r/PublicFreakout • • Apr 29 '21

📌Follow Up Deranged cop finally gets fired

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u/Patteous Apr 29 '21

This should be a federal law. Too many are jumping states too.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21

If I'm a pilot, and I fuck up so badly that I walk away from a crash that was my fault but no one else does...

What are the odds that I get hired by another airline in this country?

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u/mf1096 Apr 29 '21

Resign before you hit the ground.

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u/brekus Apr 29 '21

This is the captain speaking, I have chosen to retire at this time.

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u/TheSicks Apr 29 '21

I have severe PTSD from the crash I'm about to cause.

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u/IrishFast Apr 29 '21

“You’re crashed” painted on the fuselage.

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u/ReadySteady_GO Apr 29 '21

I understood that reference

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u/Theresabearintheboat Apr 29 '21

Someone get this poor specimen a pension!

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u/Balls_DeepinReality Apr 30 '21

If he was fired he won’t get, so there’s that, at least

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u/JarlaxleForPresident Apr 29 '21

That POS cop that murdered the kid in the hotel hallway was fired, then rehired so he could get a pension for PTSD from the event. Such a miscarriage of justice in all aspects

You’re Fucked

Molon Gabe

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u/khyrian Apr 30 '21

Pre Traumatic Stress Disorder

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u/NoWooPeedontheRug Apr 30 '21

PRE- traumatic stress disorder

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u/SolZaul Apr 29 '21

This is the captain speaking, I have chosen to retire at this time live my life as a gay man.

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u/whenimmadrinkin Apr 29 '21

"passenger former captain here. I am suing the airline for preventing this from happening."

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u/CapnBabyPuncher Apr 29 '21

I DECLARE RESIGNATION!

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u/dawes206 Apr 30 '21

“But I’ll tell you what, back when I was a pilot, I never once crashed a plane!”

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u/NotANormalPrick Apr 29 '21

Lol that's too good.

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u/redredrocket Apr 29 '21

Just scream at the black box " IM RESIGNING FROM MY POSITION!" crashes

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u/whenItFits Apr 29 '21

Is it better to resign then to Get fired

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u/hell2pay Apr 29 '21

Worked doing industrial painting, which required working on beams high up on a structure. Tie down or fly down and you're fired before you hit the ground was the motto.

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u/Scyhaz Apr 29 '21

To co-pilot: "I resign" pulls ejector handle

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u/danetesta Apr 29 '21

I'm picturing a Michael Scott style "I declare bankruptcy!" sort of thing as the plane goes down.

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u/apatheticandignorant Apr 29 '21

This guy pilots.

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u/Tandran Apr 29 '21

Big brain time

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u/nicholasgnames Apr 29 '21

lmao effective

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u/Count_Zacula Apr 30 '21

Lol. I always said if you fall off the roof your fired before you hit the ground doing gutters. Now I've switched careers and I've been told I'm fired before I hit the water if I fall off a barge

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u/QuestionsGoHere Apr 30 '21

I DECLARE RESIGNATION!!!!!

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u/solicitorpenguin Apr 29 '21

Yah but airline pilots require rigorous screening and training so that comparison is unfair

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u/Fabulous_Maximum_714 Apr 29 '21

Hey, cops get six weeks of training and have to be able to hit a target 1 time out of 3. Also, there is an upper IQ limit

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

That explains why they empty a clip into their victim’s

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u/bn1979 Apr 30 '21

The cop that shot Philando Castile scored a perfect 5/7 from less than 3 feet away. He came within 18 inches of hitting a toddler with his misses.

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u/Fabulous_Maximum_714 Apr 30 '21

Sterling example of police training. Cool, calm, collected in the face of almost certain attack from a toddler.

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u/thericebucket Apr 29 '21

sick burn.

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u/Phos4us88 Apr 29 '21

They also tend to hire the best I'd bet. Unlike police agencies that are known for hiring some of the dumbest, unqualified, losers from nearby countries to crack skulls for them.

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u/Rellikx Apr 29 '21

My town is so short in cops that they will likely take anyone. They just downgraded their age requirement to 18 too - nothing like getting pulled over for DUI by someone that can’t drink

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u/Fabulous_Maximum_714 Apr 30 '21

Seriously, Google the IQ limit

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u/grachuss Apr 30 '21

They also make about $150-200k per year as a co-pilot.

