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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Good cops? I'm sure some of them were. A lot just didn't want to be held accountable but most probably just couldn't handle the stress and public backslash from decades of abuse and no reform. 

It's similar to the teacher shortage. Just keep piling more and more stress on teachers without increasing pay, training and support and you'll end up needing to lower standards just to keep the numbers stable. Everyone suffers when we underfund services
gpt
I think this was from a Jack Ryan episode. Someone asked him why he wanted to be a part of something as awful as the CIA. His response was perfect. That the job was going to be done, a d he could be a good person doing it. Or something along those lines.

As for policing, there's a reasonable/true argument that there are bad cops, and then there are cops that enable those bad cops. That even the best of cops turns a blind eye to the bad ones. While this is true, there's not much an officer can do to fix that except be one if the good ones. Mayor's are mostly trash, and they appoint trash police chiefs. DAs are mostly trash, and bad cops simply won't get persecuted. Only thing that comes from a good cop going after a bad cop is one less good cop on the force.

Anyway, I have good friends from the Marines who went on to become law enforcement of various kinds, and this is something I somewhat struggle with. So I put myself in their shoes. We need police, and someone will fill that role, so why not make the best of it.

I was really hoping we'd see some reform when BLM started, but of course liberals fucked that up. Like they fuck up everything. Oh well. Stuff to think about.