ù Quoting Tom Rightmer from a message to Rd Thompson  ù 
TR> I work in a relatively small department with 147 sworn officers. One 
TR> bad cop here can tarnish the reputation and good work of the other 
TR> 146. This is one of the primary reasons why there is a concerted 
TR> effort to prosecute, discipline, or fire this one cop, depending on 
TR> what the one officer did. It is not fair for the other 146 good cops 
Tom - listen to reason. You work in a small department with 147 cops. I will 
never deny that your department might be 100% free of any kind of insidious 
behavior. Perhaps this is largely due to your work. 
Now, consider the police in a large city, like, Detroit, or Los Angeles, 
where 
there is a huge network of precincts, all with their own career cops and 
political in-fighting, all working within the jurisdictions of an enormous 
inner city. What I'm saying is that perhaps your career experience is not 
enough on its own to judge what is going on at a national level. 
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