Some more isolated incidents
The first seven incidents I linked to were reported in the last month alone. That may tell you something about frequency. They were not systematically sought out by me; they are merely the cases that I happened to be aware of just off the top of my head. If you would care to do a bit of your own research, you could find many more.
For example, we have yet another isolated incident, in Waite Park, Minnesota.
And another isolated incident in Golden Valley, Minnesota.
And yet another isolated incident, in Pennsylvania.
Here’s another isolated incident in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Mount Kisko, NY and New York City, NY.
And yet another isolated incident, in Chicago. Along the way, this story notes:
Between 2002 and 2004, for example, more than 10,000 complaints — many of them involving brutality and assault — were filed against Chicago police officers.
Here’s several more cases, and several recorded on video, if you like.
Now, neither Randall nor I made any claim about whether violence by police (or by government-hired rent-a-cops, as in the Palmdale case) is “epidemic.” He said only that it was systemic, and I implied that these cases are not appropriately described as “isolated incidents.” (Which comes to the same thing.) Something may be systemic without being “epidemic,” since the latter has to do with how often something happens, whereas the former has to do with what caused it, when it did happen. But the fact that every one of these articles came out just in the last month, and every one of them I found with a causal search on Google News, may, again, tell you something about how frequent this sort of thing is.
Finally, as for the “good cops” out there, if I’ve hurt their fee-fees by saying something unfair or unbalanced, well, I for one am sorry. But comparing hurt fee-fees to lynch mobs and race riots strikes me as a bit hyperbolic.
And conflating a harsh attitude towards those who have chosen to take on a particular State-privileged profession, even if that attitude is somehow unfair, with bigotry against a race of people, also strikes me as a bit confused.
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