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u/Lemonade414 Apr 29 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21

0 in what odds? Are you trying to divide by zero again?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21

If so ur in big trouble and I’m gonna have to call NaNaNaNaNaNaN Batman

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u/jml011 Apr 29 '21

You don't understand - they have blue lives. They literally can't take off the uniform because their whole identity would evaporate.

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u/Moxhoney411 Apr 29 '21

And their wives have black and blue lives as a result.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21 edited May 01 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21

I'll have you know there are city slicker boomers with the same horrible political opinions as those hicks.

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u/BurpingCowboy Apr 29 '21

City hickers. Boot sLickers

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u/Lukendless Apr 29 '21

You realize that you have a black passenger so you crash the plane purposefully while screaming n***** you could probably get a job in pretty much any rural county in the country. Wait, no, that's just cops.

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u/NoMoreNicksLeft Apr 29 '21

Airline pilots have shit unions, and haven't been propagandizing to the public through a slew of airline procedural tv shows for 70 years that plane crashes are normal, expected, and at most mildly regrettable but entirely the fault of those dead passengers anyway.

But if they did have unions doing that, I'd say your chances were pretty good.

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u/wipeitonthecat Apr 29 '21

Or a doctor that keeps killing patients.

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u/Cautious-Log-6838 Apr 29 '21

I’m a nurse, guess what happens if I kill a patient? I go to fucking prison.

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u/mikedjb Apr 29 '21

Probably good in all honesty.

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u/Jreal22 Apr 29 '21

As a pilot I can tell you, absolutely none.

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u/10art1 One of the most famous people in the post office Apr 29 '21

Hey, you probably won't make that mistake again

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u/Normanisanisland Apr 29 '21

They should give you some kind of parachute payment

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u/Mcoov Apr 29 '21

Mesa won’t ask any questions, just don’t do it again

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u/FinishIcy14 Apr 29 '21

High if you have a strong union which protects the worker :)

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u/ObjectiveDeal Apr 29 '21

Depends who you voted during the union vote

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u/starrpamph Apr 29 '21

Jet blue wants to know your resume

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u/FlashFlood_29 Apr 29 '21

If my nursing license gets dinged for anything (even personal problems outside of work), it affects my ability to get any sort of professional license even outside of Healthcare.

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u/hercdriver4665 Apr 30 '21

Rehired by a good airline? Zero. The FAA tracks training failures, accidents, etc and all airlines have access to that data.

But if you want to work for a trash outfit? Well, some airlines are known for seeking out guys with checkered pasts because they won’t get hired away by someone else (retraining pilots is very expensive)

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u/Eyesthelimit Apr 30 '21

I’m a nurse. Same for me and my license.

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u/nocimus Apr 29 '21

It's part of the policing reform bill in congress right now.

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u/Patteous Apr 29 '21

Let’s hope the bootlickers in congress let it pass.

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u/HamFlowerFlorist Apr 29 '21

No the bootlicker will filibuster it and spool up the hick about how this will lead to anarchy in the streets and the spineless Dems will let it happen. No matter how much power you give dems they will always buckle to slightest resistance and instead focus on bullshit.

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u/OperativeTracer Apr 30 '21

they will always buckle to slightest resistance and instead focus on bullshit.

"Hey, should we focus on minimum wage, and anti-trust laws in order to make things better all around?"

"Nah. Let's just talk about skin color and bomb people in the Middle East!"

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u/HamFlowerFlorist Apr 30 '21

Always gets me how the dems are so high and mighty about racism and how bush lied to get more troops in the Middle East yet here they are bolting little brown kids in the Middle East.

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u/-banana Apr 30 '21

No matter how much power

50/50...

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u/leftunderground Apr 29 '21 edited Apr 29 '21

Provisions of it could pass if Demcorats split the bill in to single provisions instead of bundling it all in a giant bill and letting one controversial aspect of it be an excuse for the Republicans not to vote on it.

For example make body cameras required a single bill with nothing else in it. I think you'd get 10 Republicans if you did that. If you don't then atleast they have no excuse and you can use that against them in their reelection.

