NYPD's Twitter Campaign Backfires

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:03PM from the hug-a-cop dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A NYPD community outreach campaign designed to show images of citizens with cops turned ugly quickly when a deluge of images depicting police brutality came in. From the article: 'The responses soon turned ugly when Occupy Wall Street tweeted a photograph of cops battling protesters with the caption "changing hearts and minds one baton at a time." Other photos included an elderly man bloodied after being arrested for jaywalking.' Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says, 'I kind of welcome the attention,' of the #myNYPD project."

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Re:If they were interested in upholding the law... by AK+Marc · 2014-04-23 12:27 · Score: 1, Flamebait

There are plenty of good cops out there,
No, there are bad cops, and cops that cover for bad cops (and are thus, bad cops). There are no good cops. Well, maybe some rookies that are particularly dumb. But that's not hard, when there is a screening to get rid of smart cops, but none to get rid of dumb ones.

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