Forgive the three posts, but InOBU's came while I was typing previous.

InOBU, well said. I am certainly not disputing the fact of corruption or misuse of authority by metropolitan police forces. Recently, records of the Denver Police Dept were seized by the FBI because of a spate of unjustified no-knock raids, one of which resulted in the shooting of an innocent man(wrong address). These occurrences of misuse and abuse of authority must be identified and stopped. The difference may be that I consider them an aberration, whereas you seem to consider them the norm. Perhaps in NYC they are the norm, and that is chilling.