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KGxvi6/05/2020 1:23:37 pm PDT

re: #179 lawhawk

A few bad apples?

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Nope - the more you scratch at the police force, the more you see that there’s institutional rot all around. These people swore oaths to protect the public and uphold the law. But those same cops don’t want to apply the law and rules to fellow cops, and any attempt to hold cops accountable when engaging in crimes is met with this kind of stunt.

It’s important to remember when someone says “it’s just a few bad apples” that they are distorting the original saying and its meaning.

The phrase is:

One bad apple ruins the bunch

And there’s a reason for that. Rotting fruit give off a pheromone that causes similar fruit around it to also spoil. Literally one bad apple will turn the rest of the apples bad.

Same thing with people. if you have 100 cops and 1 bad cop, but the other 99 cops defend/protect the bad cop then you don’t have 99 good cops and 1 bad cop… you have 100 bad cops.