Stupid Is As Stupid Does

[AntiochusIII]

I always believed that, whether the police are good or bad, the group-mentality is the worst perpetrator of police brutality.

It's like in the army, really. You don't tattletale; you don't challenge your superiors; you don't dig up your group's dirt for that annoying journalist -- and the punishment for those who speak up can range from ostracism to downright brutality. It's loyalty, man, and **** the law.

That's why when the bad stuff happens police (and army and a lot of authorities) tend to cover it up and hope it goes away instead of pursuing justice.

Other people and other groups do it too but it's much, much worse when the people doing it are supposed to be "servants of the people" in principle.

Hence why I'll never join the army or the police force or anything that might put me in this precarious position of choosing between my moral death and my physical and mental torment.

I'm also surprised to hear so many tales of police brutality in the United States. I don't know if the perception is a general reality or publicized isolated incidents...