An Officer Had Backup: Secret Tapes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/nyregion/whistle-blower-police-officer-had-backup-secret-recordings.html

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:31 AM
Subject: re: An Officer Had Backup: Secret Tapes
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  If officer Schoolcraft's allegations are proven, mayor Bloomberg has tolerated a Stalinist horror in our own midst.  In order to live in society, we as individuals have surrendered a monopoly on violence to the state and her police. If those police behave lawlessly, society itself breaks down.  This case deserves all the city's resources in the full light of day, for the credibility of the police, for the sake of all citizens and for civilization itself.

Barry Haskell Levine