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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
I discussed one single case, yet as I said, there are numerous others in the past year alone. Those all did not involve the same police officers as you are trying to suggest. So your argument that it only includes a small percentage of the force is incorrect and you are trying to rewrite my argument. In every case, the social circle around the bad cop steps to his defense and they are a different circle of cops in each incident. At what point do you start to realize that this is a pervasive problem throughout the entire force when several random circles of bad officers all act the same way to protect their own when they are obviously guilty of violent crimes?
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It sounds to me like you answer your own question. It is his social circle that steps forward. a cop fucks up and his friends step up to defend him. A different cop fucks up and his friends step up to defend him. It has less to do with all cops being bad and more to do with them wanting to help a friend or someone they feel is being wronged. Sometimes people are blinded by loyalty and friendship. It doesn't make it it right, but it happens every day.
Don't get me wrong. I am not saying every cop is good. There are bad cops. I understand that. But in my experience most of them are not bad cops. Most of them go to work, do their job and go home. they aren't dirty, they aren't criminals, but we don't hear about them.
Again there are 15,000 cops in Chicago. Even if 1,500 of them are dirty, that means 90% of them are not.
I can give you a bunch of examples of various people in this business screwing people over and stealing money/content etc. Does that mean that everyone in this business is a thief and a scumbag?