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You know, I believe the New Orleans Police Department when they say that they are really better now than they used to be - much improved, if only because when I lived there the cops were robbing banks and murdering drug dealers for cash. Beating an unarmed sixty-four year old man to a bloody pulp is an improvement, of sorts, if you really want to compare.

The beating, however; has nothing to do with exhaustion or stress or Post-Katrina-shock or any of that. This is exactly how they roll and it was merely business as usual. On the bright side, if they are just now reaching the civil-rights violatin'/corruption level of, say, a late 80's LAPD? They have really improved. Kudos.

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I was gawking at a Mardi Gras-centered episode of Cops once and saw a high school classmate of mine. As a cop, luckily, not an arrestee, but it was almost as jarring. I've wondered, briefly, how he did during this whole mess.

On the bright side, if they are just now reaching the civil-rights violatin'/corruption level of, say, a late 80's LAPD? They have really improved.

Reminds me a bit of what James Ellroy has had to say about the LAPD of days of yore. Basically, if you thought the LAPD of the 1980s/early 1990s was bad, you don't remember the 1950s.

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