SYMPATHY AND SKEPTICISM GREET GUILTY POLICE OFFICERS

Re: Six officers plead guilty to Stanley Park beatings, Nov. 25

The article answers the questions what happened, where and when. Perhaps
"why" would have been more appropriate.

Under no circumstances am I defending the actions of these officers; what
they did was wrong. But the answer to why they did what they did might be
rooted in the treatment of drug dealers by our courts whereby they are
arrested, charged and back on the street within 24 hours. How frustrating
for the police.

Howard Thomson, Vancouver