Guantanamo Comes to Main Street USA: Woman Stripped and Abused at Local Jail by 7 Deputies

I agree that police brutality has always existed; for some communities more than others - and perhaps the "new direction" can also be attributed to the rise of citizen documentation, the webs, you tube etc - but I would argue that the Gitmo/torture culture has always existed too. It has been supersized and put on steroids for sure during the Bush administration - and now we have open source exchange, global citizen news communities, and cooperative research via the webs exposing this stuff.

I also think that this brutality is attributable to more than simple "human error". A top-down hyper-armed culture of fear and abuse, sanctioned and performed with immunity and impunity at the highest levels, has a heck of a lot to do with turning simple human weakness into systemic atrocity. Milgram. The Nazis. It feeds and breeds it.

A better system of education, accountability & responsibility might go a long way in correcting and preventing some of the inevitable cases of stress-related abuses; and citizens need to counterbalance police force crime with a deterrent of our own: holding public officials accountable.

... and I think there is a deeper problem with the nature of power itself. Don't feed that beast. The national/corporate security state, as it grows, is feeding and nourishing in kind...