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But medical malpractice is a thing, with personal consequences to the doctor. They might have insurance, and maybe it can be hard to prove wrongdoing, but there absolutely is "repercussions for bad actors" with respect to medicine. With police the problem is that they might not even get fired, and any judgements against them tend to at best get paid by taxpayers: there is no incentive to not be horrible.

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> With police the problem is that they might not even get fired, and any judgements against them tend to at best get paid by taxpayers: there is no incentive to not be horrible.

That's the problem. I don't think demonizing the other 99.9% of officers is the solution.

There was sufficient evidence for any police officer in Minneapolis to arrest Derek Chauvin, and yet they protected him instead. They all chose to be complicit in his crime.

Various forces have little internal secret rituals in which they all collude in murder. Above we have https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge... ; there's another example from NYPD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23525224

Doctors very rarely turn out politically to defend the malpractice of other doctors.

Yes and all three of the other officers are facing various charges. That's how the legal system works.

It's still unclear to me how a small town officer, hundreds of miles away, is guilty for the crimes of people he has nothing to do with.

> all three of the other officers are facing various charges

None of them would have faced charges without months of national protests! That's why there's a problem! And I don't just mean the others that were there, all eight hundred Minneapolis PD officers are to some extent complicit.

Where did I say that people shouldn't protest things?

Protests are great. Let's protest more and get changes made. But protesting against police injustice doesn't mean demonizing the entire profession.

Could you provide the source indicating that only 0.1% of cops are bad and the remaining 99.9% are good?

Meanwhile a reality check for you: https://twitter.com/ProfessorPenis/status/140430555390457036...

"the cops showed up with bear mace and rubber bullets for the protesters. THE PEOPLE administered aid. THE PEOPLE apprehended the driver. the cops did nothing but antagonize the crowd of people that were almost murdered."

Well that is a strawman if I ever heard one. Protesting for police accountability != demonizing the police

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