RateMyCop.com more for tickets than murder

The media has shown some interest in a new police officer rating web site RateMyCop.com. It’s similar to campus offerings like RateMyProf or disgusting newcomer JuicyCampus, where students anonymously post which youngsters are SLUTTS at UCLA and who the sexiest varsity water polo player is Harvard.
As discussed last week, people are increasingly using technology [...]

Disagreements about Responding to Authority

We must always question authority. Their claim to it, their use of it, their backers, their purpose. And certainly question more aggressively than we have been. But that idea that we must simply defy established authority for the sake of defiance is absurd. Most established authority is unjust, immoral, illegal, self-serving, corrupt, or criminal — [...]