Sources for CNN say the FBI briefly opened a civil rights investigation into Jonathan Ross, the officer who shot and killed Renee Good earlier this month.
What you say is something that many people say, and certainly there’s an element of truth to it. It’s not like you’re lying to us about what you’ve observed.
But at the same time, here’s a very important question. Has your friend at the FBI ever arrested and gotten another FBI agent convicted for the crimes that they have surely witnessed occurring? Obviously this depends on their exact position, but ask this to any police officer friend that you have. When is the last time that they pulled over another cop and wrote them a ticket for a moving traffic violation? When is the last time they wrote themselves a ticket for a moving traffic violation? The answer is probably going to be never.
Of course it’s possible you can find that 0.001%. They probably do exist somewhere, especially if it’s a very small police department or FBI Branch office. But let’s just play the odds, and everyone who thinks they have an LEO friend who’s honest, probably most of them are wrong. What they probably actually have is a friend who usually obeys the law themself but does not force their co-workers to obey it.
She’s a family member on my husband’s side. I don’t know what she’s done. She doesn’t talk details about her work. But, knowing her, she wouldn’t let someone get away with a felony just because she knows them. She’s not a police officer. She’s super smart, kinda nerdy, introverted, and very progressive. She’s horrified by the same things we’re horrified by, with the Trump administration, and she despises the current FBI leadership.
I think a lot of y’all have bought into the ACAB narrative a little too hard. Like, yes, are a lot of them bad? Absolutely. I was beaten by a group of cops when I was 18. I’m no stranger to that. But also, there are people that staff internal investigations offices and federal agents that only go after actual murderers. They’re not all corrupt street cops.
Everything exists on a spectrum. Given their training and mostly free reign to do crimes themselves, yeah, a lot of street cops are corrupt to some degree. But, I think FBI agents are held, and hold themselves, to a different standard and, they have a much higher level of training/vetting. It makes sense (to me) that they’re less corrupt.
It’s silly to demonize the organization, as a whole, because of their politically appointed leaders and because street cops generally suck. Is it really so hard to believe that some people at the highest levels of law enforcement actually want to uphold the law? I don’t think things are as cartoonishly black and white as you make them out to be.
What you say is something that many people say, and certainly there’s an element of truth to it. It’s not like you’re lying to us about what you’ve observed.
But at the same time, here’s a very important question. Has your friend at the FBI ever arrested and gotten another FBI agent convicted for the crimes that they have surely witnessed occurring? Obviously this depends on their exact position, but ask this to any police officer friend that you have. When is the last time that they pulled over another cop and wrote them a ticket for a moving traffic violation? When is the last time they wrote themselves a ticket for a moving traffic violation? The answer is probably going to be never.
Of course it’s possible you can find that 0.001%. They probably do exist somewhere, especially if it’s a very small police department or FBI Branch office. But let’s just play the odds, and everyone who thinks they have an LEO friend who’s honest, probably most of them are wrong. What they probably actually have is a friend who usually obeys the law themself but does not force their co-workers to obey it.
She’s a family member on my husband’s side. I don’t know what she’s done. She doesn’t talk details about her work. But, knowing her, she wouldn’t let someone get away with a felony just because she knows them. She’s not a police officer. She’s super smart, kinda nerdy, introverted, and very progressive. She’s horrified by the same things we’re horrified by, with the Trump administration, and she despises the current FBI leadership.
I think a lot of y’all have bought into the ACAB narrative a little too hard. Like, yes, are a lot of them bad? Absolutely. I was beaten by a group of cops when I was 18. I’m no stranger to that. But also, there are people that staff internal investigations offices and federal agents that only go after actual murderers. They’re not all corrupt street cops.
Everything exists on a spectrum. Given their training and mostly free reign to do crimes themselves, yeah, a lot of street cops are corrupt to some degree. But, I think FBI agents are held, and hold themselves, to a different standard and, they have a much higher level of training/vetting. It makes sense (to me) that they’re less corrupt.
It’s silly to demonize the organization, as a whole, because of their politically appointed leaders and because street cops generally suck. Is it really so hard to believe that some people at the highest levels of law enforcement actually want to uphold the law? I don’t think things are as cartoonishly black and white as you make them out to be.