I'm amazed – no, stunned – that the author does not seem to realize the utter degeneracy of the outlook presented in the above statement. Look at what it says:

"Concern over police brutality is delusional. At least the police don't kill as many people as the criminals".

In the author's "stone-cold reality", police performance is to be judged in comparison to drug-dealers, gang-bangers, and other killers. Thankfully, other realities don't suffer from such low expectations. I hope this doesn't shock anyone, but the job of police is law enforcement: they are SUPPOSED to behave better than criminals, because the state grants them extraordinary powers (and pays them with your taxes). This is the assumption underlying both the Bill of Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which limit police seizure of home and person. In other realities, the standard for judging the performance of your local police is to compare them with police elsewhere. When I did that in 2008 (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/16/18493396.php), I found that while the US murder rate during 2003-2005 was 3.7-4.2 times higher than that of Australia and UK, the US police killing rate was 4.1-74 times higher and, despite a population less than 5 times the UK, killings by US police in 2004 were over 120 times the number killed by UK police. And the ultra-violence of US police is likely to only get worse as long as "progressive" voices claim that there is something wrong with expecting better, that there is something wrong with expecting that the job of police is to reduce threats to safety – not to amplify the climate of fear.