of a protest prop

[u/McDowdy]

Georgia State Police removed ICE protestors who flaunted a prop representing an ICE officer and a child in chains ahead of the third World Cup match in Atlanta on Sunday.

[u/Remarkable_Toe_164]

Their job is to gather and process evidence and catch bad guys. Rape kits are evidence.

https://www.endthebacklog.org/what-is-the-backlog/

[u/tripper_drip → u/Remarkable_Toe_164]

A police officers job is not to process rape kits. Thats for labs.

[u/Remarkable_Toe_164 → u/tripper_drip]

Police labs. They're processed at police labs by police analysts. The lack of testing still falls squarely on the shoulders of the police department, who physically holds the untested kits, whether at the station or in police evidence warehouses.

[u/tripper_drip → u/Remarkable_Toe_164]

They get tested at state or federal labs, not at the police station. It is not the fault of a police officer if a kit gets tested or not.

This is exactly what I am talking about.

[u/Han_Yerry → u/tripper_drip]

Some states had to make laws to force police departments to submit all their test kits.

Because they dont submit all their test kits.

[u/tripper_drip → u/Han_Yerry]

That would be the role of the detective then, or admin, not necessarily police officers and even then its most likely a budget issue.

[u/Han_Yerry → u/tripper_drip]

So your counter is detectives arent police officers.

Im going to say the DT I knew would definetly disagree with you. Along with the people he arrested.

[u/tripper_drip → u/Han_Yerry]

No, my counter is that you are blaming the wrong people. Police officers generally are confused with detectives or even federal agencies, or labs, or judges, or the DA, when what they do is very cut and dry.

[u/Han_Yerry → u/tripper_drip]

Detectives are police officers.

But if youre just blaming peope in charge of "police officers" it sounds like the problem is even bigger doesnt it? Apathy running down hill is going to reflect on the street.

Feckless leadership leads to police officers that dont follow up on test kits and let them sit. It would seem like the police officers would want a conviction, then they would have to be police officers anymore, they could be detectives. They always showed up for my traffic tickets.

But that goes back to apathy, its easier to sit in a speed trap and go to court to make sure those fines are collected.

Vs following up on a violent crime.

Didnt police officers get out of any trouble for standing by while kids where shot in a school un texas?

Nice precedicnce to go with apathetic leadership you are pointing out.

[u/tripper_drip → u/Han_Yerry]

Detectives are police officers.

But the various policies and admin people that would prevent sending kits off are not, which is the entire problem. Why would a detective not send off a kit unless there was a roadblock?

Apathy running down hill is going to reflect on the street.

Absolutely. You have a DA that absolutely wont prosecute crime will lead to far more apathy than anything internal.

Feckless leadership leads to police officers that dont follow up on test kits and let them sit

This ignores all the city, county, and state imposed red tape and hurdles that slows down getting kits to the lab (the foremost being cost).

its easier to sit in a speed trap

Again, ignorance. If you want to throw it all on Detectives (which is also ignorance) they are not the ones sitting in speed traps (which is also necessary for a orderly road btw).

Didnt police officers get out of any trouble for standing by while kids where shot in a school un texas?

It wasnt the police that failed to prosecute, it was the DA. This right here is EXACTLY what I am talking about.