One of my friends from high school has considered becoming a cop because criminology is easy. He was always a little chuddy but more because he wasn't that bright and came from a poor background. He was usually well intentioned.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, actual academic research done on the Blue Wall of Silence showed that most cops started with good intentions. If you are a good intentioned cop, you try to stop someone from being a cop and are then stopped by the rest of the cops, you have three choices:

      1. Quit, and then give up the pretty well paying job (many of these people didn't go to college, remember)

      2. Just go along with it, be one of the "good cops" who lets the bad cops go along with what they want.

      3. Go Dorner (which is... not something most people would want to do.)

      The problem is in the system. It won't be fixed by individuals or "high IQ" cops said elsewhere here.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      3 years ago

      it's hard to really think about this because it makes me think about what I might have become if I hadn't been exposed to leftist ideas.