An acquaintance of mine is a journalist, now newly minted as editor of an online local site. He is a left leaning libertarian. While I am an a conservative mostly libertarian.
He & I can totally sit, hoist a few cocktails, and talk politics. And he is no DUmmy. He posts on Facebook about police abuses often & we have discussed the Ferguson/Baltimore/Trayvon crap & actually agree that they are silly race baiting.
But given my history of living in Chicago, these stories are horrible and sadly I mostly believe them. I truly enjoyed living there, but the police are out of control. Not as much as the west & south side gangs & black on black killings.
Sorry for long post.