Instead, I think we need to need to continually monitor them and keep them in check. One such group that was recently in the news is http://iwitnessvideo.info/. Check them out if you haven’t already..

Anyway to respond to the article. I do acknowledge we need police around these days but we do also have to work towards a policeless state. You will always have someone thinking of themself better than another. Give such a man power, how educated and how hard requirements have been, it goes wrong.

@magus71 – The Law without Force is impotent? “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” Ghandi. Throwing quotes is always easy. Speak for yourself. In no possible way is violence or force just. The unusual is the thing that sticks out most, so indeed the one searching for scapegoats, finds an easy victim. But on the other hand, shouldn’t there be stronger rules against this kind of abuse? If the institute with the power clearly shows to be against this abuse and shows this is not the way to do so, no one can make the unusual the usual as you state it.

I do not claim that a police officer or any human being for that part, has to let themself get hit, but being a brute is in never a reasonable way to act.

I do have to agree with the CNN/media-issue though. The circus has to go round and round. Make the afraid of the Law-enforcers and perhaps they become calm. Sensation keeps the man in the street alive. The biggest issue is always balance. We can’t say all police-enforcers are brutes or act in a violent way but we can’t forgive those who do just because some folks like to bring sensation to the streets. I also agree that people are easily touched and rather “stick it to the man”. Yet again a balancing issue, people should learn to handle their mistakes themselves instead of pushing the guilt to the other. But ‘the man’ makes it so easy to be blamed by being what we say he is.

Being a police-officer is a choice of our own, don’t like the return, quit. No one forces anyone to be one, no one likes being forced…

I can assure you that the requirements in becoming a police officer are significantly higher than most jobs. What’s the officer’s reward for such high standards? An average paying job, work on weekends, nights, holidays, most of which include arguing with every knucklehead and street-lawyer in the city. Oh, let’s not forget frivolous lawsuits, daily hateful jibings from “clients”, physical injuries, snide comments from the general populace at traffic stops, and best of all; snooty pseudo-intellectual critiques by the most naive people in the world: College Undergrads…

“The Law without Force is impotent.”~ Blaise Pascal