Thread: Police abuse in movies

I think its pretty ordinary that cops and heroes beat the crap out of the bad guys to get whatever information they want (e.g. Dark Knight)
It's also common to see other sorts of breaking the rules for a good cause.
This is often portrayed as the right thing to do.
(All my opinion of course)

Do you agree with me?
What do you think of this? Do you think these scenes encourage real people to do that?
Is that a good thing?

Personally I think its crap. The prohibition against using violence in interrogation is there for a very good reason. It undermines everyones right to a trial. Also research shows that people will say what they think the interrogaters want to hear, truth or not.