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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4944904" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>Without question police corruption hurts this nation and makes it much more difficult for police to do their job, but again for some Americans they view the police as standing between them and the groups of other Americans whom they view as inherently violent and dangerous.  So they give the police a lot of latitude to be violent with those groups to control them.  So rational discussions about police corruption are very difficult to have.  I mean there are other reasons that discussion would be difficult, the police unions have a lot of power, and the relationship the police have with heads of local governments around the nation, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>