Except that there seem to be plenty of times where there are other bad consequences.
Now, maybe we can chalk it up to news agencies and mass media bias for negative stories. But I can’t even find online anecdotal accounts from ordinary people. I keep readily coming across stories of police brutality, corruption, and endangerment, both in the “formal” media and in the unverified stories of individuals, but I can’t seem to find even a single rumoured instance of the police taking every possible precaution in the manner I described.
Again, maybe my perception is skewed, but based purely on my own intuitions, experiences, accumulated hearsay, and general sentiment, it is essentially unthinkable to me for American police to behave the way I postulated they should in the sort of scenario I suggested. I honestly cannot seriously believe that the police would act that way, and that’s depressing.
