But...but...but...these events are limited to a very small subset of officers.
They wouldn’t *possibly* defend this.
< /sarc >
"They" might not, but it has been interesting in my few eight years on FR to watch the procession of badgelickers that do defend this behavior. Some of the worst that I remember screen names for are still around but have stopped defending the indefensible. They also do not post so much now.
There seems to be a new crop now to take up the torch nightstick.