Reply #111: So, only 1% of police aren't thugs? [View All]

[Kerrytravelers]

I'm sad to be reading this on DU.


I was making no attempt to budge you, but I certainly want to voice a counter opinion. Painting all cops with such a broad brush isn't representative of all of us (I know, you were only speaking for yourself.) And, for the record, I think that what happened at UCLA is disgusting. But the action of a few do not represent the whole. I'm a teacher. The actions of some teachers who seduce (more like molest and rape) their students or attack them physically or make racist slurs doesn't mean that I am that way, approve of such behavior, or find them representative of the profession as a whole.

We have some close family friends who are police. Events like the one at UCLA make them cringe. These officers certainly are not representative of the police we know.