It's a sickening, recurring pattern in Baltimore: A citizen is arrested and while transporting the so-called suspect to the police precinct for booking, he gets the stuffing beat out of him. To further rub salt in the wound, the cops are ultimately exonerated from any wrongdoing ("Investigation of Baltimore police officer continues," April 11).
That pathetic, lamentable cycle has to cease and cease immediately.
What exactly has happened to the helpless subjects between the time of their arrest and the time they arrive at the police station? Perhaps the time has come for cameras to be placed in any police vehicle where a suspect is transported to a station or precinct.
A few city cops obviously have a nasty, even bitter, aura about them, putting themselves above the law by brutalizing defenseless subjects. It's that Neanderthal mind-set that prohibits Baltimore's men and women in blue from moving forward, and away, from police brutality for good.
As always, it is a very small percentage of rogue cops who besmirch the overall image we have of those we entrust to enforce and abide by the law. The scofflaw cops must be eradicated from the BCPD. It's time to weed out the Neanderthal ones. It should have been done many years ago.
Patrick R. Lynch, Nottingham