Do you want to punish the cops for following protocol or change the protocol?
The problem, at it's root, is our whole system, stemming from British-style elitist-managed socialism. . . . er. . . British fascism.
It's based on the Lords of the Castles keeping the peasantry "safe" or "secure" but utterly dependent on their Lordly grace. . . . er. . . . taxes or land rents high enough to make sure there is no way "out" for the peasants, and a form of "education" that ensures servility.
John Dewey, the "great" socialist educator imported from England, who became our leading influential educator in the the twenties and thirties, advocated ditching the classical sort of education. In Europe, this sort of education was used to breed elites who were fit to rule the unwashed masses around the world. But when some Americans dawdled over Greek and Latin, and read the writings from civilazations that once toyed with ideals of human dignity and fondly embraced the intellectual powers a human can rise to, given a little room to do so, something went terribly wrong, in the estimation of the royal snobs and hangers-on in the "best cirlces of society".
It was a repeat of the fiasco that inflamed Europe when printing presses and some idealistic fools like Martin Luther, endowed the common man with human rights of conscience. Education that teaches and empowers the human to reason is just not good for the people. Well, that is, it's too good for the masses, too dangerous to let ordinary folks have access to a dignified human existence based upon the capacity for reason. No, that was just a waste of scarce government resources. No Sir. We must treat people like dumb animals, and "Train to Task". With "Task" defined by "elites" who own the resources, the land, the castles, and the armies, and the governments. Brit fascism, in short. Ah socialism and fascism are the dreams of many a parlor-bred elitist.
So, as a consequence, we have morons like you who rely on "protocol" as a substitute for "humanity".
Reliance on a formulaic sort of "righteousness" that would put the Pharisees to shame.
Where-ever you go today. . . . no doubt in your job. . . . you have systematic procedures that tell you what to do in every little aspect of your work. The workplace has no tolerance for thinking workers anymore. Doctors can't use their own immediate insights, they have to dole out medicines and procedures "by the book". Too many insurance bureaucrats watching and too may lawyers itching to sue. Professionals of every kind have institutionalized "protocol" in the stead of intelligence, creativity, and art. . . . well, instead of common sense, really.
No franklin, I wouldn't deign to write a new protocol. Maybe it's too late for us as a civilization to mend our ways and aspire once again to intelligence, but I urge you all to try.
The cops have who have "protocols" that require them to mercilessly beat non-compliant drugged crapbags to death have lost their most essential of human attributes.
A society that has "protocols" in the place of common sense, common decency, and the essential human virtues, has lost it's whole justification for being. Time to take it down, and start over.
time for returning to Jesus and his principles, I'd say.
Of all the places on earth where people could rise up and take a stand for humanity, no place needs it as much as SoCal. Well, except for Utah, that is, where the LDS "faith" has wholeheartedly embraced absolute Protocol worship and has become the most reliable bastion of Brit socialism/fascism on the face of the Earth, and the one place that will not only tolerate but actually reverence, servility for the sake of servility.
