Comment Re:Fire all the officers? (Score 1) 515
Despite their dirty reputation, I don't think most of the cops in our neighborhood were rough, or corrupt. The cops I knew personally were OK, some of them unsung heroes even. I think there was a combination of a boys will be boys attitude and an us-vs-them climate that empowered a small minority of sociopathic cops to set the tone of community/police relations. And that, apparently, hasn't changed much.
So essentially this (normally human) behavior combined with a lack of consequences (or perverse incentives a al drug war) has led to a nationwide milgram experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...