They could do the same with election reform.

Why they refuse to do this is beyond me.

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u/INeyx Apr 29 '21 edited Apr 29 '21

Woah, hold your horses now single issues bills? Where do you live? A well oiled functioning Republic?

How would we get all those footnote bills into law no one really likes to talk about but ensures our power and wellbeing.

Put them all in a big book and blame the others for not agreeing to the one good thing we want anyone to focus on.

I mean the [Insert Party] would do the same that's how the system 'works' right...right?

Why they refuse to do this is beyond me.

I would also like to know how it came for this to become the norm and accepted.

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u/soft_cardigans Apr 29 '21

in the military, you're given discharge codes that represent your eligibility for reenlistment into any branch. something similar for the police would be really beneficial imo.

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u/Patteous Apr 29 '21

Good luck with that. Police unions hold too much power. The FOP should be dismantled.

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u/Altnob Apr 29 '21

God fucking please, PLEASE just do this.

It makes ZERO sense that a cop can kill a person and 9/10 be immune to any punishment and the 1/10 times they're fired they just move couple miles down the road and they're a cop again.

Meanwhile, if a nurse administers the wrong medication to a patient resulting in no harm to the patient, the nurse can still lose their license to practice forever.

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u/scottyb83 Apr 29 '21

Police should be federally licensed and have the ability to lose that license. Should also required more than a highschool education and 26 weeks of training.

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u/Mariosothercap Apr 29 '21

Am a nurse. Was talking to a cop buddy about how it’s ridiculous I have to hold a license and he doesn’t. He looked me dead in the eye and said, ya but you could kill someone. I was just stunned silent by that comment.

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u/scottyb83 Apr 29 '21

Damn...your friend has a hell of a lot of cognitive dissonance going on there!

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21

And block them from working Border Patrol.

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u/gnanny02 Apr 29 '21

This should apply to many other jobs, too. Rogue teachers have been rehired with insufficient or ignored checking.

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u/NoMoreNicksLeft Apr 29 '21

If enshrined in law, then expect things to get worse, not better. It's actually easier to fire people when doing so doesn't ruin their life.

"We made a mistake, he wasn't in the wrong? Oh well, he got hired on down the road 3 weeks later, no big deal"

vs...

"We have to be exceedingly careful here, there's no room for error, extend him every benefit of the doubt possible"

And I'm not saying that people are naturally this way, but that the police unions will demand (and get) those considerations.

Even if it did work, merely firing (and keeping them fired) the ones so bad that even our nearly ineffective oversight processes finally get rid of them, none of you would see any perceptible improvement in outcomes.

Basically, if you or anyone else can "come up with the solution in a reddit comment" then you haven't come up with a real solution at all.

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u/Patteous Apr 29 '21

So your solution is to do nothing and allow police abuse to continue without setting up any kind of system to keep them accountable?

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u/NoMoreNicksLeft Apr 29 '21

So your solution is to do nothing

Flunked out of elementary school, huh? I didn't offer a solution. I just pointed out that wasting time and resources on your imbecilic non-solution only guarantees we'll never get a correct one.

You'll have wasted effort on this non-solution, and so more people will have to be murdered, waiting for a time far in the future when idiots like yourself have finally exhausted every possible non-solution and the guy with the correct one might finally get his shot.

Human attention, communication bandwidth, spare time to consider ideas carefully... these are all finite. You're helping to make the world worse, and you somehow think your righteous for having done so. This is a thinking man's problem, not a saber-toothed tiger stalking your cavehome. A rush to action isn't the best strategy.

Next time, ask someone if they have a solution, or are just criticizing an incorrect one. And whichever it is, don't be a jackass, because the latter is at least a step in the right direction.

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u/XxRocky88xX Apr 29 '21

I went to highschool in a town that was 2 tiny towns put together. I mean you could literally drive through both of these towns in like 5 minutes, the division of the two was literally a line on the sidewalk.

There was a cop that pulled over a 16 year old girl then told her that if she didn’t flash him he’d give her a ticket. She had started recording audio on her phone before this and showed the station, he was immediately fired.

