He rejected the idea that it was part of the court's function to protect police officers who were, or thought they might be, acting in breach of police discipline regulations from coming to the attention of their superiors.
"I do not accept that it is part of the court's function to protect police officers who are, or think they may be, acting in breach of police discipline regulations from coming to the attention of superiors," said the judge.
Over and over again we heard the same story: of discipline regulations differentially applied, never being picked to answer a question; teachers with no understanding of their pupils' cultural background, favouritism of white children above black children; blatant and covert racism.
Officials with the Baltimore city public schools did not return repeated requests for comment on Perry's remarks, on students left in suspension limbo, and on whether the district feels it has adequately implemented the state's discipline regulations.
For too long, this government, in eight years, has followed a right-wing ideology of anything goes, no supervision, no discipline, no regulation.
They are going to run on the same economic themes they have been running on (if not always governing by) for decades: low taxes, fiscal discipline, less regulation, free trade.
At least since the Reagan revolution of the early nineteen-eighties, free-market ideology has been ascendant, with even Democratic Administrations following its precepts of market discipline, limited regulation, and unfettered rewards.
On paper, shuanggui is a process of internal discipline and regulation within the Party; in practice it's a vast, brutal, extra-legal interrogative system into which people disappear, without recourse, for weeks or months at a time.
Even in the absence of market discipline, self-regulation could work if institutions had strong internal safeguards against corruption.
Admissions tutor Dipak Kanabar says applicants can come from any hard science discipline – EU regulations mean the course can no longer take graduates from non-science backgrounds.
