Abused by the Badge: Hundreds of law enforcement officers have been accused of sexually abusing children over the past two decades, a Washington Post investigation found

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Ughhh when will something be done about the police problem in this country!?!? This is a self selected group of people who take on a position of authority with virtually no oversight or consequences to blatantly illegal behaviors, this study just confirms what we have all known. Abusers choose positions that provide access to populations to abuse, and policing specifically, empowers and protects the abusers. ACAB

First of all, the entire (not inconsiderable) resources of police unions tend to get mobilized to campaign against politicians advocating for police reform.

Second, you might be surprised how often such politicians either turn out to have been criminals themselves (and conveniently finally get arrested just before the election), or suffer mysterious accidents (that never get investigated).

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