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Entry: Good Cops Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/good_cops#24968 Post contents: What is this insistence that cops and their defenders have with calling the people whom they attack "the bad guys"? I mean, if the cops are in the wrong, aren't THEY the "bad guys", or are the "bad guys" always supposed to be the people in the cops' sights? Isn't finding out who the criminals really are the whole point of the inquiry? Are we really three years old who need such sappy, imprecise, infantile words to understand the case? It would be so very nice if, in our contemplation of the law enforcement situation, you could use adult language that treats your readers as capable of nuanced thought, rather than the loaded terms that always gets used by both sides in these discussions. Sometimes the government is the "bad guy". Conservatives used to understand this. I think that period of time when such understanding existed was called "the Clinton presidency". Sent at: 2008 10 13