Police patience and de-escalation are sorely needed in our overpoliced society where I have witnessed a police officer yelling his head off at a driver who had
apparently innocently misundertstood re-routing instructions, another police officer smirkingly and condescendingly repeating to a scared
man on the ground to «shut up» (here is how my teacher Jun Yasuda would respond to being told to «shut up»), and police on video using excessive force right up to fatally shooting
unarmed suspects who pose little to no harm.