If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.
We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.
In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'
I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.
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