On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Dennis:
>
>
> Cute. Police are government employees with the particular assignment
> of "protecting and serving" as they say here in Los Angeles. The job
> description does not include brutality.
>
>
> [WS:] No doubt. However, the point that you apparently missed was
> not to
> exonerate brutality of any kind, but to see it for what it is and
> in the
> right proportion - instead of filtering it through ideological
> lenses. For
> every case of police brutality (most of which is relatively mild
> anyway),
> there are hundreds of cases of thug brutality, which usually end in
> deaths
> of the victims. So one would expect that if rational people talk
> about
> brutality, that proportion would be somehow reflected in their talk.
> However, by your own count it is, respectively, 432:0 on this list.
>
> I have no problems recognizing the harm done by the abuse of police
> powers
> and posting pieces on that subject to this list - which I have done
> on a few
> occasions. I am yet to see you and others on this list recognizing
> the harm
> done by criminals to the society and posting pieces on that subject.
>
> Wojtek
>
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