Interesting call about police lying. Somehow, you're not allowed to lie to them, but they're allowed to lie to you. Now, the caller was talking about illicit lying, but there's also the condoned sort, where the police "interrogation" actually consists of them telling you what you did--a process that has been proven recently to have the ability to change people's memories, thereby getting false confessions.

The most important thing in training police is to indoctrinate them in the goal of actual justice, not just of convicting somebody, anybody.

Two points: when local authorities here in California respond to a call of a bear roaming in the neighborhood, they make every effort to capture him alive and relatively unhurt. They use tranquilizer guns, nets, and other tools. But we seem to afford no such humanity to an unarmed human being. Given press reports, more than 90% of the bears are captured and rendered harmless, unharmed.

Secondly, when I went through basic military training, they took over 10 weeks to develop instincts in me to react to kill any threating enemy. When GIs return from deployment, many as long as 7 or more years of service, the government doesn't even spend 1 week de-programming those soldiers to o longer have those instincts in their sub-conscious or reactive mind. At a minimum, this is a disservice to society. Instead, we choose to put weapons in their hands and release them into society. And lately, we dress them just like soldiers in Iraq, hand them the same kind of weapons, and tell them the public is "the enemy". Why should we be surprised their first instinct is to kill?

If anybody should share in the guilt, it is us and our government officials, and our military. De=programming should be mandatory, and no soldier should be released into society until they are proven free of their inserted instinct to kill.

Change violence to violins