if it was just "a few bad apples", you'd expect that every time a story breaks about police violence, we'd be deluged by counter-anecdotes where everyone who has had their life changed for the better by interacting with the police comes forward to challenge the narrative

but uhh https://twitter.com/nicolebyer/status/1381507240448847876

almost seems like even people who defend the existence of policing basically grant the premise that there are more bad incidents than good incidents at this point

I feel like I only hear people defend the police in conceptual abstractions

like when they say "well, who will you call if you're ever sexually assaulted then????", and not "when I was sexually assaulted the police caught the person and were kind and helpful and supported me"

I have been robbed three times and the police were, at best, politely useless

nothing was ever recovered, it was clear from minute one that I was barely a priority, we all sort of acknowledged like "this is a formality and we all know it will go nowhere"

it just feels increasingly surreal that people advocating for police abolition have a massive, ever-growing list of SPECIFIC INCIDENTS to point to in like every precinct across the US, and yet we almost never see police defenders present specifics - even anecdotal! - at all

obviously this is not like. a unique and novel realization. it's just the current thought spiraling in my brain that i can't get past

"Two studies have found that at least 40 percent of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10 percent of families in the general population."
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/

you're not making the point you think you're making here https://twitter.com/LeftPov/status/1381511235636617221?s=20

also, my point was the lack of SPECIFIC incidents where someone can say "here is an example of a way my life was improved by the intervention of law enforcement"

just saying "here is an example of a type of crime" is not a counterargument

cannot believe a man read this thread and then literally came into my mentions to make this exact argument https://twitter.com/clairewillett/status/1381510430464430080?s=20