Well, it&#x27;s not exactly the black people&#x27;s fault that the police decided to be corrupt. So now they&#x27;ve made their own bed and they&#x27;ll have to lie in it: if they could have categorically said &#x27;this does not happen&#x27; they would have had a strong position. Now <i>everybody</i> that gets in trouble with the police can muddy the waters by saying that the evidence was planted. And in some of those cases that will be the truth.<p>These officers have all but destroyed the reputation of their force and that&#x27;s something that they&#x27;re not going to recover easily - if at all.<p>So, let&#x27;s have a productive public conversation: How will guarantees be provided that something like this can never happen again, how will the people affected by this be properly compensated for the crimes done to them, how will <i>everybody</i> involved in these affairs be charged, tried and punished, from high to low and how will the police force change it&#x27;s inner culture so that <i>if</i> there is another instance of such a thing it will be immediately and swiftly dealt with before another culture like the current one can take root?<p>All that has nothing to do with the arrest rates of blacks, elevated black criminality and the black community at large, this is a police problem, and <i>only</i> a police problem, the people evidence was planted on are called <i>victims</i> and you don&#x27;t get to blame those for any misconduct of the other party.<p>I&#x27;m assuming that if they plant evidence they plant evidence where-ever they feel like and if they want to arrest people for no good reason that they&#x27;ll do that too to whoever they feel like. If they do that more often to blacks than to others then there are <i>yet</i> more problems but these are significant enough by themselves to be extremely damaging.<p>&gt; While I of course condemn polite misconduct, I can understand how repeated interaction with a recalcitrant criminal element could harden and corrupt a police officer.<p>I can&#x27;t. If you can&#x27;t stand the heat stay the fuck out of the kitchen. Good police officers can not function if their not-so-good colleagues spoil the reputation of the whole department like this.<p>To those that downvoted this comment: feel free to explain your reasons.