I'd always planned for the latter, because I loathe automatically-bad-cops stories. It took YEARS for him to slide from good ol' boy attitude into BIGOTRY, and from there into specific soup-fear and THAT bigotry.
His captain even started putting pressure on by assigning him partners who were black, Latina, Vietnamese... She was HOPING he would say or do anything actionably bigoted, even if it was just an internal complaint to the ethics department.
She's got a styrofoam "tombstone" tucked in her desk drawer now, with Tanner's badge and ID clipped to it. She feels like they failed to help him early enough, failed to redirect him, etc. She's completely determined to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Which makes her a good resource for Bluehill, BTW; her suburb of Chicago doesn't have a lot of budget, but she's making every penny count with better training. Sharing that with other cops is one way she's dealing with her reactions to Tanner.
Re: the BASH trained cops
His captain even started putting pressure on by assigning him partners who were black, Latina, Vietnamese... She was HOPING he would say or do anything actionably bigoted, even if it was just an internal complaint to the ethics department.
She's got a styrofoam "tombstone" tucked in her desk drawer now, with Tanner's badge and ID clipped to it. She feels like they failed to help him early enough, failed to redirect him, etc. She's completely determined to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Which makes her a good resource for Bluehill, BTW; her suburb of Chicago doesn't have a lot of budget, but she's making every penny count with better training. Sharing that with other cops is one way she's dealing with her reactions to Tanner.