Rambo Police

I don't know who told American police that they are supposed to behave like Rambo - smashing down doors, tasering a 68-year-old retiree who is yelling that he's okay and telling them to go away, handcuffing and arresting a 7-year-old girl because she was out of control in a primary school room - the examples are too numerous to be treated as aberrations.
Are American police being so routinely trained to go after the Taliban and al-Qaida and they forget that in most American cities these terrorists just don't exist - and certainly not in the form of 7-year-old girls and 68-year-old ex-Marines. Their gear looks like something out of a recent computer-generated action film and their actions follow suit.
And, I also don't know who has told the media that the police are only doing their job and trying to prevent being sued later if they don't follow the Rambo techniques right up to causing the death of a citizen.
Well...I probably could make a good guess who is responsible for the police violence and over-reacting that precipitates the media's explanations. It is undoubtedly the justice system - lawyers who are trying to adjust their advice to court rulings that defy common sense. I can say that because I'm a lawyer. And lawyers are as honorable as the next guy, but something has gotten way out of balance.
Was it the Miranda ruling that gives suspects the right to remain silent or was it the brutality of some of the modern gulag style killings by deranged outlaws who ought to be in prison and out of society's view forever or was it simply the fact that modern warfare and the high tech equipment that goes with it has made police more dangerous, sometimes, than the suspects they are pursuing?
I don't know the answer, and I'm sure you don't either.
But, I do know that no 7-year-old girl ought to handcuffed and arrested - never - not for any reason. Children who misbehave - even violently - can be subdued by adults - police if the school administrators and teachers are afraid to act for fear of being sued.
And, I know that a 68-year-old man was terrorized, tasered, and killed because he had been ill and thought he needed medical help. What he got was a SWAT team looking for bin Laden - and like bin Laden - he was gunned down, not as bin Laden was, correctly, by troops who were looking for the terrorist and found him. The American was gunned down by a domestic bunch of armed hoodlums who don't know the difference between helping someone in need and going after a terrorist.
Something needs to be done, and quickly.