
psg1ben
You have to ignore a LOT of obvious bullshit to be a recruit. Don't know how you can do that and not feel complicit. Needs reform innit.
Anywho, talking about cops is gonna ruin my sleep.