Are cops on the front line of American racism?

[el_bryanto]

4. Well I agree that in order for any progress to be made

you are going to have to get it out of the local law enforcement purview - the cops have shown themselves unable to police themselves.

As for why they don't band together, i think there are two issues making that hard.

1) - They are isolated or feel isolated in their departments - and they need the job. They need to be able to trust that the cop next to them is going to have their back. If they speak out against racism, well they might not have that.

2) - there's also cultural biases playing into this - I know that my tendency on reading a story involving a cop is to assume that the cop is in the wrong - that's a gut reaction - but it probably isn't always true. There are times when the police acted correctly when all the information comes out. The flip side is that if you are a cop your bias is to believe other cops.

Bryant