You are correct. The outliers are good ones.

Yup. I hope a hungry, aggressive, bad ass lawyer sees the punitive damages on the horizon and takes this case asap. We can only hope for better police  with prizes for success and mighty slaps for obvious failures.

On a gut level I agree with you, but I worry that had anyone interfered it would have resulted in nurse Wubbles and anyone who attempted to help her get injured or worse.

Why an 18 year old Soldier in a war zone running on 70 hours of no sleep is held to a higher standard of skill, professionalism, and discipline than a police officer in Anytown USA is beyond me; and to think that 18 year old Soldier would be less competent than the officer if the roles were reversed is unfathomable.

No and no. Many ex-military members are rejected from serving as officers because they’re ex-military. There are of course exceptions but those usually are due to nepotism.

Power. See how quick officer McSmalldick attacks the nurse after the person on the phone tells him he’s making a mistake? Officer McSmalldick believes he’s entitled to whatever he wants, and how dare you stand in the way.

I hate that you’re likely right. In our society, nurse Wubbles is most likely to get the result of the department taking appropriate action by suing over Detective Payne’s conduct. I share your doubt that any internal investigation will have teeth to change his behavior in the future, but a sizable settlement payment…

Just my opinion but the police in the US are very militarized, in fact a lot of them have background from the military so I feel that makes an impact. Also it turns into a very much us vs. them mentality...America is a violent country and we see it through cops. I will admit there are parts of this country where I…

Everyone who didn’t try to intervene should be fired too. Why did they let this happen? Like that security guy talking on his phone - what about doing your job? You’re witnessing a nurse on the hospital you work for getting assaulted!

Elsewhere, I think I saw someone estimate that it was the department’s attempt to get out in front of potential liability for the injuries to the truck driver because of the police chase. The logic being that if William Gray had any substances in his system, fault for the accident could be argued to be his (correct me…

From what I understand they wanted his blood so that they can test it and hopefully it will come back as dirty (drugs or alcohol etc.). Then if he wanted to bring a civil suit against the department for being injured due to thier high speed chase, which I think is against the departments policy, they can bring up his…

Once Payne and his superior who pushed him are fired and unable to find another job, then I’ll believe in that “goodness of society”.

Freedom of Religion these days means Freedom of Christian and Catholic religions to do whatever they want, and if you are neither Christian or Catholic, you are a terrorist or a leftist anarchist who want the government to crumble. Christian morals are the morals of the government, so if you do not follow those, then…

Recently I heard some factoid about how humans are the only animals with an ability to think of the future – to plan, yearn, anticipate. This got me thinking a whole lot about how this is a key part of the human experience, along with the ability to think back and reflect. Isn’t it very much a possibility that some…

The only thing that can make a person happy is making another person happy. And in the realm of our chosen actions, the ultimate opposite of love is selfishness, which, of course, includes hate, be it the selfishness of the individual or the group (e.g. Nazis).

Perhaps, considering their circumstances family wise, they couldn’t help but be raised as craven, petty idiots with the depth of a puddle who honestly think of adulthood, let alone handling being related to the “president,” as a series of elaborate make-believe games that involve insane amounts of dress-up and the…

Jared and Ivanka remind me of super douschy couple in a teen drama based on a private high school. Ivanka is head cheerleader and president of the Debutante Club while Jared is the captain of the polo team and became the head of the debate team after his pops donated a new library to the institution. All the kids at…

I love the piece, Ms. Adler, but let us never forget that there are many thousands of these assholes running the world right now, most of whom hold no governmental office at all, elected or taken.

Yeah, please fuck off forever. I’ve lived through catastrophic natural disasters. People need to eat and drink clean water. Christ, go jerk yourself off with Atlas Shrugged again, you wretched piece of shit.

Typical of a Llama to spit in the face of victims.