Arrogance and entitlement are the diseases in American policing
Petula Dvorak
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“Humbled”?
That’s not what comes to mind when you watch the viral video of two tiny-town Virginia police officers harass, humiliate, power-play and pepper spray Army officer Caron Nazario after they pulled him over on a dark stretch of road for no obvious reason.
Yet it’s the word that Police Chief Rodney D. Riddle uses every year to describe those officers and the rest of his small-town department to the Windsor Town Council.
“[Windsor Police Department] Officers remain humbled and honored by the opportunity to continue to serve the citizens of Windsor,” is how Riddle concludes each of the reports he submits to justify why a quiet, Tidewater town of 2,600 should spend a whopping 33 percent of its budget on policing.