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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRadley Balko, author of "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces"
is on Bill Maher saying that the emphasis has shifted to the types of classes cops have to take these days like "how to justify force after you have used it."
Book link: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UFQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384571394&sr=1-1&keywords=balko
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)"Qualified Immunity" is pure bulls**t.
Logical
(22,457 posts)worship them. Heros, etc.
People are gullible as hell.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Bill brought up the NM incident and Balko said 2 more people have come forward saying the same thing happened to them. He said he talked to constitutional lawyers and medical ethics people and what the police did was illegal, prosecutor and judge signed off on was illegal, the doctors violated their code of ethics and no one will be held responsible...it could all happen again tomorrow.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)And it's getting worse all the time.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Like, there's no setting between "I'm going to write you a ticket" and "One more move and I blow your head off"