You Have to Read it to Believe It

Here's the headline of a blog entry that tells it all:

Tearful Atlanta Cops Express Remorse for Shooting 92-Year-Old Kathryn Johnston, Leaving Her To Bleed to Death in Her Own Home While They Planted Drugs in Her Basement, Then Threatening an Informant So He Would Lie To Cover It All

I wouldn't want to be a police man. They deal with rough characters. They don't get paid enough for putting their life on the line. But I get outraged by police who step over the line and become thugs and criminals. I especially get outraged when the police "close ranks" and protect each other when this happens or which the police use their knowledge of the system to work the system to their advantage so they can get away with their crimes. It really, really disturbs me. Sadly too many people simply don't believe there are any "bad apples" in the police force. I know otherwise. And it isn't just police that are bad apples, there are bad prosecutors and bad judges. Unfortunately the system refuses to acknowledge that it has serious problems.