"This isn't that bad, it's actually normal procedure" is one of the most insidious defenses for police conduct because it allows law enforcement to "teach" us what policing is "actually like" while simultaneously preventing a critique of their procedural use of violence.

see: almost every piece of true crime that has ever been made

If you do critique that use of violence, it's because you must not know enough about how policing really works

true crime almost always puts law enforcement officers in a position of imparting information and knowledge to the general public - knowledge that is upheld as objective and scientific through the many other tools of the genre (forensic analysis, crime statistics, etc.)

Anyway, this thread is my dissertation now, I'm dropping out