Too dismissive. I thought the piece was excellent, told stories I hadn't heard before, and made me think about the problem differently. It's not easy to act c

Too dismissive. I thought the piece was excellent, told stories I hadn't heard before, and made me think about the problem differently. It's not easy to act correctly in insane situations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment. Plus other experiments show that most of us can easily be manipulated into doing horrific things. These are not necessarily rotten police officers. It may be a rotten system. One nice insight of the post was that modifying the behavior of the few at the top of the hierarchy can effect widespread change. And somehow, we've got to find a way to stop brutalizing and incarcerating so many people. The more Reddit Hudsons there are, the faster we'll get there.