male power and dominance reaches its apotheosis in current policing techniques and power. this article about officer holtzclaw and his getting away with raping vulnerable female arrestees/drug addicts kinda sums up the carte blance cops get:
I think your feeling that the police are our friends, and get a lot of leeway to exercise their testosterone filled rages on alleged perps, is simply buying into, perhaps unconsciously, the dominant male hold on control of women in our society. cops = male power = sexism at its very worst.
