As ever, a most reasoned and well worded response to a sensitive subject :tup:.
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Because this is an American based forum with mostly US focused stories, don't for a minute think that this is a "US only" phenomenon. Take a look at this story.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89218§ionid=3510303
And I would respond to this story in much the same manner as I would if it were a US agency.
or this one..
http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/3699911/police-brutality-in-nottingham.thtml
"Police Taser and Beat Man"
How often have we seen the "US Taser" stories here? I think these Brit officers were perfectly within a reasonable use of force. Yet the "narrator" seems to think that perhaps these officers should have just been asking this punching and kicking drunk to nicely come along.
Same sort of thing there as we see here IMO.
No, you don't have to qualify. But all or your responses just come over as someone who doesn't want to even pounder the fact that a policeman can be wrong or do egotripping stuff. This is not to bash you because you are a policeman, and I do understand your position to defend what you do. But that's just how you come over. I hope this doesn't offend you too much.I can easily recall many of us cops saying that there are bad cops out there and that there are cops that do stupid things (look at the story about the cop fighting over a car stop) so I think you are being a bit melodramatic.
Since most of these stories are already phrased as "look at what the bad cop did", I think that most of us LEO's are simply trying to show what a possible reasonable explination MAY be from a cops perspective since the story is so obviously one sided.
I really don't know what is you you are expecting. Do we have to qualify every post with "I think the cop was wrong"?