Radley Balko, author of "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces"

[RiffRandell]

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]

1. Cops are now being trained to keep order at any cost.

"Qualified Immunity" is pure bulls**t.

[Logical]

2. Cops lie, abuse their power and hide bad cops. And no one will prosecute them. And Americans.....

worship them. Heros, etc.

People are gullible as hell.

[RiffRandell]

5. That's basically what he said.

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]

3. This is a major problem

And it's getting worse all the time.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. There seems to be a general inability to modulate the reaction appropriately to given situations.

Like, there's no setting between "I'm going to write you a ticket" and "One more move and I blow your head off"

[markpkessinger]

6. Steroids will do that n/t