Reply #27: +1. the police are no longer "respectable"

[quakerboy]

Their financial situation may make them part of the 99%. But it rapidly becomes clear that police forces are not full of respectable, well intentioned people, occasionally spoiled by the unavoidable "bad apple", making them look bad.

There are those bad apples to be sure. But what you can clearly see in video after video, account after account, is every other rank and file policeman 1: not preventing violence and assault by their piers before it happens. 2: not stopping violence and assualts as they happen 3: not removing bad apples from the situation after the assaults happen 4: not arresting those who commit assaults and violence after witnessing it.

Not in a single one of the instances has any one of those things happened. Which tells me that the police are fully complicit with ANY action, no matter how wrong, that another officer may undertake. And that is flat wrong, as well as not at all respectable. You don't have to be a mob enforcer to be in the mob, but being there you do support every illegal action they may take, up to and including murder. Being a police person has become the same thing.