Probable Cause

As usual lately, reading this post on Scott Greenfield’s blog provokes me to a post of my own.  Sure, I could just leave a really long comment over on his blog, but lately I hardly get enough time to write, so aside from not wanting to leave an over-long comment, I wouldn’t get a post up on my blog if I didn’t “respond” here. This post is already going to pre-empt another I was working on regarding the (really high) number of police misconduct stories in the newspaper the other day. 

Also, this is kind of a follow-up to my last post.  Besides, some of what I’m responding to isn’t the post, as much as comments that followed it, including many which I read on Twitter.

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Look, we don’t see eye to eye.  I get that.  You have your view of the world; I have mine.  And our jobs require us to be key components in an adversarial system.

And even though it’s sometimes fun, or funny, to joke about it, “adversarial” doesn’t mean we’re enemies.

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