⚖There Is No GDMF Such Thing as a GDMF BAD APPLE

It is long past time to call BS on the whole “bad police apple” narrative. Occasionally using the Minneapolis Police Department (“MPD”) as a surface-scratch case study, here are five reasons why there is no such thing as “bad apple” when it comes to American policing.

“When it comes to American policing, there are no ‘bad apples,’ only negligently cultivated orchards, people.”

REASON 1: where American police supervisors watch the apples go bad rather than see to their removal, it stops being an accidental apple and becomes an intentional crop.

Apple managing is not a passive sport.

Yes, one bad apple next to one good apple can, indeed, spoil its neighbor. But, there is a well-known feat of physics that defeats that corruption: it’s called “reaching over and removing the offending fruit.”

Moreover, say that a bad apple is left next to a bunch of good apples for — let’s pick a random number — 944 days. Does the apple spoil the bunch, or was the bunch abandoned to the apple?

REASON 2: the test for a bad apple is not about the apple but the farmer. If the American police leadership “farmer” is bad, fermented police “apples” are not singular and rare, but expected and…