Clearly on the defensive, the police seemed determined not to say too much.
Since Ferguson, no organization has been more defensive of police practices and hostile to reform than the SLPOA.
Briefly on the defensive, the police officers waded in, nightsticks swinging, and overwhelmed the crowd in a melee that lasted about 15 minutes.
In such quarters of our nation, where men seem as likely to have contact with the criminal justice system as with the public education system, citizens often find themselves on the defensive with police.
Goff says part of the reason it's hard to get more standardized and aggregated data is that cops are defensive; "Holding police accountable for that information has always been the job of people whose job it is to say I don't like the police".
The whole story is worth reading, and it includes a defensive Ohio police chief who told the paper, "The money I spent on Sparkles the Clown is a very, very minute portion of the forfeited money that I spend in fighting the war on drugs".
Officials from the city of Ferguson, Missouri, appeared slow and defensive after a police killing led to mass protests.
Robert Reiss, 55, a protester who grew up in Murray Hill, Manhattan, said out-of-town protesters became defensive because the police did not properly communicate that bomb scares, particularly in Lower Manhattan, are fairly commonplace.
The criticism highlighted how hard it has been for Mr. Obama to find the right balance in his relationship with law enforcement, with civil rights activists always ready to criticize him as being too lax about police practices and with the police themselves defensive about being singled out.
The disclosures come as police chiefs, on the defensive over damaging revelations of undercover police officers in the protest movement, privately claim that there are more corporate spies in protest groups than undercover police officers.
