"Today's (Friday's) NY Times has a front page story headlined, ""Judge Says Police Violated Rules In Videotaping Public Gatherings."" This sentence appears in the article:

""In recent years, police officers have disguised themselves as protesters, shouted feigned objections when uniformed officers were making arrests, and pretended to be mourners at a memorial event for bicycle riders killed in traffic accidents.""

I defy anyone to come up with a more morally bankrupt, more despicable, more contemptible, more obscene use of police other than to authorize or excuse their brutality."