Sunday, March 29, 2009

Overzealous Detainment

Roderick T. Long, in noting the story about the Dallas police officer who detained and prevented NFL player Ryan Moats from seeing his dying mother one last time, comments on Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s weak response to why this occurred in a post titled We Need Better People in Power.

Kunkle states that the only way incidents such as these can be avoided is as follows.

...hire people with common sense and good people skills,...

Long’s comment in response to Kunkle.

No. The answer is to restore equality of rights between police officers and ordinary people. As long as one group of people has rights another group doesn’t, there’s no way to ensure reliable safeguards against the first group’s abusive treatment of the second.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/29 at 09:31 AM
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