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Over the past year or so, there has been a lot of posts on here about horrors committed by the Police. **I'll admit, the videos and accounts that I've seen or heard have been pretty terrible, and in those cases the officers involved have often acted despicably.**

What I don't get however, is the knee-jerk reaction of many redditors who will jump on any of these stories and proclaim their disdain for police officers. I suspect most of us have never had a run-in with the cops. 

It seems that people are making generalizations about the police based on the stories they see here on Reddit. It worries me, since this is the same attitude of those who watch the 'lamestream media' that we condemn. 

In one episode of my favorite show 'Peep Show', the characters are watching a news report on a bus crash, and a female, hippie-style character says "Yeah, well what about all the buses that got to their stops on time??". To which the main character responds, (I'm paraphrasing, of course) "Yes, I suppose the news could be a comprehensive report of all the buses that successfully completed their rounds, only that would last *forever*...". That reminds of the situation here on reddit. We have many incidents of police brutality reported, but in the grand scheme of things they are the minority of police officers. It seems unfair to demonize the many for the actions of the few. There must be plenty of police officers out there doing an outstanding job, and if any of them come here, I feel sorry that they are disgraced by the miscreants of their industry.
<bot>: Not all cops are bad, so why does Reddit seem to hate on the police in general? Am I wrong in thinking that the problem is with the minority?