article_snippet.sent: Police, trying to save Police last weekend, were blamed both for doing too little and for doing too much.
article_snippet.sent: (And forced testimony can't be used in prosecution; police officers too have constitutional rights as criminal defendants.)
article_snippet.sent: If there are criminally guilty cops, police have no problem with justice.
article_snippet.sent: So is the police commissioner.
article_snippet.sent: Ultimately police are in a no-win situation.
article_snippet.sent: And when things go wrong, police go wrong fast.
article_snippet.sent: Sometimes -- not very often -- it's the police officer's fault.
article_snippet.sent: Yes, bad cops need to be punished.
article_snippet.sent: And then when a cop makes a mistake, as one inevitably will, our jump on all police with a confident smugness and unbecoming glee.
highlights_snippet.sent: Peter Moskos: When man died in police custody, many unfairly blamed all Baltimore cops.
highlights_snippet.sent: But cops are in a no-win situation .
  