Colin Kaepernick: “You can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist,.. That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.”

I will concede to your argument about the term argument applying to my difference of opinion and the reasoning of said differences.

I was saying that I wasn't "arguing" about anything because I don't usually use the term in the context you meant.

OP's opinion, and yours as well, is that all cops are lazy. I disagree with that opinion. Sure some cops are lazy, but lumping every member of a group together for the faults of some members is just stereotyping. Which allows you to dehumanize people sets an "us vs them" mentality.

From this point TL;DR-humans love to hate "the other"

Some law enforcement agencies have developed this us vs them mentality and they train their new officers in an environment of fear, because they feel everyone else may be out to get them. And some groups and members of general society feel the police specifically target and are out to get them.

So we've ended up in a cycle of violence that keeps perpetuating itself because both sides can point to incidents that make their beliefs feel vindicated. I'm not saying all cops are ok people by any means. There are plenty of examples of cops that are terrible human beings and sometimes criminals themselves. But there are a lot that genuinely like to help people, and aren't out to just make arrests, write tickets, or

No one wins.

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