You make valid points. Cops not getting enough notoriety when they do something good but get a lot of media coverage when they do something violent isn't exclusive to them. Negative usually outweighs the positive in terms of what gets coverage. The news usually leads with something horrible.
I'm a Black man and that is definitely true for my community. There were peaceful protests in Baltimore that hardly received any coverage. I'm certain most people weren't aware of it. It wasn't until the protests turned violent that the media coverage took off. Most wouldn't know there were previously peaceful protests being held and would get the impression that it got violent from the start.
Some posters may have taken offense at Nick being called corrupt but I think the opposite is also true. I think you took offense at Nick not being called corrupt. Your experience with law enforcement plays a part in that and I get why you would take offense. Your opinion on him being corrupt shouldn't be delegitimized just like a doctor watching House or even a medical student would have a problem with House being glorified. I know this happened because I've seen it plenty of forums.
I don't see Nick as a great hero or corrupt. I think he's done heroic and corrupt things but to label him as just one or the other would be disingenuous in my case. Being a fantasy doesn't give him a free pass because I certainly don't give Game of Thrones a free pass for all of the misogynistic writing, not setting but writing, it's had over the course of the series along with a bunch of other offensive and nonsensical things its tried to sell the public while some decide to eat all it up without giving it any critical thought whatsoever. I just think Nick had to make some hard choices about things that the people in his world weren't aware of so the suspects he was chasing couldn't be tried properly. It didn't give him the right to be judge, jury, and executioner but he also couldn't go through the normal legal process that wasn't equipped to deal with wesen.
There are wesen in Portland who have benefited from Nick's actions. I think labeling him a corrupt cop and nothing more is what people have a problem with here. Someone saying Nick has done some good things while skirting the law would probably be better received than just calling him a corrupt cop because that makes it seem like there's nothing good about him and puts him on the same level as Renard whom I'm reluctant to admit has probably done some good himself though he's more slimy.
I'm a Black man and that is definitely true for my community. There were peaceful protests in Baltimore that hardly received any coverage. I'm certain most people weren't aware of it. It wasn't until the protests turned violent that the media coverage took off. Most wouldn't know there were previously peaceful protests being held and would get the impression that it got violent from the start.
Some posters may have taken offense at Nick being called corrupt but I think the opposite is also true. I think you took offense at Nick not being called corrupt. Your experience with law enforcement plays a part in that and I get why you would take offense. Your opinion on him being corrupt shouldn't be delegitimized just like a doctor watching House or even a medical student would have a problem with House being glorified. I know this happened because I've seen it plenty of forums.
I don't see Nick as a great hero or corrupt. I think he's done heroic and corrupt things but to label him as just one or the other would be disingenuous in my case. Being a fantasy doesn't give him a free pass because I certainly don't give Game of Thrones a free pass for all of the misogynistic writing, not setting but writing, it's had over the course of the series along with a bunch of other offensive and nonsensical things its tried to sell the public while some decide to eat all it up without giving it any critical thought whatsoever. I just think Nick had to make some hard choices about things that the people in his world weren't aware of so the suspects he was chasing couldn't be tried properly. It didn't give him the right to be judge, jury, and executioner but he also couldn't go through the normal legal process that wasn't equipped to deal with wesen.
There are wesen in Portland who have benefited from Nick's actions. I think labeling him a corrupt cop and nothing more is what people have a problem with here. Someone saying Nick has done some good things while skirting the law would probably be better received than just calling him a corrupt cop because that makes it seem like there's nothing good about him and puts him on the same level as Renard whom I'm reluctant to admit has probably done some good himself though he's more slimy.