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My views on policing were influenced by my experience dating cops in Vegas in my 20& #39;s. My friend worked at the LVMPD and I met one of them at the bar where they hung out. Another happened to move in next door to me. I met the third met through work. Three in total.
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Each of them talked about the violence of the Las Vegas police department.
The worst, a street cop who was forced out of the LVMPD several years later, told me that he liked being a cop because he got to beat up people and he got paid for it.
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The worst, a street cop who was forced out of the LVMPD several years later, told me that he liked being a cop because he got to beat up people and he got paid for it.
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Another, a detective at the time, told me that he liked the fact that when he was having a bad day or just was in a bad mood, he could go take his frustrations out on people on the street.
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The third told me that if he was out and somebody gave him a hard time, he& #39;d call in to the station and a couple of officers would come to rough up whoever had the attitude.
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Those lessons have stuck with me. I view the police brutality that we see all too often in America& #39;s streets -- and in people& #39;s homes -- with the understanding that cops are people. There are good cops and bad cops.
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There are racist cops and cops who just want power. And like everyone else in the world,most cops respond to the culture of their workplace. If the workplace is broken-if the police department has a culture of corruption or violence-all too often the cops will be broken too.
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We decide who will lead our police department. It& #39;s up to us to speak out when our police department is broken and to show up when it& #39;s time to vote them out of office.
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Those of us with privilege -- whose skin color has protected us from the kind of prosecution and suspicion that people of color experience on a daily basis -- helped to build a system that is, at its core, unequal and unfair.
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We helped to build a system that treats people differently based on the color of their skin.
People of color have been fighting for their lives for too long. It& #39;s our turn to stand with our Black and Brown brothers and sisters and
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People of color have been fighting for their lives for too long. It& #39;s our turn to stand with our Black and Brown brothers and sisters and
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demand that our police departments treat them with the humanity that they deserve. And if the police department won& #39;t fix itself,we owe it to our neighbors and friends and colleagues who suffer under that system to fight to change it.
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