But systemic issues within an organisation doesn't mean that each individual within the institution espouses those issues.
It means that enough of them are those things (you can’t ‘espouse an issue’) for it to be systemic. That’s enough reason not to date them for me. If it’s not for you, crack on.
For a start, there are plenty of police officers who are from ethnic minority backgrounds and plenty who are gay.
There really aren’t. So much so that there’s currently a major push to recruit from minority backgrounds. There are certainly some officers from ethnic minority backgrounds and some who are gay. ‘Some’ does not equal ‘plenty’.
In fact, I would say there are far more gay women working as police officers than there are in most other institutions.
What is your basis for this? If you have any sources stating it, do please link them.
The majority of coppers are perfectly fine, just like the majority of priests don't rape little boys and the majority of journalists don't make things up and the majority of Muslims aren't terrorists and the majority of people who like football aren't hooligans.
Indeed. However (apart from the Catholic Church, which I tar with the same tainted brush) inquiry after inquiry hasn’t revealed those institutions to be systemically those things.
Perfectly fine not to want to date a police officer, but it's just silly to suggest that systemic failings in an institution mean that each individual working within it must embody them.
What do you think ‘institutionally racist’ means, exactly? Who do you think is targeting and brutalising young Black men? Individual police officers. Lots and lots of individual police officers. Enough police officers that Black parents have to have ‘the talk’ with their kids, to make sure they are aware they won’t be treated in the same way as their white peers and need to act accordingly.
That is what ‘institutional racism in the police force’ means. You seem to think the police officers are alright, it’s some vague amorphous ‘institution’ that’s the problem. No. That’s not even ‘just silly’, it’s dangerous ignorant racism apologia.