After the death of an Australian woman, the senior police officer in Minneapolis has resigned, though she had to be asked to do so.
I think this is a good thing and senior officers should be held accountable for the actions of the rank and file.
And the lady who led the screwed up operation which killed De Menzes is now the Head of the Metropolitan Police. Maybe you guys can learn from the colonies?
How different from the home life of our own dear Police, who go around murdering Brazilian electricians, and people with chair legs, and the perpetrators get promoted and given medals.
Not a fan of Cressida Dick then I take it.
I went to the De Menezes inquest. The incompetence shown by the people under her command and herself was staggering.
…there are 15,000 police departments in the United States. I don’t think the resignation of a single police chief at one of those departments shows that much accountability at all. Compare law enforcement in the UK to law enforcement in the US. This sort of resignation would be relatively significant in the UK: but is comparitively insignificant in the States.
Just maybe, after a short period of reflection and a session of mandatory self-criticism, she will be given another job no different to the last in another force.
The system works !
My understanding is that the police chief in question is responsible for leading reform in her department, including body cameras, which weren’t used the night in question. She has a long history of dispute with the mayor, who seems to be unpopular. Perhaps they both were.
I’d like to hear from Dopers in the area as far as whether her resignation is really a good thing. It’s hard to tell from outside the community.
White women"s lives matter!
I see in the news, protesters are demanding that the mayor resign too.
I live across the river in St. Paul, and I don’t know what the hell is going on over there. I’d like to see an entire chain of command resign, from the chief all the way down to the guy who thought it was a good idea to draw his sidearm as he drove up, but not turn on his body camera.
Yes, I was deeply unimpressed when she did not take responsibility.
Yeah, I expect a lot of people downplaying the fact that this sort of accountability didn’t happen until a person of color killed a white person. This just happened to be the last straw.
Oh she did take it. And then dumped as much of it on her team.
In my years of observing horror stories like this, one thing I’ve completely lost respect for, is the “head of the department resigns or is fired” trick. Unless it’s done after a thorough investigation proves that it was their incompetence or worse, complicity, that caused the horror, all that such resignations or firings are really for, is to cover up the incident politically, and try to make the general public think the problem was corrected.
It obviously worked for the OP, here.
Until cops are put in prison or lose their certification and pensions their will be not accountability. At that point they should not be able to be a mall cop or crossing guard.
This, or something like it. Shootings of unarmed citizens should be investigated like other murders but even if the officer is found innocent, they should be fired. Shooting an innocent person because you were frightened is unforgivably incompetent for a police officer, and not behavior any municipality should be willing to risk happening a second time.
And yeah, the head cop stepping down is just theater.
A black police officer named Mohammed who was from Somalia (an African nation that is 99% Muslim). Plus the white woman he killed was photogenic.
Human nature sucks sometimes. But if this is what it takes to make people take police brutality seriously, then at least it is something.
If the payouts for police brutality start coming out of police pension funds rather than city funds, then you will see departments get serious about stopping police brutality. Right now they have nothing to lose.
Good call on the police pension fund. It might encourage the few good cops to turn in the POS goons they work with instead of covering up and staying silent.
So that their pension funds can be lost when the city is sued over the fired cop?
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