aleshakills:

And to piggyback on that post, copaganda shows aren’t meant to make you “love cops.” They’re meant to make you view police as individuals, and not institutions. That’s why every one of these shows, from Law and Order to present, has “bad cops” on the cast. Crooked cops, racist cops, misogynistic cops, asshole cops. They’re presented as the antagonists, in opposition to the “good” gay cops and black cops and single mom cops and dad who does his little girl’s hair cops. 

If they can convince you to individualize cops into the good ones and the bad ones, even on a subconscious level, that’s half the battle. That gets their foot in the door. Cause now they can put forward the “good cops” to push legislation to increase their budgets. They can get “good cops” to testify to juries. “Good cops” who are gay or black or parents or older siblings would never falsify evidence or brutalize unarmed civilians or lie to protect a coworker, right?

Except when they do.