Fully agree.
It's weird, I used to live there in Carlsbad. It was a while ago but it's totally not the kind of place I would have expected this kind of juvenile shit to go down. It's an indication of how far this Warrior Mentality where police see themselves as a paramilitary force fighting against the people has permeated the subculture.
I fully agree with that assessment.
At some point in the recent past, owing to an increase in police fatalities and injuries, it was decided that the priority factor in police performance was
officer safety. That concern gave rise to various new
procedures used by police in dealing with arrest subjects. While some of these procedures are necessary when dealing with subjects who are resisting arrest their use has become not only routine but quite often unnecessarily employed and exaggerated in their application. In fact, these
procedures have evolved into a convenient means of brutalizing subjects who are fully cooperative and are not resisting in the least.
This excessive use of force is readily observable in many of the arrest incidents seen in most episodes of the TV "ride-along" documentary series,
COPS. This systematic abuse is not something which is commonly observed by the average citizen but its cumulative effect is a contributing factor in much of the rage exhibited in some recent riotous anti-police demonstrations.