Tuesday, December 4, 2007

How the Boys in Blue Betray Our Trust

Perhaps this could be considered late news, but it appeared just today on the cached-news Web site Reddit. It's a nice article about police brutality under the then-elected Mayor of New York, Rudy Guliani. He let slide plenty of police brutality complaints. I love it when bloggers and forum members dig up dirt on a rotten politician. And if you didn't think this guy was rotten before--what with using his office and other public rooms for sex with his mistress and having her use the NYPD as her personal taxi service--maybe this will finally penetrate your dense skull.

Unfortunately, this isn't an isolated incident. These kinds of brutalities happen pretty regularly, and it's just one more reminder of the disintegration of state support that minorities face. I can't recall the last time I heard a story about a white man who was relaxing in a club and was subsequently arrested and raped by police officers after a fight broke out.

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