Are Mass Police Held to the Same Standards of Justice That "We The People" Are?

Some people believe race was the problem in Crowley's arrest of Gates. Others see the problem as wider that just race.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/opinions/letters/x2015101779/Letter-Gates-arrest-shows-white-privilege

In How Do We Build Community? Hope and Healing, I discuss the very issue of inclusion, including race and disability. One of the most amazing things about the Gates Crowley story is the way the MSM has once again glossed ovet the disability of Prof Gates. I am sure that "people" do not believe that disability had anything to do with this, at all. In fact, by brushing this issue aside, we cannot even examine it. Worse, most folks do not even know. Why? Are we afraid of the truth? Mark J is right when he suposes that race may not the be-all behind the "unfortunate" arrest of an innocent disabled black Prof at his home at Harvard in Cambridge.

http://fromtheport.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-do-we-build-community-hope-and.html

Obama's speach on "race" provides us with real insight into what the barrier of attitude is, and how it handicaps us.

The attitude that I see here in Cambridge MA, and throughout MA, is the police are not held to the same standards of human behavior that the "citizenry are held to. Police that commit felonys are "diciplined" but continue to "serve" without the support and trust of "we the people."
Like in Hamilton, Danvers and Cambridge, there is the "hurry up and move on" attitude that only enables police mis behavior. One cannot but wonder if the AG's marraige to a Cambridge Police officer, now retired, "colours" her "perceptions?" I cannot imagine that these same crimes, when committed by ordinary people, would not be prosecuted by Coakley to the fullest extent of the law. Why then does she coddle police who cannot or will not obey the laws we all are supposed to live under? How can we trust police who themselves have no respect for the law?

http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_214234459.html

(Be sure to read the comments, which is where you will see the divid between the view of the people and the view of the AG. And this case is not about race, but that does not mean that in the gates Crowley arrest that race was not a factor. Surely there can be more than one factors when police abuse their power, and then lie about it.)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/05/town_of_hamilton_moves_on_from_police_scandal/

Sweeping things under the rug, often referred to as "moving on" or "putting this behind us" is just another way of avoiding the lessons we need to learn, and changing our attitudes. It is just another way to continue our denial. We are creeping into a police state, and the police more and more behave like an occupying force.

"Under the terms of an agreement brokered through Attorney General Martha Coakley's office, the officers will keep their jobs, but each will have to work 30 days without pay, take an additional 30 days off without pay and pay a $5,000 fine to the town.

Like the officers in Hamilton, the Danvers officers faced criminal prosecution if they did not accept their punishment."http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_216000258.html

I fail to see how minority communities can trust a system that repetedly exonerates police who commit felonies yet continue with one arrest without probable cause after another, with the judge throwing cases out one after the other, but with innocent folks ending up with coris, while the police who lie and commit purgery walk away scott free. I am a membey of the so called white privleges class, but I myself can no longer trust police in the State of Mass, as long as their enabler is enthroned in the office of the AG.