Debunking the Myth of the Hero Cop

[MuslimAgorist]

I realize this will not be a popular position, but I think there's something to this article.

Debunking the Myth of the Hero Cop

The part that really got me was at the end of the article:

Why don’t the good cops who are supposedly the super-majority, ever do anything about these “bad apples”

Much of the police misconduct I've seen in recent years seems to face no push back until it reaches the media, which means the good cops on the force are not checking their brothers in blue. Consider for example the 14 hour involuntary rectal exam that guy got in New Mexico after a routine traffic stop. That wasn't one bad cop. That was the cop, his partner, his department, the judge that issued the warrent, and the doctors who participated.

What the heck are we supposed to do if corruption is not an anomaly, but a feature?

 

[Katzndogz]

It is worth speculation whether or not the man subjected to such a humiliating exam5 would have gotten such a humiliating exam if he has not been known to hide drugs in his rectum. He had a long history of doing just that. If he had not been a white guy in a hispanic neighborhood, would it have happened?

 

[DGS49]

The proper rational, historical definition of a "hero" is one who either risks or sacrifices his own wellbeing for the benefit of another person.

The ultimate "hero" (assuming you buy the party line) was Jesus Christ. He willingly gave his life, endured unimaginable torture, humiliation, and so forth, for the benefit of humanity.

The contemporary archtype of the "hero" is the soldier who throws himself on a grenade, or runs into the path of fire, or otherwise exposes himself to serious injury or death, in order to protect or safeguard his comrades in arms.

Whether you like it, accept it, realize it, or not, EVERY police officer is a hero (as is EVERY fire fighter).

Police officers willingly go into neighborhoods and circumstances where they KNOW their lives are in danger, in order to stop a violent episode, investigate a report of violence, and on and on. Often, the people they are going in to protect are themselves criminals, who in one rare instance are the victims of some other badguy on this particular day. If ONLY ONE TIME during the course of a career, s/he "gives a suspect a break," and that suspect turns out to be armed and to have evil on his or her mind, HE IS DEAD!

And he goes to work every day knowing that this is a very real (if remote) possibility.

Prudent people DO NOT BECOME COPS.

Consider the countless times a police officer goes to the scene of a domestic violence report, or a report of a shooting, or the site of a fight, and the locals disrespect the police as though it were the police that were the problem - and not the ones coming in to try to resolved it.

Is it any wonder that police become cynical about human nature, and tend not to take risks with possible violent perpetrators? You would be crazy NOT to approach the job that way. One slip-up and you are dead.

There are countless examples of police acting in a way that appears to be gratuitously violent or cruel. It's a human reaction to all of the shit they are exposed to every day.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The problem is that Cops won't report fellow cops for misconduct or illegal activity and if they do all the other "good" cops will hate them just as much as the bad cops.

They have created their own little world were they actively protect corruption, illegal activity and bad decisions.

 

[whitehall]

Can you pick out the obvious propaganda? Propaganda, the difference between the truth and political agenda, should be a mandatory subject in school but alas America is behind in every category so it don't look like propaganda is on the list. Anyway the obvious propaganda was when the source cited the incidence of undisputed lawful killings by American Law-enforcement officers Nation wide and ----get ready---right after the shootings they cited the same number of mis-conduct complaints against Police officers Nation wide as if the two were connected.