The most damning part of this USA Today story by Alan Gomez and Daphne Duret on how hard it is to hold police accountable even when they are running wild in plain view might have been the section header reading, “City officials defer to police chiefs, internal investigations”; or maybe the one reading, “Unions help protect police officers from discipline”; if not for the intervening one reading, “‘Shoot first and think later’ approach to policing”. When did USA Today start reporting it like it is?