Originally Posted by
AngryMiller
Law Dawg, I used to work with a guy who was on the reserve police officer force of Mesquite, Tx. One Monday, he came to work and said that he'd given a beating to a lippy hippy. I asked him what he'd attempted to do in the course of that beating and his response was "teach him a lesson." My reply to that was, "all you've succeeded in doing is to forever make him, his friends, and family distrust/hate all police officers." He pretty much stopped talking to me after that. Some police officers do commit excesses in real life that would be better left to Hollywood fantasy.
This is precisely why it is very important to take even minor excesses with the utmost seriousness. That is, we the citizens, should report them, and the appropriate levels of supervision must act prompty with proper discipline.
Without accountability, minor excesses tend to become major very quickly.