I think it's important to keep in mind the context of when some of these arrests and convictions occured. This is not a judgement but rather an observation: Is

I think it's important to keep in mind the context of when some of these arrests and convictions occured. This is not a judgement but rather an observation: Is it possible that when violent crime escalates night after night, that the hand of the law gets larger, and larger? Thus it becomes a perceived war zone for the police, where it's now arrest and convict, no matter whom, in order to do whatever it takes to stop the crime. I think broken windows was an example of this. Rights were violated, people wrongfully convicted. When the public and the politicians are demanding that the police do something, what's to stop the overreach?