This is a message I wrote to @underscore but like you he had this naive view of the USA Police. So I'll ask you.
1) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain that the police plant evidence on suspects to frame them, as with the
Ramparts division scandal or they protect drug runners ?
2) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain that the police deal in drugs
THEMSELVES. Ever heard about New York’s
infamous 75th precinct ?
3) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain the police
murdering those who file complaints against them ?
4) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain the
slaughtering innocent civilians and then covering up the crime ?
5) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain how the police enforce the
war on drugs, which has
disproportionately targeted black people, even though
according to every study and
at every age level, whites use
and deal drugs at the same or higher rates than the black people ?
6) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain that sometimes the police are told
not to enforce drug laws against white people.
7) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain that the police profile and
stop-and-frisk, harassing
almost exclusively innocent persons so as to get at the
statistical few that have actually committed a crime ?
8) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain the Police in Ferguson have
functioned for years as the enforcers of a
massive municipal shakedown scheme, in which black people were targeted for minor offences, ticketed and then fined so as to raise money for local government ?
9) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain when the riots happened in the USA last year following the killing of Michael Brown, police responded to protests by using
military equipment and tactics, sending a message that they were essentially at war with their own people !! Tactics that they are
now admitting only escalated the crisis ?10) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain that the Police
threaten to kill black folks and hide the evidence, but are allowed to keep their jobs ?
11) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain how they love posting
blatantly racist and even homicidal rants on their
social media pages or in text messages, in
town after
town across America: dozens of
such cases in the past year that we know of, including one
particularly egregious case in San Francisco, in which a group of officers exchanged messages calling African Americans “monkeys” and declaring that all blacks (whom they certainly didn’t refer to in that way) “must hang.” ?
12) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain
another case from Albuquerque where an officer who shot and killed a suspect after a traffic stop referred to his profession as “human waste disposal” on Facebook.
13) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain in some of these cases, the racist cops have also been allowed to keep their jobs or to
get them back after being fired, as recently happened in Florida.Police
beat black suspects without cause and then lie about it, or
plant evidence to cover up their misdeeds ?
14) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain how they respond to the least verbal challenge with violence, as
in the case of Eric Garner who was killed by a Staten Island cop by way of neck compression, simply for telling police to stop harassing him.
15) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain how too often they have
shot first and asked questions (or not) later, and are
far quicker to shoot
unarmed black folks than unarmed whites ?
16) If you think the police for most part are honest then how do you explain how they
shoot children like Tamir Rice, playing with a toy gun and then lie about the incident ?