"This isn& #39;t that bad, it& #39;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& #39;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& #39;m dropping out