Enforcers category archive
“Bad Apples” 0
Writing at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Elijah Todd-Walden finds that the “few bad apples” notion regarding rogue cops is of little comfort. A snippet:
Perhaps the most apt comment I’ve heard about “the few bad apples on the police force” theory of police brutality came in a recent episode of The Bob Cesca Show (I can’t remember precisely which one).
Suppose, asked one of the participants, that, after a pilot flew an airliner into the side of a mountain, the airline announced that it was just one of a few bad apples among its crews?
No Questions Asked 0
Badtux wonders why good cops are so willing to protect bad cops.
The Independent Variable 0
My local rag investigates why some protests turn violent and others do not.
Their findings may surprise you.
Self-Incrimination 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., looks back at the events of the past two weeks and concludes
Yet, here’s the startling truth: No one has made a stronger case against the police than the police.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Immunity Impunity
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Yet another tiresome report of police violence, with a “justification” which is, quite frankly, as shaky as a house of straw.
The Rotting Orchard 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Steven Buckley writes of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. This passage left out at me:
Follow the link for the complete article.
Descent 0
Will Bunch is less than sanguine.