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Vindris_SNH posted...

The point was that the media can negatively effect your opinion of cops, because you rarely hear about anything they do unless they're doing it wrong. I'm addressing one specific poster who made a negative generalization about cops. I don't know why you people are blowing this up.

If we heard about McDonalds workers spitting in burgers on the news each and every day we'd be justified in having negative opinions about McDonalds workers and never going there. But no - we hear about it once in a blue moon, and the perpetrator is always *IMMEDIATELY* fired. No paid vacation followed by a promotion, they're simply out of a job. Cops can easily fix their PR problems by not killing, robbing, brutalizing or holding people at gunpoint, and actually getting punished if they do so.

Can't think of a single day in the past year or two where there wasn't a story about a cop abusing their power. They kill over a thousand people a year.