Do these videos look like they’re illustrating the reality of combatting criminality?
From where I’m standing, they look like highly-staged pieces of propaganda.
Discussion
Yes, of course they’re propaganda and I’m mostly disturbed that they’re obviously designed like that to appeal to people’s bloodlust. Many people must be turned on by that stuff.
At the same time, there are brutal criminals doing terrible things to people, and the methods for handling them can’t be pretty.
I have mixed feelings about all of it.