A question about Authoritarianism

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Actually the police have become better, not worse. You might not know that until 1940s it was not uncommon for police to beat and torture suspects, and confessions obtained with those methods were upheld in court.
http://news.findlaw.com/court_tv/s/2...002122233.html

Yes, there are bad cops who do bad things, but on the whole this is much less common than it used to be.

As far as Americans being pro-or-anti-authoritarianism, there are always individuals who believe in one extreme or the other, but for the most part we like our cops to leave their opinions at home and do the job by the book. It's funny, but most of the cops I've ever had dealings with were good people and left me with a good experience.

On the other hand, I'm not black.

Only in these old gangster movies. Now I have learned something new-thank you.

I remember an old episode of Kojak, In the start of the episode there were a text saying something like this
"This episode is....realistic and is about when USA got the "you ahve the right to be silence, every thing you say a.s.o)

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