Exposing home addresses and wife is uncool. Leave the home and family out of it.
If the police are protected under a clause of "just following orders", then the home addresses shouldn't be shown. Neither should individual policemen be called out. Rather the system is at fault, and the law makers behind it.
If the police are morally at fault, then this extends past their work-life sphere. If you kill and abuse at work and that is considered immoral, you are not simply allowed to go home and claim sanctuary.
In the view of Lulzsec, there are two sides---we the people, and they the State. Revealing the information of the officers to the people is analogous to the FBI keeping records of the names and known addresses of who they consider criminals.
The documented racial profiling, however, is could be properly termed 'abusive'.
The police code of never admitting an officer committed a crime is itself a crime, and one of the worst.
2) WL still isn't accepting submissions until DDB hands back their database.
That said, the statement, however, may not be completely relevant to this particular story.
> one of the means employed by tyrannical states
On the other hand, we're starting to see the opposite happen. People in positions of power who abuse their authority (e.g., police) are starting to be targeted by regular people whose lives they interfere with.
Have a Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/MySpace/whatever account? Your personal information, friends, family, work history, etc. are available to the people you bully. Your actions have social consequences whether they're totally legal or not.
"I'm just doing my job" doesn't cut it when your job affects other people in a negative way.
AZ is the state where a guy died doing his job in a photo radar vehicle. He was shot by a guy who felt the man in the vehicle was "the government". These families and homes are now targets.
Just because something is legal does not make it ethical.