He obviously had good reason to fear for his life; the kid should just be happy he didn’t get shot. /s
I’d think it’s because most of the time the bad cops aren’t bad all the time, and that from the police’s point of view, everyone they interact with is a criminal who can do them harm and an adversary and that they need to back each other up 100% of the time.
That cop who uses excessive force a bit too much has probably used force to protect other cops too.
It’s not easy, even though it’s necessary.
jpinard
1868
They have access to tapes and still don’t speak up. Except that one time.
Here you go. A couple of good cops resigned due to the unsafe (for prisoners) conditions at a jail.
jpinard
1870
First, that judge needs to be jailed for attempted murder because those CO levels are not going to remain stable. Second, those officers need to be commended like crazy for this. Maybe I should write them a letter.
ShivaX
1872
How to avoid saying a cop shot a guy in a shitload of words.
Wasn’t it you that linked that wonderful (awful) McSweeney’s article in this very thread?
rowe33
1874
Worded a bit more directly here. Worry no more, dad. If only they had been forewarned that he might be dangerous to himself or others, then they could have had some non-lethal means with them to eliminate the threat without killing him.
According to a police search warrant obtained by 6 News, on Tuesday, a father who lives out of town was worried about his son, 29-year-old Osaze Osagie, who he told police had been acting erratically for a couple of weeks and could possibly be off his medication.
Their lack of training in using non-lethal means put their own lives in jeopardy. Shooting was totally justified.
Except one can point to individual Muslims and Muslim groups who routinely decry the evils done by other Muslims, and who actually publicly act to prevent and/or mitigate those abuses.
So, then, point to the individual cops or cop groups who routinely decry the evils done by other cops, and who actually publicly act to prevent and/or mitigate those abuses. I can think of a handful of recent cases where a cop caught doing bad things mitigated his/her own punishment by pointing to other bad actors, but I honestly can’t think of a single recent case where an uninvolved cop opted to e.g. denounce or testify against bad cops. Can you?
Timex
1878
Like five posts up when the sherriff and most of the cops working under her quit in protest over the conditions they were keeping prisoners?
This kind of makes sense to me. A valid constitutional warrant to seize monies was presented,
The cops then illegally, but not unconstitutionally, underrepresented the amount taken (allegedly? Hard to tell from article).
And it made national news because nothing like that ever happens and it’s not in the context of police wrongdoing anyway?
From the letter it’s pretty clear they were complaining about the effect of the conditions on the employees; the cops.
The rural jail’s carbon monoxide levels were just two points away from lethal and four employees had been taken to hospital as a result, she said.
This is some challenging calculus.
So if, say 1% of a given group (e.g., cops, Muslims) are bad, the silent 99% are also bad because they don’t stand up to the 1%, unless some other small percent (say another 1%) does routinely decry the first 1%? It’s like arithmetic, they cancel each other out leaving the middle 98% okay? Lucky for the 98% in that second group!
Maybe it’s that. Or maybe it’s crazy post-facto reasoning to support a preconceived position.
Or maybe I’m arguing that the comparison is silly? That this claim:
…is silly.
Cops protect each other from criticism and punishment in a way that some other groups do not. This does not strike me as a controversial statement.
ShivaX
1884
More like the other 99% help them cover up the fact that they’re bad.
Then like 0.5% call them out and summarily run out of the occupation and black listed forever.
