Well, they are both interested in putting [redacted] and [redacted]-lovers in their proper place.
I am actually friends with a DA and a former ADA. It’s more how they need to work with cops every day. Before anything gets to a remotely criminal level, cops, especially if they are backed by their superiors, can make life very difficult for prosecutors. They need cops to gather evidence and preserve it. Stuff can get deprioritized or “forgotten”. Witnesses can end up getting arrested at very inconvenient times.
If you piss off the cops, your job can become untenable very quickly.
Good time to mention this:
Well Typo_Negative you can now see the last words of all the inmates executed in Texas:
The video:
Uggh, that’s utterly sickening. Bad police behavior = some people are (quite reasonably) mortally terrified of police officers, and police officers react to behavior consistent with terror (i.e. trying to flee) with deadly force, thus ensuring the cycle continues.
Police training needs to focus on de-escalation rather than strict compliance. Innocent people often act irrationally in stressful situations, and it was clear from the outset that this man was scared as hell.
5 Tennessee cops were fired and 3 others suspended for engaging in Girls Gone Wild-like parties involving heavy drinking, texting pictures of their genitalia, and having sex with the same female officer while both on and off duty [Superdude asks: should it matter if they had sex off duty? That’s not illegal].
To date, there have been no charges filed against anyone.
It’s good that they were fired, but that sounds like a disciplinary issue, not a legal one.
True. But it fit here better than any other thread. Except for the “stupid people” one, I suppose. But this thread doesn’t specify that it has to be a legal issue.
Was someone a supervisor of someone else? That would likely be against the rules even if off-duty.
Sexual activity does have an effect on how the fuckers relate to each other in non-copulatory situations. When you have people doing a job in which teamwork can be an important part of it, knowing who is schtupping whom is helpful info for making task assignments.
Instead of talking about brutal cops, let’s talk about some compassionate paramedics called by cops:
Apparently the price of the “inconvenience” of being pepper sprayed, illegally detained and illegally searched by police is about $4,000. What a nice message this sends to officers: if you torture someone, it will cost your department about as much as a nice laptop.
Army officer pepper-sprayed by police gets $3,685 in $1 million lawsuit - ABC News.
It won’t cost the police department anything. The local government’s insurance company will write the check, and then the citizens at large will eat the cost for pennies a person in the form of more taxes to cover the overhead on police malfeasance. That’s the part the law-and-order types never seem to do the math on, we’re all subsidizing the thugs with badges.
The head of the law enforcement operations directorate of the U.S. Border Patrol has stepped down after being accused of forcing civilian employees into having sex.
…the NYPD protecting and serving.
…jesus.
Read the article first.
Now watch the video. (GRAPHIC warning: man gets shot, he survivied, and is in hospital)
The full video is linked to on youtube in the replies. One of the cop says clearly “we’re all fucked” before getting reminded by another officer that they are wearing cameras. What they don’t realize is that the man they shot had a camera in the corner of the room that captured everything, including that it clearly wasn’t a “potential hostage situation”, there was no gun, and any delay was clearly caused by the couple having to wake up, figure out what was going on, turning on the lights, and opening the door.
The reporting just repeats whatever it is the police tell them. If it weren’t for the camera, that would probably be it for the story.
A Milwaukee police officer was arrested for armed battery a few days ago. About two hours later another Milwaukee police officer was arrested for sexual assault.