[chrisco255]

No in the U.S. a handful out of a million cops are bad apples. Some legitimately find themselves in difficult-to-interpret life-or-death snap decisions on a daily or weekly basis and they get paid 1/4 or less of what some privileged engineer on HN does. And then a few bad apples plus a few legitimate accidents are over-analyzed as some proof of systemic racism in one of the most diverse countries on earth.

Meanwhile, you want to talk about abuse of minority rights, take a look at China's treatment of its muslim population:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-m... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighur-m...

[s4vi0r]

ACAB.

The entire police system is inherently corrupt and racist and needs to be torn down. Also, regardless of whether or not its a few bad apples (hint: given how extremely fucking common these problems are, it absolutely is not just a few) the point still stands that the "not bad" cops are still guilty of supporting their coworkers and enabling their unacceptable behavior.

[chrisco255]

No it's not. You have no idea how to build a better criminal justice system. Your armchair HN comment about it is absolutely worthless. It lacks insight, research, balance, and depth of any kind, not to mention practical experience in the system itself. You want to remake a complex system? Go and learn the pros and cons of it, spend a few years in it, then come back and tell people how it can be improved.

[dragonwriter]

> No in the U.S. a handful out of a million cops are bad apples

“One bad apple spoils the whole bunch”.

It may be a small number are directly-acting abusers of minorities.

A much larger number, however, are active defenders of that small number against any accountability.

[chrisco255]

How so? Look at all the body cam and dash cam legislation.