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    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...vagueness.html

    An important discussion of the standards by which LE are judged in use of force, and how things may be trending.

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    Incidents such as those in your Youtube playlist are in the public mind, police just doing their jobs. Appreciated, to be sure, but what they are paid to do. People expect strength and bravery and crisis handling. For some reason, a couple likely being better access to technology and broader understanding of individual rights, incidents such as the ones you highlight are being drowned out by the type seen across a myriad of homepages dedicated to preventing the opposite - police brutality (and recourse against it).

    http://www.copblock.org/
    http://www.policebrutality.info/
    http://filmingcops.com/
    http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
    http://www.policeabuse.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/policethepoliceACP

    This is a very small sampling of what's available with a quick search engine query of the subject.
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    Drowned out indeed!

    Unfotunately in so many instances there is so little understanding of so many factors that go in to these cases. But that doesn't matter - the police are sworn servants of the public and must acknowledge the public's right to demand answers.

    The issue to overcome is that for some, when often the answers don't fit the pre-determined bias, there is a refusal to accept that things aren't as they seem.

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    What do you feel is a proper standard of police accountability and how do you go about gaining public understanding?
    Nullius in verba

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