I appreciate the incredible work police do when they are needed in emergencies. This post was written in part as reply to a Northwest Corner Chatter topic on the heroic save by Trooper Roy Dungan of a passenger who had overdosed in Torrington CT. As a person living in Brooklyn for much of the past few years, I have had to learn more about the ways police can be prone and even 'mistrained' or stray from their training to do harm.
The most serious case in recent years for the public to consider is the way Eric Garner was possibly profiled (by whom and for what purpose has yet to be clarified.
