The Hey bingersers welcome back so I'm just going to jump straight into it today. There are many decent men and

women who are drawn to law enforcement for the right reasons to protect and

serve their communities to maintain law and order to pursue and facilitate justice.

But there are also many who are drawn to law enforcement for all of the wrong reasons.

Chief Amongst, which is becoming a cop is a shortcut to power.

For the narcissistic, for the sociopathic, for bullies and abusers, becoming a cop is the quickest and easiest, most direct route to having absolute

power over other human beings.

And because police have been, at least theory among the most trusted members of the community,

they're the authorities and cops have often been given the benefit of the doubt in many situations. A bad apple, as they call them, who abuses

this trust and power is one of the most frightening character types. How helpless we become, how little recourse we have when we're at the mercy of a bad

guy in a police uniform. And there are some people who need a badge and a gun to feel like they

have any power in this world and when they get that

power they become drunk on it.

It doesn't really feel like there's an easy fix and there's certainly been no worse time to be a cop in America if indeed you are a

decent cop but fortunately the widespread use of technologies like dashcams and

bodycams is helping keep more cops in check and

bring swifter and more certain accountability to the ones who are bad.

Perhaps if the police had a

a body cams back in 1992, today's story would have had a different outcome, or at least a less

drawn out conclusion. The truth of what unfolded one summer night in 1992 became quite evident the more closely these events were scrutinized

It was 1230 a.m. in Harris County, Texas in the earliest morning hours of August 25,

1992. Three deputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Department were on their

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