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People who have escaped from a vicious culture, in this case one which tolerates criminality, celebrates noncompliance, and internally punishes snitching, tend to react negatively when they meet people they perceive as still advocating that culture through their actions.
We see the same with atheists who escape a vicious religious culture, Christians who escape a vicious nihilistic culture, furries who escape a vicious culture of hierarchical power-mad humans, transgender people who escape a vicious gender binary culture, detransitioners who escape a vicious culture of love-bombing and single-minded purpose, alcoholics who escape a vicious culture of “casual” social drinking and enabling into the discipline and companionship of AA, converts to Mormonism, converts out of Mormonism, former (name political party here), and so on.
It’s a very human (great ape) dynamic which should be expected wherever one culture can be an escape from another which has hurt them. In the case of police who grew up on the mean streets, they become mean cops, no matter their race.
Of course, they of all people have no excuse for following this dynamic to its logical end, because a society with mean cops is a vicious society everyone wants to escape from.
(I think I just discovered a good B-plot hook for Zootopia 2: Nick Wilde gets a bit rough with another fox while arresting him, and both the petty criminal and Judy notice.)
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