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Originally Posted by kargool
So the only thing to do if you disagree with how the police act, is to join the police?
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What I was actually trying to suggest is that often, in my experience, the people who are the most critical of a particular occupation have a pre-existing bias about the kind of person that is doing that job.
To use an example, in the US, many of the right wing consevative types lament that the education system is a bastion of liberal ideology. They are correct in many respects. However, much of their negative opinion grows out of their disdain for persons with liberal ideas. They whine about how there ought to be more conservative minded professors and teachers. However, their attitude is one which discourages more conservatives from going in to that field.
I feel that there is an over reaction on the part of most liberal individuals when there is an unfortunate outcome where the police are concerned. If the police react strongly and someone is hurt or killed, a wail goes up that the police are terrible and that it must be the fault of the police. The same individuals, when there is an event where the police react in a milder manner and it has an unfortunate outcome, will set up a wail that the police are incompetent and are terrible.
These people are going to find reasons to assail the actions of the police in almost any event.
The stated bias in the posts of ASG and Zhukov certainly represent an anti-police bias which is as reasonable as any other form of bigotry.
I was simply trying to say that those who feel the system is wrong ought to encourage people who they think would do the job better to go into that field. Suggesting that all police are idiots, etc. is not the sort of thing that is going to encourage kind and benevolent individuals to go into police work which is the only real solution for the percieved problem.