When people talk to their friends about police abuse.... their friends don't believe them.

Try to view it as an aggregation of unsound beliefs, attitudes and values.

It's kind of like code written without requirements, by someone who understood the goal of the project poorly because it wasn't described in a language they could speak, using all variables like A2, I3 and V1, built with a student compiler, executing on a static-zapped, assembly-line rejected CPU with errata, mounted on a circuit board soldered by hand connected to a compromised network, running from an intermittent power source controlling a water supply.

These are more reasons why journalism and free speech matter. We need to have the ability to self-inspect our country and intervene where it's deficient.