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Re:America Has a Black-Market Problem, Not a Drug Problem by gamblor956 on Monday March 17, 2014 @09:55PM (#7419505)
The proportion of bad cops to good cops is probably about the same as the proportion of pervert sexist programmers who like to sexually harass their female coworkers to non-perverted programmers. If your only exposure to either profession is what you see online, you'll have a dim view of both professions.

It's true that there is a large number of bad cops--but that's simply because there are a lot cops. Most cops hold themselves to a higher standard, but never show up in the news because it's not newsworthy when a cop does his job.

Re:America Has a Black-Market Problem, Not a Drug Problem by spacehome on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:27AM (#7420471)
Sorry, but I don't think this is even remotely true. Cops overwhelmingly don't testify against other cops. And, in my book, cops that put up the blue wall of silence are bad cops. Not as bad as the cop they're defending -- I don't mean to equate them -- but still bad.

While something like that may exist in some engineering-heavy workplaces (I've heard stories but never seen it), it's nowhere near as common or institutionalized.

Re:America Has a Black-Market Problem, Not a Drug Problem by speeder on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:32PM (#7419665)
The problem is a bad cop can cause much more damage...

Bad programmers don't have weapons and authority to kidnap people legally.