I don't know, maybe arewethereyet was trying to make some point about abuse vs murder, but I failed to get it. I probably shouldn't have made the analogy because it's distracted from the primary point of my post, that police are meant to be the protectors of the public. They are expected to apprehend suspected criminals, not innocent people. And they are not expected or intended to dole out final justice in any case. That's the job of the courts. It's understood that police should be allowed to protect themselves from violent criminals, but in so many cases they overreact and do harm to unarmed people that it is simply unacceptable. I don't know what the acceptable rate of unintended harm would be, but my intuition tells me that right now the rate is too high. I just don't understand anyone who can ignore this and accept the status quo as OK.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
