"I work with LEOs"
"I know most LEOs would do better."
"I'm friends with LEO."
First off, those are red flags for all marginalized folks who have had human rights violated by cops.
Secondly, there's very little proof that most cops would do better, when given many opportunities to do so.
STFU with #copaganda crap.
Even if 'most cops would do better', the fact of the matter is that the institution as a whole closes ranks around, rallies and supports, and ultimately rewards those police officers who commit harm. If we are to believe that most cops are 'better' than the 'bad apples', then they should be the ones pushing to eject the malefactors.
But they're not. They never are. And that as much as anything speaks to the general 'goodness' -- or more properly, the lack thereof -- of the police, both on an individual level and institutionally.
Ms. Que Banh
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