Some of the logic is that bad police behavior is widespread enough that every "good" cop works closely enough with at least one "bad" cop, and yet via observation of outcomes, does not correct that bad cop's behavior (or doesn't correct it enough). They're thus complicit AKA bad cops themselves, and thus there are _no_ good police - everyone is sufficiently tainted.
The Godwin's Law version of this logic at work elsewhere is the German saying "if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."
The folk wisdom encoding "a few bad apples spoil the bunch". Doesn't matter if they were good apples going in, they're all bad apples now: the bunch is spoiled.
(Not expressing an opinion on the correctness of this thinking, just explaining what I know of it)
Another way to look at this... not every natzi personally committed crimes. I would suspect that far less than 50% personally murdered anyone. But they were part of an organization that murdered millions, and did nothing to stop it. That makes them complicit.
There are 700000 cops in America. I can name maybe 200. I've personally worked with maybe 50. I investigated 1, and could find no evidence of crime, though he realistically was likely committing some.
Out of 700000 cops I guarantee some are the scum of the earth who should be locked away forever. I don't know where they are. I can't effect that
It's like getting mad at the manager or an applebee's in Chicago because the waiter spit in your food at an olive garden in Seattle.
What was your process for investigation? Given that process, what crimes, if any, would you have found in the cases of, say, George Floyd or Breona Taylor?
Some of the logic is that bad police behavior is widespread enough that every "good" cop works closely enough with at least one "bad" cop, and yet via observation of outcomes, does not correct that bad cop's behavior (or doesn't correct it enough). They're thus complicit AKA bad cops themselves, and thus there are _no_ good police - everyone is sufficiently tainted.
The Godwin's Law version of this logic at work elsewhere is the German saying "if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."
The folk wisdom encoding "a few bad apples spoil the bunch". Doesn't matter if they were good apples going in, they're all bad apples now: the bunch is spoiled.
(Not expressing an opinion on the correctness of this thinking, just explaining what I know of it)