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There are no good cops.
Hard disagree. My wife was stopped due to expired registration on our car - My fault, long story. The cop gave her a fix it ticket. Nothing else happened. They're a good cop, or at least they were in that moment.
You know what would have happened if they were a bad cop in that moment? She would have been deported for having brown skin.
Good cops don't make headlines, but they exist, and I'm grateful for the good ones we've encountered.
That being said, bad cops can fuck right off.
Bad cops, even the worst of the worst, do a normal job 99% of the time. It's the other 1 % of their actions that have such a negative impact.
"Good" cops become automatically bad just by failing to police their own. One single openly bad cop is enough to make ALL of them bad. They have way too much power to be allowed one single abuse, let alone a systematic persecution of poor people.
They always say "we have a few bad apples" and never acknowledge the complete expression "bad apples" comes from, which is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch". I think the full expression makes the analogy correct.
My dude, that cop did the bare minimum of their job. I don't believe that should be your definition of 'good'.
Bare minimum would have been not pulling her over in the first place, or giving a warning. I've encountered cops in the past that ticketed me for things that I found out later I should not have been ticketed for, and they were dicks while they did it.
This wasn't the bare minimum, and they didn't abuse their power. Definitely wasn't a "bad cop".
But by virtue of being a cop, was a bastard.
There are no good cops.
There are outright bad cops, and there are cops that are somewhat competent at following procedure -- but that doesn't make them good cops. A lot of the time it's the doing of the job itself that makes them bad cops.