I am happy to be that foil. I hope that I encouraged everyone to express an opinion. I think my opinion is much closer in line to yours than you think. We have a system where Prosecutors are elected on the promise of convicting criminals. The police are charged with catching criminals. The incentives are to catch and convict. Yet, we are all part of this society. We would like to feel safe from the police and our neighbor with a gun. True, the Justice system is adversarial putting those with the least resources at the most peril. Can there be checks and balances? What would they be?
But, I still emphasize the we, the us… those who live in this society.
My initial motivation to post was watching a police officer arrest a naked oiled white man while saying,” don’t resist”. My reaction was, what is the urgency? Why not wait and call for back up? I saw the police trying to get in charge of a situation, dominate, intimidate. Yet, police are people. Maybe, undereducated etc. I tend to think that it is the role they are asked to play.
What else has to change?
