This is why I HATE NPR

[bhikkhu]

38. Good distinction - good people protest against behaviors, not people themselves

unless they're wingers who are convinced that problems are the people themselves, and deny that there choice and change can change behaviors and lives.

I got into that with the kids fairly often when they were younger, where they'd done something wrong and, being called on it, they would say "you think I'm a terrible person now" or "now you just hate me". It would always be an explanation of how you can love a person but hate the behavior, and that any person can chose to behave in a good or bad way. People's responses are to behavior, and there's nothing better than seeing someone change and decide to behave well. Any 5 year old is capable of that; I don't think its unreasonable to ask our police to think a bit and do the same.

And, yes, NPR does disappoint fairly often, in very aggravating ways where they really should know better.