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I have for many years had a general impression that American police are more violent than the ones I’m used to here in Ireland. I’m not sure where that impression comes from. Fiction, probably. I read a lot.

That said, civilized countries, such as the UK and Canada, also have these problems. Here’s a note written by an Englishman living in Texas.

TRiG.

To the best of my knowledge Priya Lynn could not be classified as “conservative”. Further, such personal attacts are in violation of our comments policy. Please avoid them.

Apples sitting in an open air case at a grocery store where they are rotated nightly and examined for bruises are not going to display the same phenomena as apples closed up in a container for much longer period. This is exactly why the full phrase is so apt, because if the police actually faced some kind of accountability, the bad ones would be removed, and their disease wouldn’t be allowed to spread to the uncorrupted. It’s the perfect analogy for the police on every level, but only when taking the entirety of the original phrase.

It’s no wonder you’ve never heard it, because the most likely sources of your news never use it in it’s entirety, because it’s used to excuse away the systematic corruption by blaming “a few bad apples”.

When studying police complaints, routinely 80%+ are found to be against 2-3 officers, but IA rarely lifts a finger, because no evidence or witnesses is brought forth by their fellow officers.

One bad police officer that isn’t excised as soon as they are proven to be corrupt, ruins the whole department. Just like apples.

Kith, rotten apples, maybe as mold can transfer, but I was referrring to bruised apples, which, as I’ve said I’ve never seen such bruising being catchy.

It is an old proverb, it is “One ROTTEN apple can spoil the whole BARRLE.”

The scientific reason is that rotten apples release various gasses that promote the swift decay of the other fruit, and the Barrel part is important because a barrel is a closed system.

The phase has been used historically including by our founding fathers. It is even the cornerstone of a branch of economy and I found a rather long essay that used that phrase against both gay marriage and divorce. I am not going to bother to provide you a hundred links because I am going to assume you are competent enough to use Google, but I will give you the link to the dictionary definition for Bad Apple.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bad+apple

Google “one bad apple” and ethylene for more. I’ve also noticed this with tomatoes.

If you store apples in a box and just one of them has a bruise, that bruise will spread over the apple and across to the apples it’s touching, and will continue to spread until they’re all rotten. One singly tiny bruise on one apple will be enough to ruin them all.

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If you store apples in a box and just one of them has a bruise, that bruise will spread over the apple and across to the apples it’s touching, and will continue to spread until they’re all rotten. One singly tiny bruise on one apple will be enough to ruin them all.

Unfortunately Humans often work in exactly the same way. The Nazi party was actually very small – but their rottenness spread and ended tens of millions of lives.