Current Events > Reminder that if a cop looks the other way to corruption, they are a bad cop.

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If a cop has always been patient and had restraint, never used excessive force, and often did good in the community, they can be a good cop. But if another cop is fired for murdering an innocent man across town, but is acquitted and rehired at the precinct of the former, that can change things. If that first cop learns of what happens, but fails to protest the hiring, choosing to ignore it, he can no longer be considered a good cop, not by any reasonable standard. Looking the other way to blatant corruption around them, regardless of any personal risk to their careers, is actively supporting corruption in the system. Actively supporting corruption in the system completely outweighs any potential good they do, making them a bad cop (not inherently a bad person, but unquestionably a bad cop).

This also makes in nearly impossible to be a member of the NYPD or BPD and still a good cop.

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This mentality is flawed.

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I thought this was going to be about stopping the other guy from doing bad things, or reporting his wrongdoing to superiors. I was going to agree with you. But once the other guy is fired, what can they do about the rehiring?
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Man we dont give a fuck about what youre parroting, tc.

Like cops are the only ones who have conflicts of interest telling on coworkers? They have more responsibility, no shit, its not as one dimensional as you make it though. Youre demanding every cop prepare to sacrifice their livelihood for your idea of virtue in an extremely immoral time period, while you also have zero understanding what its like actually being a cop in a dangerous city. They arent the knights of the round table for fucks sake, and criminals have no rules.

Thank god all the GOOD cops in NYPD that have saved lives and kept peace over the years dont have to see your basic opinion.

Keith_Valentine posted...

Like cops are the only ones who have conflicts of interest telling on coworkers?

Irrelevant. Because of the authority cops possess, they must be held to a significantly higher standard than everyone else. Instead, they are held to a significantly lower standard than everyone else, which is pure evil.

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if a cop:
-evicts someone from their home
-enforces "no loitering" signs
-arrests someone for drug possession
-enforces any other unjust law

they are a bad cop

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Laserion posted...

I thought this was going to be about stopping the other guy from doing bad things, or reporting his wrongdoing to superiors. I was going to agree with you. But once the other guy is fired, what can they do about the rehiring?

This. If those other guys are replaced, this becomes a non factor. If it's a guy that will be infinitely more happier when surrounded by good moral like minded others, why would I want to take that away from them. For all I know, they were fighting the good fight from the inside in little ways no one would know about.

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Laserion posted...

I thought this was going to be about stopping the other guy from doing bad things, or reporting his wrongdoing to superiors. I was going to agree with you. But once the other guy is fired, what can they do about the rehiring?

They can (and must, if they want to be a good cop) discourage their boss from hiring the person on. Do not accept the evil person back as a brother.

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Good people that do bad things are bad people

If you want to argue that it is not always practical to do the right thing, then that just means that there are no good people, not that bad is good if it isn't the worst.

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Today i learned that cops should have a perfect moral and no tolerance will be given for cops who have gray area in the morale aspect

DarkChozoGhost posted...

They can (and must, if they want to be a good cop) discourage their boss from hiring the person on. Do not accept the evil person back as a brother.

Yeah and fuck up their career in the process. Great idea.

You dont shit where you eat.

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AntiNoob posted...

Today i learned that cops should have a perfect moral and no tolerance will be given for cops who have gray area in the morale aspect

Never said that. But looking the other way at a coworker being a literal murder that got away with it is not a gray area by any stretch of the imagination.

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Yeah and fuck up their career in the process. Great idea.

You dont shit where you eat.

The system is evil, yes. It shouldn't fuck up their career, and if less of them would look the other way and be bad cops, maybe it wouldn't.

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Weird how everyone apparently knows bad people in jobs are a problem, yet apparently the numbers and support still aren't there to fight the corruption without destroying good people's careers while the corruption persists. Sounds like either most people aren't aware or that most people are shitty and don't care.

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I believe we should all hold our peers accountable if they do something wrong or bad as human beings. Cops are held to the highest standards in our society so they have to strongly believe this as well. If they don't then they shouldn't be cops.

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

They can (and must, if they want to be a good cop) discourage their boss from hiring the person on. Do not accept the evil person back as a brother.

Wait. They get rehired in the same department too? I thought they had to go to the next town over.
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Veggeta X posted...

Cops are held to the highest standards in our society

No, they should be. But they're actually held to some of the lowest of standards

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

Irrelevant. Because of the authority cops possess, they must be held to a significantly higher standard than everyone else. Instead, they are held to a significantly lower standard than everyone else, which is pure evil.

You think cops are more evil than the criminals they arrest?

Cops are held to a much higher standard than most people. Do the politicians that write the laws have to wear bodycams? No, cops have to go out and pay for their mistakes.

Keith_Valentine posted...

You think cops are more evil than the criminals they arrest?

Don't make crap up.

Keith_Valentine posted...

Cops are held to a much higher standard than most people

That's bullshit, and you know it.

Police are extremely rarely actually punished when they do evil things

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