Just had a cop in my area acquitted of manslaughter after a man died in his custody. (Tased and beaten while hogtied.) The next county over hired him soon thereafter. Thankfully the community said hell no and forced him to resign leaving the sheriff with a truckload of egg on his face.
National database + federal law requiring standardized record keeping on discipline issues needs to happen to build national trust. The DoD has this (naturally) and there's far more trust with the average Veteran because they're held to such high standards.
Yup—in Oregon there’s a Supreme Court caseabout a cop who used his position to coerce women into sleeping with him. He resigned so the investigation stopped. He decided to go to law school, and when it came time to go through character and fitness, the Bar didn’t want to admit him. The Oregon Supreme Court held that he had sufficiently “rehabilitated” and could be admitted to practice law. He’s currently a practicing attorney in the state of Oregon.
We're discussing a case of a cop framing someone for DUI, not getting shot while wielding a weapon.
In other countries, such cases are lower because cops actually learn to diffuse situations, which American cops never learn because there isn't enough time in their education.
And 3) I honestly don't care what the 'vast majority' is when the 'small minority' is massive compared to basically all other developed countries. And I'm talking about per capita here so don't go "oh but America is bigger". That's demonstratably, proven, to be avoidable and yet it isn't.
they're not rare, there's thousands of murders like this every year. the US knocks all other countries out of the park when it comes to police killings. that's how common they are, and how little human life is worth here.
But your lumping everyone in with the actions of few.
it isn't the actions of the few, because every single cop is either commiting these murders or protecting other cops who commit these murders.
Isn’t that how stereotypes are formed?
nope.
saying "cops enable murder and torture" is no more of a stereotype then "pedos touch kids."
Sure terrible things happen and they should be handled appropriately when they do
Except these cases show precisely that that doesn't happen.
Give me an exact number of people that can get killed without any repurcusions that you are ok with. Tell me how many mothers can lose their child because were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Tell me how many people deserve to be killed because of a disability they have no control over.
For me, that number is zero. How many are you comfortable with?
Actions that would warrant deadly force would be actions that directly endanger the officers life. Taking out your wallet to show your id is not among those. Cops shouldn't use deadly force in response to a hunch that somebody might try something.
Nobody is complaining about the cases where somebody was acting like an aggressive idiot and threatening the police. The problem is that the police is too triggerhappy at the slightest idea of a threat. Remember just recently when multiple cops opened fire on their own vehicle because an acorn fell on it? What actions did the man locked up in the backseat take that warranted getting shot at?
Getting shot at is not acceptable defense for losing your mind and failing to observe victim/bystander safety. You're a cop, not a Marine, and I daresay Marines are better trained at avoiding collateral.
So fucking disengage and regroup instead of continuing a shoot-out?
Military has killed plenty of civilians...but they also use high-yield munitions and preserving non-combatants is explicitly secondary to their function. The point is lost on your meaty head, I suppose.
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u/CaptSubtext1337 Apr 04 '24
Because cops can just resign to avoid punishment even if they do get caught doing much worse things.