When the police give an assaulted cyclist a warning

[Jdsk]

This I believe occurs when some people see others as "different" and for some bizarre reason feel either threatened by them...

Yes. This is the psychological substrate on which many sorts of discrimination, dislike, hatred and violence are built.

But it isn't inevitable.

I recommend Pinkers' Better Angels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature

Jonathan

[iandusud]

This I believe occurs when some people see others as "different" and for some bizarre reason feel either threatened by them...

Yes. This is the psychological substrate on which many sorts of discrimination, dislike, hatred and violence are built.

But it isn't inevitable.

I recommend Pinkers' Better Angels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature

Jonathan

As you say it isn't inevitable and it therefore particularly galling when it is prevalent in the police force who's job it is to see that justice prevails.