The cops are jerks and all the crazy one way streets and blockades make it a bitch to drive there. I prefer to be a mole and use the subway and pop up out of the ground where I need to go.

One time I was driving home from a meeting in DC and a cop walked out in front of me and yelled at me to stop so he could meet his friends having coffee at a cafe across the street. What an ass. The cops there suck. Egotistical gun toting bastards. The ones on the horses are the worse. They think they are John Wayne.

I lived off 14th St NW and always worked around Dupont Circle. Rode the 14th St bus through years of subway construction, only to have the stations open after I left. Got sick of the bus. Started walking to work. Still took the bus home uphill, though.

Driving in DC certainly did suck. Just freaking horrible. When I first got there, I was amazed and appalled at the ambulances with their wailing sirens and flashing lights creeping at 3 mph through the stalled traffic. But then I got used to it.

And the cops were total assholes. They'd stop in their cars to chat with each other, blocking traffic in both directions. Couldn't give a fuck.

I knew it was time to leave DC when I started getting road rage just walking around Dupont Circle. Plus, after we saw the smoke rising from the Pentagon that September morning, my partner decided she didn't want to stick around any longer.

Let this investigation also open a window into the broader question of police use of lethal force.

But at the same time I hope the investigation isn't going to simply look to blame the officers involved. People were talking about DC cops, but these were not DC cops they were Capital Police and Secret Service.

Police tend to always use overwhelming force and when weapons are used they empty their guns, even when there is no clear indication that the suspect is armed. Given existing policy I highly doubt that any officers will be disciplined given what transpired at the first stop where she backed hard into a Secret Service vehicle, causing a number of officers to scramble out of the way to avoid being run over by this crazed driver. But the one criticism I had when I first saw this unfold is why none of the officers attempted to shoot out her tires. They did shoot at her car as she sped away.

No details have been released that would impact appropriate police action. For instance, was her vehicle disabled at the site where she was killed and did the officers have reason to believe that was the case. Was she injured by the impact when her car was rammed. How was she behaving and how could that be viewed as life threatening to the officers. We simply have to withhold judgment until these and other questions have been fully answered. And independent review is definitely called for.

Somehow european police rarely shoot and kill unarmed people. I wonder why that is?

Hopefully this study isn't just a perfunctory set up with the purpose of clearing the officers but a real investigation of the people involved.