I don’t think he’s unaware of the systemic rot in policing.
Reading between the lines it sounds like he’s implying that some are resigned to it just being a job that also happens to leave very little room for cops to be people too.
Cop culture is fucking completely rancid to the core. And I’d bet more than a few know just how toxic it is. Problem is there’s nowhere for a “good cop” to go. It’s all omertà, locker room, frat boy, don’t cross the blue line mafia shit. Just ask Serpico, Adrian Schoolcraft, Michael (something) in the Baltimore police, etc.
Until there’s a way for bad cops to be rooted out there are no good cops. There are good “people” on a personal level. Which is what I think he’s saying. And that can be true in a sense. But as long as this system exists there are no good cops. Because, as the decisions made by those three attest, it’s impossible in such a corrupt and concealing system to do your job as a good cop.
Look if you have to read between the lines there's probably nothing there, someone who touts himself as a communicator and journalist should be able to make their intention plain (you were able to do it easy enough with your last paragraph)
Either he knows what the system is and is more concerned with making asinine takes like "cops are people too when they hit you" or he doesn't know about the system, pretty damning either way for someone of his "caliber"
I don’t think he’s unaware of the systemic rot in policing.
Reading between the lines it sounds like he’s implying that some are resigned to it just being a job that also happens to leave very little room for cops to be people too.
Cop culture is fucking completely rancid to the core. And I’d bet more than a few know just how toxic it is. Problem is there’s nowhere for a “good cop” to go. It’s all omertà, locker room, frat boy, don’t cross the blue line mafia shit. Just ask Serpico, Adrian Schoolcraft, Michael (something) in the Baltimore police, etc.
Until there’s a way for bad cops to be rooted out there are no good cops. There are good “people” on a personal level. Which is what I think he’s saying. And that can be true in a sense. But as long as this system exists there are no good cops. Because, as the decisions made by those three attest, it’s impossible in such a corrupt and concealing system to do your job as a good cop.
Look if you have to read between the lines there's probably nothing there, someone who touts himself as a communicator and journalist should be able to make their intention plain (you were able to do it easy enough with your last paragraph)
Either he knows what the system is and is more concerned with making asinine takes like "cops are people too when they hit you" or he doesn't know about the system, pretty damning either way for someone of his "caliber"
You can always be :dorner: