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It takes a certain attitude, bravodo, personality, to be a cop and make cop like decisions that escalate a situation far beyond reality. For this reason, all police forces must be brough under control of someone, or group without said bravado, attitude, personality. Disarmed would be a start. As true servants of the people, they can be at the mercy of those they stop rather than the other way around.

Can you imagine two unarmed policemen busting doors down, instead of politely knocking and presenting a warrant. The public has allowed far to much "progress in the name of law enforcement" and far too many mistakes by those they think are here for protection of the public, when in reality police protect themselves first, and the public if it suits or the situation presents itself.

The public is in need of more serious lessons in what happens when you give government the power to do what it finds unpleasant, and what it doesn't have the stomach to do, and then give them the ever increasing manpower, resources, and budget to do the job. Those dedicated individuals in the police line of work will continue to find plenty of "work", all of it at public expense and some of it not in the public interest.

"We had begged them to shut the car doors so our dogs wouldn't get out, [but] they didn't do that."

Personally, I hope they sue the state to the max. Big jury awards are the only thing that is going to bring these police forces back under control. Money is the only language that politicians and city and state officials understand. They don't give a hoot about the Constitution; but they do understand the bottom line.