Comments on: Police Brutality https://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/police-brutality/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:14:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Toddy Cat https://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/police-brutality/comment-page-1/#comment-1486312 Toddy Cat Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:58:57 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36056#comment-1486312 Those statistics make sense. As I’ve commented before, if you just assume that America just went batsh*t crazy from 1968 through 1975, you wouldn’t be too far wrong. Crime was spinning out of control, and the new restrictive police policies had limited the cops’ ability to deal with criminal behavior in a more “nuanced” way (as John Kerry would put it). This allowed many situations that would have previously been handled with a lower level of violence getting out of hand, until a shooting resulted. Certainly there are bad cops out there, and they seem to see themselves less as public servants than as some kind of Praetorian Guard these days, but a lot has improved.

]]> By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/police-brutality/comment-page-1/#comment-1485516 Alrenous Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:10:14 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36056#comment-1485516 Complaints against cops for use of force follow a power law. Roughly speaking, given 100 cops, one will have fifty complaints, one twenty, and the next highest will have eight.

The part that inspires cynicism is that the local cops must know which apple is the bad one. Yet they’ll defend him over you, revealing their true priorities. It’s nice that the priorities work out okay in most cases, but don’t forget they’re not really on your side.

I’ve had a couple personal encounters with cops. They really don’t seem that bad, at least around here. Didn’t hassle me at all. Haven’t needed the ‘never talk to cops’ best practice yet.

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