WTF Bad boys, Bad boys, whatcha gonna do

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wetwille said:
Some are held accountable and some just don't DO the stupid shit you're referring to. It's hardly a reason to shit-sack the lot of them, just because of their occupation. Some really are into public service and really are like vegans working in a slaughterhouse.
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what about the ones that DO the stupid shit I'm referring to and arent held accountable? how many of those have to happen before you'd admit that the system protects them?
 
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abcnews.go.com

Man Who Shot, Killed Ohio K-9 Officer Jethro Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison

K-9 Officer Jethro was fatally shot after responding to a burglary.
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Pantaleo was never indicted, Brailsford got off, Yanez got off, all the cops involved in Freddie Grey's death were acquitted, Slager got 20 years, Guyger got 10 years. but this dude got 45 for shooting a dog because it's a police dog.

yeah, the system works great.
 
august said:
what about the ones that DO the stupid shit I'm referring to and arent held accountable? how many of those have to happen before you'd admit that the system protects them?
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I'll never admit "the system" unilaterally protects them because there are different systems in different places. Different officer, different situations.
Never.

Jehannum said:
It's almost as if there's a consistent bias to law enforcement.
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Almost as if - that's your argument for making it so?
 
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august said:
it's real bad.

edit: the story I mean, idk about the county
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That county has a proven record of law enforcement and related branches being exceptionally unfair to the citizens they are paid to protect. Work camps and tent prisons, etc.
 
Police officer has never made the top 10 dangerous jobs list yet they'll talk as if it's some great feat to "go home at the end of your shift" or "when you leave home you might not make it back" or whatever. Face it, it's more dangerous being a farmer, or a logger, or a fisherman.

Yet at the same time if you narrowed it down to dealing with stuff like domestic disputes and rape cases and child abuse cases and things it's about the shittiest job one could have. I don't think there is an amount of money that could compensate for it and I don't think people dealing with that kind of shit for 5, 10, 20 years is good for anyone, including the cops. How could you see stuff like that on a regular basis and not become jaded?
 
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I hired two guys as delivery drivers that were fresh out of the military following the Gulf War. They both had aspirations of being coppers at one of the local jurisdictions and were applying everywhere. They had been partnered as MPs during much of their time in the military.

One guy was mature and even keeled. The other guy was a fucking lazy ass, who often showed poor judgement in just being alive, let alone being a copper. One eventually got hired with one of the larger police departments, the jerk got hired at a smaller force and it took him a year longer to get hired somewhere.

But he got hired just the same. All I could say was wow. I had regrets hiring him as a delivery driver.
 
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Immigrant said:
All valid reasons to be more thorough in the hiring process.
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I also think it's a good reason to rotate people out different specialties for their own mental health.
True, people with more experience are generally better at what they do but when somebody deals with nothing but murderers and child beaters for years or even decades......I'll just say they couldn't help but become out of touch with normal.
 
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Immigrant said:
Normal is just an illusion anyhoo.
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It's an average or mean. The big part of the bell curve.

I'm trying to be reasonable and view it from their perspective, not that that type of thing is encouraged here. They mostly deal with the extremes, and then just the negative ones. By the time they deal with somebody that somebody is usually at their worst.

Talking about the cops that have to deal with real shit. Not the shitheads that are just assigned to keep up the wealth transfer scheme (petty ticketing).
 
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