They couldn’t have prevented it…but they should have arrested him immediately for assault and battery, handcuffed him and reported him.
If you are a bank teller and observe your co-worker take handfuls of cash and stuff it in his pocket, what do you do?
If you are a bus driver and see another driver that is drinking right before getting on his own bus, what do you do?
If you are a police officer and you see another police officer violently assault a handcuffed suspect, at the very fucking minimum what do you do?
Well, a good part of the problem is right there. After the video surfaces, he calls it ‘violating departmental policy’ and not ‘committing a crime’.
This is not police work. This is a criminal act.
So if they managed to find something in departmental policy that somehow allowed it, the judge wouldn’t have had a problem with it?
I’m not sure where YOU work, but if I saw a workmate committing assault, I would damn sure turn him in. What is wrong with you?
The cops should simply say “Well, the policy changed yesterday to disallow head-kicks, how were we supposed to know it wasn’t allowed?”
And what kind of things do you allow to happen at your place of work that are illegal and/or against company policy just to save your coworker’s jobs?
Turn a blind eye and blame the media for giving the cops a bad reputation?
Blackmail!
The best part is that it took the video to alert the Chief that there was an issue. Not, you know, the other cops on the scene.
Sad but accurate.
I’m still waiting for the explanation of why turning your coworkers in for assault is a ridiculous expectation.
One of the dumbest things I’ve read on this board in a while. And I’m reading the flat earth thread.
In Steophan’s world, make sure that he doesn’t drop any cash on his way out.
In Steophan’s world, make sure the driver makes it safely to his seat.
In Steophan’s world, get your own licks in.
In the world that I’ve observed, especially if the coworker is a friend (as is usually the case), then yes, that’s what a lot of people do. To the extent of formalising it as a union, with the specific purpose of minimising or preventing the disciplining of those that break the rules.
People rationalise things. “The boss won’t miss the money”. “He’s not really drunk, and he’s a good driver”. “It was only one kick, and he deserved it anyway”. That’s what people do, and pretending that cops are somehow immune, or should be immune, to normal human feelings is absurd.
Where the hell does everybody here work? I feel rather sorry for people who can’t trust their coworkers to have their backs.
If a coworker had to leave a few minutes early to get to his kid’s school play, Id totally cover for them.
If a coworker beat/raped/killed someone? No.
And you feel that since people do this, that makes it okay?
And I still cannot believe that “Hey, he’s not that drunk and he’s a good driver” is at any way acceptable for a couple of school bus drivers.
Again, what is wrong with you?
If you let someone get away with crap like that, it usually means you yourself expect to get away with the same crap in return. I work for a company that does it’s best to screen out people like you, btw.
Yeah, I’d like to think I wouldn’t be friends with someone who drinks before driving a school bus, or steals money from my company, or kicks a handcuffed man in the head.
Not sure what kind of friends **Steophan **has.
Because police officers are entrusted with authority and the ability to end a life if they decide to, they should be held to a higher standard than petty cash thieves or drunk bus drivers. And petty cash thieves and drunk bus drivers should certainly be reported. What if you are seen on a security camera as being there when the cash was taken and the Boss asks you why you didn’t say anything? What if that drunk bus driver kills a bunch of kids.
Seriously your judgment seems very warped on this.
Ah, you bring up your unwavering hatred of unions. Unions prevent people from being disciplined for assault? Good luck with that.
Yeah, people rationalize doing the wrong thing all the time. That doesn’t mean that doing the wrong thing is suddenly the right thing.
And in those cases, anyone making those rationalizations is a pretty sorry excuse for a person, and an even shittier employee.
If this is your world, you work with some pretty shitty people. If you are seeing this, and not turning people in, you are one of them.
Well, I own my own business, and I would not appreciate my employees stealing, or being drunk, or committing assault. For the first 20 years of my working life, I worked for other people, and while I would have a co-worker’s back about lending them some gas money, or getting them a ride, and maybe even covering for them being late, theft, inebriation, and assault have never been tolerated in any of my work environments.
Where the hell do you work that such things are common and accepted?
Perhaps he works at a police station?