Here's some video of the arrest of the Princeton Professor

She was speeding, had a warrant and was arrested

It is what it is.

like this one, we'd all be a lot better off. He seemed like a nice guy since he tried to make her as comfortable as possible with the situation.

They told her what was going on, told her why she was being arrested, had to be handcuffed, said she could make phone calls and texts once they got to the police station, etc. These officers acted the way I would expect them to.

"...although the department released footage of the arrest, it has declined to release video of the episode from inside the police station."

video of this woman handcuffed to the table is not going to look good.

I know they don't like to make exceptions because you never know who is going to end up going psycho, but it seems like some common sense could be used here.

why would they make an exception for anyone?

but it does seem like people brought in for traffic violations with no criminal background aren't much of a threat.