Social Isn’t Police Corruption relatively less than other industries?

[ElKarlo]

You have to take into account the societal effects of police being corrupt vs teachers being corrupt. The greater the real or possible damage to individuals and society as a whole, the more dangerous.

A corrupt teacher will make you lose your grades and that sucks, but a corrupt cop will get you killed or put in prison for a very long time.

Worse even. Corrupt police can lead to a break down in society. As law and order are lower on the need order. Education while nice, isn't as important as people being able to live in safety

 

[HeffDoesWant]

It would be pretty strongly correlated to your ability to profit.

 

[WhiteMousse]

White supremacy is less prevalent than Jihadism but nobody cares about that do they?

People aren't interested in corporate corruption because it's not something that hits all the right spots in their brain. It doesn't infuriate them because they don't understand why it hurts them.

It is however easy for them to understand when they're being treated unfairly, and physically hurt or restrained by authority figures.

Corporate corruption is about evading taxes and SOX, and buying laws that hurt the low and mid income ranges. It affects people tremendously more than police corruption but nobody cares about that because it's not flashy.

 

[RoosterHucklebuck]

Incompetence in the medical field kills 10's of 1,000's of people a year. In the mid 80's my mother was giving birth to my youngest brother and she got spinal meningitis when she was given an epidural due to the anesthesiologist injecting her multiple times. My mother was in a coma for over a week and was expected to die. A priest had even given her last rites. She somehow pulled through and survived. for over 30 years she has been suffering the after effects of the meningitis. When my parents tried to sue the hospital, they had to drop the case because the hospital was counter-suing my parents for slander over them bringing a case against the anesthesiologist.

I am sure there are 1000's of cases like this a year, but yes, let's continue talking about how badly the cops are treating the criminals and some cops doing things they shouldn't be doing.

 

[JamesRussler]

LOL

 

[panamaican]

I work as a mortgage advisor in Canada in the sub-Prime lending department.

And we have to fudge numbers on at least 20-30 percent of our applications in order to hit targets.

It’s just a part of the business.

Think of teachers, lawyers, accountants.

People in every single industry do shifty practices.

If anything like 10-20 percent of cops were outright corrupt it would show that the police are one of the most ethical industries in North America, no?

Uhm...maybe your organization is significantly more corrupt than other mortgage advisers.

It's kind of weird to extrapolate out to other industries based on your experience within your organization.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

given that we have cameras, bodycams, cell phones everywhere, etc...

I struggle to think how cops treated people in like say 1958?

Once cops stopped actually patrolling beats, and became revenue earners by writing tickets they completely lost the trust of most people. Period.

It's why firemen are still loved by most people (or at least you don't dislike them), b/c all they do is help people. Not write you a ticket instead of putting out fires.

 

[Canned Tuna]

I'd rather have my kid come in contact with a corrupt teacher than a corrupt cop. At least you can protect against the teacher or take your kid out of the school altogether. Can't take em out of jail.

Sure. I'm not saying corrupt cops aren't a serious problem, just that a corrupt education system can be just as bad or worse for society as a whole.

 

[zebby23]

Due to the level of responsibility and power given to police the even low levels of corrupt cops is unacceptable

This.

Corruption in plumbing leads to leaks and bills maybe not being paid or fudging numbers to inflate your bottom line.

Corruption in sports leads to throwing games

Corruption in police means dead people.

Huge difference

 

[Damien Karras]

I work as a mortgage advisor in Canada in the sub-Prime lending department.

And we have to fudge numbers on at least 20-30 percent of our applications in order to hit targets.

It’s just a part of the business.

Think of teachers, lawyers, accountants.

People in every single industry do shifty practices.

If anything like 10-20 percent of cops were outright corrupt it would show that the police are one of the most ethical industries in North America, no?

A former colleague got fired because he fudged his income on his mortgage application and used his boss as a reference. Only he never gave his boss a heads up and the boss got called.

fucking lulz

 

[Damien Karras]

This guy is my hero

"Tata and farewell.."

 

[sakfjgadsyukgf]

I work as a mortgage advisor in Canada in the sub-Prime lending department.

And we have to fudge numbers on at least 20-30 percent of our applications in order to hit targets.

It’s just a part of the business.

Did..... did you teleport from the year 2006 to write this comment? If not- as someone else above me said- brb, gonna go short some Canadian banks....

 

[PlayswellwithLawnDarts]

I think if we just hang tight and realize we are spirits in the material world everything probably works out fine.