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A man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction was shot and killed Monday by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities and representatives said.

Leonard Allen Cure, 53, was identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting.

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[–] foggy 139 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And the alleged 'good cops' are out here confused why no one respects them.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the alleged ‘good cops’ are out here confused why no one respects them.

Until I start running across evidence that some police are angrier about the bad cops than they are about everyone else being angry about the bad cops, I refuse to believe they exist.

[–] chase_what_matters 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As someone who knew an actual good cop (grew up with him): They quit. That’s what he did. That’s all they can do. Because speaking up just ruins your career path. So they choose to go along or they change careers entirely.

[–] Cryophilia 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We had a "good cop" DA in my city. The cops went on strike (though they didn't call it a strike, they just stopped doing their jobs), and started a propaganda campaign. When crime went up, people are stupid and blamed the DA. He got recalled and a police bootlicker got put in instead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'll bet the crime rate didn't even go up, it's a really easy number to fabricate because no one's looking for the evidence to back it up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We had a good DA in my city, he ended up getting killed by some billionaire vigilante who went after the police commissioners family

[–] Cryophilia 3 points 1 year ago

Man, I don't know why everyone in that city is so serious

[–] foggy 35 points 1 year ago

I'm still tickled that they have chose the idiom "a few bad apples" to describe the situation.

Like... Y'all aware the full idiom is "A few bad apples spoils the whole bunch."?

[–] rishado 16 points 1 year ago

Good cops don't exist lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

paying their union dues, which keep going up because the defense of their fellow cop's actions are expensive... if they get caught and lose qualified immunity.