Assinine comment of the week

The New York Times printed an article on the 7th about their feelings on expanding the right to self defense. The assinine comment belongs to Paul A. Logli, president of the National District Attorneys Association.

“They’re basically giving citizens more rights to use deadly force than we give police officers, and with less review,”

Let's be real Paul. Officers use deadly force way more often and have so little review as to be nothing more than a write off by the powers that be. For proof of this, all you have to do is go to radley balko's web blog at theagitator.com.
Radley has written an article on the rising paramilitarization of police raids and how they result in needless violent deaths of suspect, officer, and, worst of all, innocent people. Read the article Here.

Radley has also put together a interactive map on almost 300 examples of botched police raids and their locations, circumstances, deaths/injuries, and aftermath of the raids. Go Here for that interactive map.

The bottom line is police officers, as a general rule, are held blameless when a suspect or innocent is shot during a raid, botched or not, making Mr. Loglis statement the assinine comment of the week.