Re: "Cop pleads guilty to assault," Wednesday, Jan. 25.

Besides the physical abuse, I also find myself concerned about cases of members of police forces and other lawenforcement units - especially those in the intense and often-overkill emergency response teams - who are gratuitously aggressive with some (usually) male civilians.

The most extreme of the "law enforcers" storm into crime suspects' homes, screaming, with fully-automatic machine guns or handguns drawn, at the homes' occupants (to "face down!"), all of whom, including infants, can be permanently traumatized from the experience.

And on some occasions, these "law enforcers" force their way into the wrong home altogether.

I'm convinced that some of these (mostly) men get into such fields of employment for the sheer power trip of it all.

Frank G. Sterle, Jr. White Rock