Not to sound cliche but with great power comes great responsibly. Police should be held to a higher standard. As far as pattern-matching goes, very simply, they

Not to sound cliche but with great power comes great responsibly. Police should be held to a higher standard. As far as pattern-matching goes, very simply, they need to do better. They are being lazy if they refuse to consider alternatives, these are people’s lives we are talking about here. The couple in this story went through hell then the police make it even worse, that’s not ok. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that they don’t jump to conclusions like this. The police ignored evidence at the scene that corroborated what the couple told them and continued to insist they were right even though they had no evidence backing up their charges. Just their gut feeling and “pattern-matching”. When we here multiple stories about the other professions doing the things you mentioned and, this is key, them getting away with it, no repercussions, we can talk. The police are the only (aside from maybe very rich people/corporations who in some cases use the police to exercise their will) people who have this kind of impunity. The police have the power to kill you with impunity. The police have the power to absolutely ruin your life even if you did nothing wrong. The have the power to take your belonging and require you prove their innocence. They should have to answer for the times they get it wrong.