* Issue: activists focus on police misconduct only, ignoring police heroism.

While I cannot speak for the producers of the show, I can answer with a similar question: why do police focus only on the public's criminal behavior, and never on the public's good deeds?

It's called "focus". We are all only human, with limited time, energy, resources, and hours in the day. So we focus on what we think matters most.

* Issue: when tasers kill, who's at fault?

Someone hands me a gun. They swear to me it's empty. Believing this, I point the gun at an innocent, pull the trigger, and accidentally kill that person.

Police will hold me responsible for that death, and even if they believe my story no amount of "but I was told it was empty!" would get me off the hook for manslaughter as a minimum charge.

Anyone wielding a weapon, is responsible for that weapon and what he makes it do. If they make the mistake of trusting bad information, they have still made that mistake and acted in a manner which directly brought unjustified harm to another.

* Issue: Activists focus too much on police as perpetrators of misconduct and show little interest in other villains

Police criminals are a special form of villain deserving special attention.

They walk in the open, everywhere.

They are all heavily-armed, armored, and equipped.

They outnumber any rival gang.

They are funded and paid out of every civilian's pocket, in exchange for accepting an obligation to protect and serve.

They are given access to vast amounts of information on us, most of which we are forced to provide under penalty of punishment.

Given these factors, police criminals are the most dangerous of any criminal element in America. Crimes by police are also significant, in that they are more than a violation of the laws of America and of common courtesy.

They are also a violation of the special trust and extra freedom granted them, and of the oath of obligation they have taken.

Police, as criminals and as members of a criminal organization, are also the dominant crime gang in America. They are #1, top of the food chain. No other gang can compete, nor dares to try on such scale. Other crime gangs are reduced to hit and run, hide and seek tactics.

If child-molesting priests were to exceed police in these respects, then no doubt activists would focus on the priesthood instead.

Understand one more thing. When activists give special attention to police misconduct, it is not merely that misconduct which interests us. There is a greater issue that also motivates us.

Unfortunately by focusing on police misconduct, we draw attention from this greater issue. But we focus thus because there has proven no adequate means to address the greater issue.

That issue being the crimes commited daily by police everywhere, in enforcing UNJUST LAWS.

Racism was once codified as law, and police enforced it. This enforcement was a violation of inalienable human rights (invoked, though not established, by the US Constitution).

"I was just doing my job" doesn't cut it, whether you're working for the Nazi Party, a Mexican drug cartel, or the local PD.

Police commit crimes (in the general sense of the word) against innocent civilians every day of the week. Most of these crimes are completely legal.

This legalization exists due to a mix of ignorance, apathy, and various ethical sicknesses in our society's leaders, and the voting and non-voting public. We are currently unable to correct this legalization, and thus find ourselves at the mercy of crusaders in blue uniforms who don't see the criminality of their behavior, or just don't care ("Just doing my job").

Police do the same, you know. Unable to pin anything to a known crime leader, they readily admit to focusing on anything they can. Traffic tickets, car registration, jaywalking, anything to apply pressure to their adversary whom they believe to be guilty of far greater sins but through clever means evades their accountability.

Activists, knowing police to be guilty of far greater sins, likewise apply whatever pressure they can at whatever vulnerabilities we can find.

We activists are no different from you police, in that regard. Such is the paradox of applying force vs appealing to reason. Both sides believe we are right, and both believe the end justifies our current favored means.

Such is the ongoing struggle of man against man, trying to stop what we see as unacceptable behavior.