I am afraid that this just one of the by-products of the misplaced attitude that "it's us against them". The "us" being the police, the "them" being the civilian population. But these are not the only ones who promote this bias within the community. It is also alive and well in our local human service agencies. In the era of outcome-based measures of service accountability, the focus in measuring results is generally directed at the population group served. While little attention and even fewer resources are given to educating, training, or setting standards of practice within the ranks. This is becoming even more of an issue with the rise of private nonprofit groups. My point is that if these groups promote the biased principles (principles = values put into action) from within these human / social service agencies, then it serves to promote abhorrent behavior from those targeted groups these agencies are mandated to serve. The easiest groups to victimize are those who don't have the socio-political resources to make a stand let alone be heard. But at the same time, we pour in millions to "provide interventions" "to empower" and "build capacity" within the populations served. It reminds me of the Christians of old. They were so very arrogant in looking to make others Christian that they themselves became the most unchristian and hundreds of thousands paid deeply for it. Where is the oversight for quality control within these groups? Ron Makaruk Ward 06