Jimmy Higgins
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Bad apples?!There are thousands, if not millions, of police interactions every day. When one bad act by some bad apples occurs, it does not mean that police or policing is bad.It just means those bad apples need to be removed. Any organization that has people is going to have bad apples.
*At local street grocer*
Timmy: Hi Mr. Tompkins.
Mr. Tompkins: Hey guys. How's it going?
Timmy: Good. Just here for some apples.
Paul: *grabs one, takes a bite*
Timmy: *pays Mr. Tompkins*
Paul: *drops dead*
Timmy: *Aghast*
Mr. Tompkins: Hey... you can't let one bad apple ruin the bunch.
Timmy: *shoulder shrug... bites apple as Mr. Tompkins pulls Paul's body back to dumpster*
Kind of a shitty system where weeding out the "bad apples" is when an incident of police violence is so bad, that it makes the news. After all, Officer Chauvin had several complaints against him, and he was on the force still. In the case of Tamir Rice, the guy was let go from another a suburb police department from lacking the "maturity" for the job. The "bad apples" either stay where they are or they get shuffled to a different bucket.