The thing is though we aren't watching all of the videos available online of police doing terrible things. We see a few really bad ones that hit the news. But there are thousands of others. You could spend weeks watching them. Lots of them are not as egregious or violent but they definitely show a terrible lack of understanding of the scope of authority, a gross abuse of power and an over all contempt and desire to endanger the public. It's standard operating procedure. There is an awful lot that can be done to fix that sort of problem. It's not one off or rogue officers. It's trained agents completing their normal duties. Those smaller abuses of the public trust are exactly why we're here.
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