In the continuing furor that is Ferguson, Missouri, someone is finally asking, „Won‘t anyone think of the poor police officers?“ Naturally, the person raising this question is a police officer — a 17-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department. And the question isn‘t so much being raised as it is being thrown in the reader‘s face.

Sunil Dutta wants to make a point about the difficulties faced by police officers every day. But he does so by boiling down his argument to little more than, „Shut your mouth or I‘ll beat your ass.“ Dutta begins by stating the obvious: