Extra judicial punishment has been in place for a vary long time. In the early 1900s, many police agencies engaged in the "third degree", severely beating suspects in order to extract confessions. These incidents received widespread publicity in the 1930s, and the practice was curtailed. Water boarding was extensively used as well as a tool to get suspect to confess; the Bush, Jr., administration did not invent this practice. It was extensively used during the Philippine Insurrection, far more intensely and less restrictively than in the Iraqi and Afghan wars. These tactics were brought home to police agencies.
As long as there are criminals, police, and lenient judges, these practices will continue.
Just because it has been done for a long time doesn't justify it or make it legal.
It's up to citizens to put a stop to extra-judicial punishments.
It's not up to us to justify it.
/johnny
No, as long as some jobs attract low quality individuals that management doesn’t supervise properly, then corruption, theft, bribery, and abuse of prisoners will take place.