You know, I'm just going to say this here to get it off my chest. A few months ago in the west side of my city, a young girl (ten or younger) was accidentally murdered (shot through the spine and died) while walking with her mom outside a corner store. Cases like this happen all the time, and though you say it's horrible these cases don't become national news, what I find completely appealing is how witnesses always refuse to talk to police out of fear. The stupid "snitches get snitches" mentality people have in these neighborhood cultures (and that has nothing to do with race) accomplishes fucking nothing but no justice for a little girl's death months later, and what's worse is this is no way isolated.

So I find it so incredibly hypocritical that whenever a shooting happens, people get so upset that cops aren't willing to rat out other cops. You always see that assertion that "all cops are bad" and the warrant being "cops protect other cops, so therefore they're corrupt by association" like it's such an easy blanket statement to make. Now of course I don't have a source to back this, but I would guess many of these people are the same group. It just infuriates me that these neighborhoods who are so willing to generalize all cops (I even heard bloods and crips were putting aside their differences in Baltimore) do so little to bring justice to objectively innocent deaths caught in the crossfire. That's not to say both aren't an issue, we should definitely scrutinize both cases, but I'd be more willing to believe that when it comes to wanton death a cop is less likely to get away with it than a hood, and cops aren't the ones gunning down innocents in drive bys (and if you honestly believe cops are literally waking up planning to kill people maybe you got too much glue in your tinfoil hat.)

I believe we should definitely scrutinize wrongful death situations. But this blanket generalization of all cops being a problem is just wrong. If a cop covers up for another that's objectively wrong, but a cop who's unaware of corruption is "evil." Plus, not that it's right, but doing the "right thing" may get you blacklisted in the force, and my point I guess is you would think people that refuse to talk out of fear would understand this more than anyone.

Overall, it's a really bad situation. But both sides have to be realistic. People in Baltimore can't completely disassociate yourself with looters in a "no true Scotsman" fallacy just like cops can't disassociate themselves with bad cops. People have to take responsibility, and in the context of this meme maybe "condemning" and "doing" are two different types of things. Yet neither side can generalize the other as only their worst members if we want to actually fix anything. Dehumanization of an enemy is how wars are fought, not progress.