'It was a crank call': family seeks action against 911 caller in Walmart shooting

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91. There's an enormous difference between what is and, ideally, what should be.

I don't cut the RW any slack when they say stupid stuff like "We should outlaw Islam!", e.g, so I'm not going to be hypocritical and overlook equally stupid statements when they happen to be made by progressives. I was trained as a lawyer, and words have meaning. The criminal justice system is not some vague concept to me, but a very real one, real enough that I can understand the bewilderment and outrage that people have with it, while at one and the same time understanding precisely why Case A produced Result X. That's what I meant when I said that I could walk and chew gum at the same time.

While I don't think that all police are 'out of control', I do believe that a disturbingly high percentage are. I also think that the law that is applicable to officer-involved shootings has failed to keep pace with both police behavior and technology, particularly with the post-911 militarization of law enforcement in this country.

I think that making DOJ investigations de rigeur in officer-involved shootings (with obvious exceptions of the type I mentioned) is the only practical way to rein in law enforcement as it exists in America, 2014 C.E. .

Any clearer?