We can make too much of small injustices and petty incivilities.

Police business is not gentle business.

The officers are trying to prevent you and me from being knocked on the head some dark night or from being chloroformed in our beds.

Ten thousand men are trying to do a thirty-thousand-man job.

The struggle to keep the peace and put down crime is a hard one anywhere.
It requires a strong arm that cannot show too punctilious a regard for theoretical rights when prompt decisions have to be made and equally prompt action taken.