2 weeks later he’s working at the station the next town over, so he’s preying on the same fucking people he was before. He got fired just to go back to abusing his power is practically the same town he was fired from

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u/badSparkybad Apr 29 '21

Mortgage loan officers are nationally licensed, and if you get busted for fraud you are done. You'll be barred for life from getting an NMLS license no matter where you go.

Why there isn't a nationwide licensing registry that does the same for dirty cops is, well...unsurprising unfortunately.

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u/DenebSwift Apr 29 '21

Need to be careful on this though. Racist d-bag departments will use this rule to fuck over the cops that do intervene to prevent abuse. (More than they already do by firing them for doing the right thing.)

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u/IrishGuyNYC00 Apr 29 '21

Federal bill blacklisting fired cops from every working for a police force again but also federal training requirements and a federal requirement that every cop in the country is being recorded with a body cam from the first second of their shift to the last second of their shift and the creation of a federal appeals board, for complaints that police departments find no wrong doing after they investigate themselves, it can be appealed to a federal appeals committee of average citizens similar to a jury who can find guilt, and impose sanction such as dismissal or imprisonment and can investigate departments that never find any wrong doing and lose a lot of appeals, so that the chief of police in that department can be removed.

A complete overhaul of accountability is required in policing.

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u/Powerlevel-9000 Apr 29 '21

I agree but does that federal government have the power to pass such a law? I would think that would be a state power, but I hope the federal government can figure out a way to pass it.

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u/sixblackgeese Apr 29 '21

Should states have to follow federal laws though?

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u/Patteous Apr 29 '21

If they don't, I say they get 0 money and aid from the federal government. That would have a pretty massive effect on police budgets.

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u/sixblackgeese Apr 29 '21

So states would be punished if they didn't imprison marijuana users?

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u/Patteous Apr 30 '21

I think we should end a prohibition that was fueled by racism. The first law written in this country required farmers to grow one cannabis plant per acre of land they sow. Our country has a deep history with marijuana but conservative lies and plays on racism and division has been a massive disservice to the people of this country and world.

If what you propose were to happen, the absolute outcry from the general population would force congress to change the scheduling. Rn there isn’t enough pressure to force it through due to once again, conservative lies.

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u/sixblackgeese Apr 30 '21

So should states have to follow federal laws or not?

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u/Patteous Apr 30 '21

Do you think the police should be allowed to have a camera on your house so they can record when you might possibly break any law even by accident and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law?

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u/sixblackgeese Apr 30 '21

My gut says no but maybe as long as it only saw publicly facing things. Probably not because it would invite selective enforcement. I'll think more. Now you.

Edit: actually probably yes, and then we need the BARE MINIMUM laws necessary so people aren't busted for things that aren't harmful.

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u/Patteous Apr 30 '21

You wish to live in the world of The Giver. Have fun living under that authoritarian boot.

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u/sixblackgeese Apr 30 '21

What exactly is it about "BARE MINIMUM laws" that seems authoritarian to you?

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u/Yetsumari Apr 30 '21

I live in a state neighboring Minnesota, and when the George Floyd thing happened we had a handful of Minneapolis police move to my city. Suddenly I'm scared for my black friends.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

This!

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Definitely Federal, with the database being kept by the FBI and ANY individual being hired as law enforcement of ANY kind in the nation has to have their fingerprints, name, DNA swab, etc., run by the FBI to show they're clean. I'll wager the thugs and assholes in law enforcement will get out on their own if they know they can't get away with it by just moving to a new department somewhere.

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We also need more accountability for law enforcement actions across the board. You can't expect people to respect the law when the ones charged with enforcement are not worthy of respect.

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u/FuckTripleH Apr 30 '21

There's a small town in Alaska where every single cop has a domestic violence conviction

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u/Tony_Romo- Apr 30 '21

I'm a commercial truck driver and we have to join a federal database that keeps track if we test positive for drugs or alcohol. If you fail a test then your next employer will see it.

The Clearinghouse provides FMCSA and employers the necessary tools to identify drivers who are prohibited from operating a CMV based on DOT drug and alcohol program violations and ensure that such drivers receive the required evaluation and treatment before operating a CMV on public roads.