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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
In your hypotheticals, the doctors lose their licenses and go to jail, the tellers lose whatever certs they have and go to jail. We rarely see police go to jail for their crimes. Not to mention, Blacks have had problems with police since the first slave patrols were formed in 1704 which is the legacy from which modern policing extends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol

>... There's no concerted effort by police nationwide to spy on black reporters and activists.

Are you serious? There has always been a suspicion of the black community and the people in it from COINTELPRO to the modern day FBI fiction of "Black Identity Extremists"

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/23/black-identity-extremist...

Your whole post is a hamfisted attempt to discount the interactions between race, policing and power as well as the historical context.