Hi conscientious police officers,

Your colleagues who abuse the use of force and are more interested in their own power than the peace of their communities, they're hiding behind you. And the unions are protecting them. And I'm sorry to say, that makes the rest of you enablers.

And I have to say, the logic of affirming the goodness of the majority of your profession is starting not to make sense. Why should we be obligated to constantly validate the goodness of the majority, when the bad cops cause so much pain? And the blue wall protects them.

The issue isn't the goodness of the good cops. That's not our problem. The problem is the how bad cops perpetuate America's original sin of the control of black people's lives. We've seen how resistant your collective profession is to dealing with this. So it's on you, good cops

Sure, we can stipulate that most of you are good guys. But how does that help stop the killing of black Americans? You must know how little accountability there's been -- how solidarity is deployed for the bad cops' benefit. Can you see how useless it feels to keep stroking you?

This is the danger of valorization: it's an obstacle to accountability.

So my conscientous law enforcement brothers and sisters, you might reconsider if you really want to be held up as moral superiors. (Which is what valorization is.) Because it helps the bad cops even more

Baldwin told us again and again and again: white supremacy is a cancer on white people's own humanity. I'm saying is there's a cost to the good cop's humanity to ask to be seen as above reproach. Which if we're honest, is how the valorization of cops all these years really works

Blue lives should stop taking black lives.