where I react negatively to how the protagonists are exerting power over or invading the privacy of a suspect, patient, client, etc.
I don't know about you, but I think discussions over how law enforcement treats civilians has really made it bothersome to me, even more so than before. There's this idea that law enforcement has every right to invade people's privacy "for the greater good", and unfortunately, I actually do think that affects responses to real-life violations.
The same is true of physical violence. For instance, police officers (on a show) will tackle a "suspect" to the ground, probably causing at least some amount of injury, and then they'd be like "oops, it's not McVillain, he's just wearing the same color jacket." That's actually not okay. I always think, what if that person had chronic pain, and they just got set back several weeks? Or PTSD? There's also no reason to do that.
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I don't know about you, but I think discussions over how law enforcement treats civilians has really made it bothersome to me, even more so than before. There's this idea that law enforcement has every right to invade people's privacy "for the greater good", and unfortunately, I actually do think that affects responses to real-life violations.
The same is true of physical violence. For instance, police officers (on a show) will tackle a "suspect" to the ground, probably causing at least some amount of injury, and then they'd be like "oops, it's not McVillain, he's just wearing the same color jacket." That's actually not okay. I always think, what if that person had chronic pain, and they just got set back several weeks? Or PTSD? There's also no reason to do that.