Bill and Lew: This report — along with Will Grigg’s massive collection of other brutalities — illustrates the sociopathic nature of those who work for the police system. Such people want to work within an agency that permits them to exercise the violent powers of the state to enforce whatever whim they might have. To most police officers, the greatest offense amounts to behavior expressing a “contempt of cop,” and will be dealt with firmly. Their “right” to remain unaccountable (i.e., to not be answerable for their wrongs) is implicit in the definition of the state as a “system that … Continue reading The Nature of Police