(May 12, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It is important to remember that not all cops are corrupt assholes that shoot people in the back as they run away, or hold a prisoner down and electrocute him to death with a tazer. Or any number of stories where cops murder people on camera, and the response is that if the (often black) guy had just been obedient, he probably wouldn't have died.
Sure, it is important to remember that they are not all that way. Some are really fine people, trying to do a good job. But it is also important to remember that some are as you describe, and they typically get away with their crimes.
Also, you have to figure that it has been happening to a lot of people who were not on camera. The ones on camera are just the tip of the iceberg.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
