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I think there's two key differences here: 1) The police can get away with stuff even when the public has clear video proof of wrong-doing. Usually that's enoug

I think there's two key differences here: 1) The police can get away with stuff even when the public has clear video proof of wrong-doing. Usually that's enough to at least trigger the "sacrifice a scapegoat" process, but not here. 2) The police can get away with violating not only policy, but actual laws.

danShumway 6y ago
Right. I'm less sympathetic to this argument than I was years ago when I first started paying more attention to police corruption, because since then I've watched widespread protests happen over police brutality, and I've watched prosecutors literally just refuse to charge the officers involved. The protests didn't matter, prosecutors would not consciously attack the people on "their side." It's an argument that sounds good, and in a system that wasn't so fundamentally broken, it might even be true. But it doesn't hold up to the reality we're seeing with police departments. We're past the point where we can describe the problem as just being about education or awareness. The current system is brazen.