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Guilt by association is a cop-out* by a citizenry that doesn't want to fight City Hall. Cops' actions are either legal or illegal, after that it's all politics. Everyone in the profession knows it and that's why a fired cop can get a job with another department.
The same occurs in many professions. People get fired for being politically incorrect. It's so extensive in the military that when a servicemember gets their discharge papers, a federal copy and a state copy, the military is prohibited from putting the character of the discharge (e.g. honorable, general, uncharacterized...etc.) on the state copy by some states.
One politician's bad cop is another politicians good cop. One citizen's good cop is another citizen's bad cop. Whether actions are legal or illegal is what counts. If you don't like what's legal because you think it's bad, change the laws instead of using politicians to make scapegoats out of those low on the totem pole. That just passes the problems on to another place and time.
*so sue me
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