once again, I wasn't talking about how many good cops or bad cops there are. The question was executions, there aren't statistically significant rates of cops straight up executing people these days. At least not unless you are trying to redefine the word execution to mean other things.
Well, the issue IS about how many good cops and how many bad cops there are. And how many of those "good cops" know about the "bad cops" and don't do anything about it (anyone here think that only the indicted cops in the Kealoha case are the only ones who knew what was going on?). There is a LOT of evidence that corruption (of one kind or another) is quite common in police departments (missing drugs from the evidence locker? "We'll get back to you in a couple of years about that", while the cops who are "persons of interest" retire at full pension, etc.). Some people believe that these people who are given special privileges of all kinds, including the right to bear arms outside the home for self-defense here in Hawaii, ought to be held to a "higher standard". Sure, that's debatable, but a "lower standard"? Get away with shit BECAUSE they're cops?
Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter, etc. may be being hyperbolic if they use the term "execution" for all, most, or even many cases of questionable police use of lethal force, but there is no doubt that cops kill and seriously injure a lot of people (many of whom are not black), who, if you or I took the same action in the same situation, we'd be locked up for a long long time, while many of the cops either go free or get the proverbial "slap on the wrist". The search list of Codrea's site provides many examples of just such disparate treatment for cops who obviously abuse their "privileged" status. Equal treatment under the law would be a good standard to hold to, but that is obviously not the case.