> He wasted valuable city resources He should have been booked immediately, followed by being given the standard fare for the crime. Potentially upgraded due t

> He wasted valuable city resources He should have been booked immediately, followed by being given the standard fare for the crime. Potentially upgraded due to having being pompous initially. He can't be blamed for the fact that they turned it into a full trial (they only offered him jail time for a non-violent crime), nor for the parole time (the duration was way above what is normal), nor for the polices' time (he literally walked into the precinct and then they decided to drive him around town). > someone else was getting away with a purse snatching, or beating up an ex-girlfriend, or playing the knock-out game, or emptying a cash register He walked into a precinct, who inside of a precinct is out stopping these things? They could have offered him a year parole and 10 days community service and he would have taken it, being orders worse than the usual penalty. > Enjoy sleeping in the bed you made He didn't actually complain about his situation, he complained about those around him. The guy wanting sugar pills, the guys being cramped with another cell available, the beating up suspects. He did a minor complaint about being driven around town to make it seem like they did their job, but that was more related to the absurdity than his time. > If they bend the rules, they are severely punished. Protect the Blue doesn't exist in your world? I will not claim that officer's aren't held to a higher standard, but there is plenty of evidence that police standards could be higher given their position of power. > At the end of the day, not catching the bad guys is the biggest sin in law enforcement This needs to change. 100% coverage is not obtainable nor a lofty goal. Coverage as good as reasonable standards for everyone involved is what we want. > Yet, to walk a mile in their shoes, both the police and the criminal justice system as a whole, is to see the world a little differently from the average Atlantic Monthly reader or Hacker News reader. Isn't that the entire point of this article? Whether you agree with him or not, that is what he is achieving here.