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>>colinp+(OP)
It's a bit frustrating that a large portion of articles just refer to "police" as a singular group. This article is about the Memphis Police Department.

If a ring of doctors were caught illegally selling organs, we wouldn't title an article "Doctors have been selling organs for years". If bank tellers in a specific city were taking some money off the top of deposits, we wouldn't write "Bank tellers have been stealing money for years".

I'm sure there are some national issues with policing in the United States, but most police organizations are local. It's very unlikely that every local organization is bad, and even if they were, it would be very unlikely that every local organization is bad in quite the same way.

I don't think headlines like this help us balance the discourse. There's no concerted effort by police nationwide to spy on black reporters and activists. This is about a problem in Memphis, Tennessee. The content of the article doesn't imply anything beyond that. The title is extremely sensationalized, and many people will only read that far.

>>rdgthr+yd
I searched for “doctors caught selling organs”. Article title: “Do US Hospitals Push Organ Black Market?”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/do-us-hospitals-push-organ-blac...

(Spoiler alert: maybe, some, some of the time)

I don’t see how the current treatment of the police in the press is any different than other life-and-death professions.