Posted on 07/23/2014 9:10:13 AM PDT by Ken H
I often hear of “a few bad cops” giving all the others a bad name. The question then becomes; “Why don’t the good cops, turn in the bad cops?” The only comparison, and I will be the first to admit that it is an unfair one, is to Islam.
We are always told of the radical 10% that are the trouble makers, but we never hear anything from the other 90%, that rebukes the actions of the minority.
Same holds true of police, no matter how poorly or illegally an officer has acted, his brothers and sisters in blue will NOT speak up against him.
Another impediment to cleaning up law enforcement is that when an officer is found guilty of misconduct, the tax payers and not the officer are on the hook for any costs. The officer may lose their job, but the tax payer foots the bill.
So what can we do to fix this situation? Well as my old First Sergeant used to say; “Don’t complain unless you have a solution to the problem.” Well here is my idea.
Any and all monetary damages awarded to a plaintiff as a result of the actions of law enforcement officers, are to ONLY come from the offending departments or organizations pension fund.
Only when it hits home personally by weakening every officers retirement, will the good ones begin to turn in the bad ones. In time, department phycologists and training officers will do a better job of weeding out the nut jobs. Senior staff will do a better job of triple checking addresses before conducting a “no-knock” late night call to a suspect’s home. Officers will advise their partners that a course of action is not advised, rather than just going along.
And once this has happened, law enforcement might begin to gain some of the mountain of trust and respect that they have lost in past few years.
Well, there was some hope. Bummer.
Maybe the south should try to be more like Boston, NYC, D.C., Detroit, Chicago...
No thanks.
There is corruption everywhere, but at least in the south the women are easy on the eyes.
” I can never figure out why Texas is
considered such a bastion of freedom
around here.”
I think it was last year TX got hammered for extorting people to sign awa claim to money. They threatened arrest and DCF ifthey didn’t. No parrent, even innocent, would refuse that demand.
Why people think TX = freedom, I don’t know.
The private prison gets paid by the state (which often takes fed dollars) on a per inmate housed basis.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4013
I know many fine, upstanding, trustworthy individuals, who also happen to be LEO. They are amazing, hilarious, God fearing, Constitutional individuals. The problem is not the individual, and I've told a number of them this. The problem starts when they strap that gun & badge on, and I suddenly go from friend and fellow American to a tattoo'd, facial haired scumbag. There's a serious problem with that.
Just because you live in one of the few free states in the north does not mean I need to “look at myself and clean house” before noting the incredible levels of awfulness and corruption in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode island, New York and New Jersey.
My sentiments, exactly.
Having spent a small amount of time in the field of journalism (got out when I realized that truth was in short supply), I could tell that this story was lacking, so to speak. I wanted to believe the individual officer was liable, but a quick search revealed that the taxpayer was the paymaster :(
Thanks for your reply!
The speed limit drop to 35 from 75 was deemed
unreasonable, so they had to up it to 50 mph.
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That would still be too large of drop ,,75-50=25 mph exceeds the maximum 15mph change from one speed limit to the next that the D.O.T. allows,, they could enforce it for a while I guess .. until someone gets it to trial and wins.
Whats your point? Certainly not that TX is somehow less corrupt. Lets cut to the chase...TX is nothing special and, like KA, completely over hyped. You have more than your share of looney liberals and all the problems that plague the rest of the country. What you seem to have more of than any other state is chest beaters who’ve never been out of state or town. The world is a big place and your end of it isn’t as great as you might imagine.
Less corrupt than what?
Texas is less corrupt than New Jersey, New York or Massachusetts.
And Virginia certainly is.
I’m not sure where KA is, so I cannot comment on it.
The overwhelming majority of looney liberals in Virginia are transplants from the liberal hell-holes of the northeast.
I think so, too.
I think so, too.
Any time I'm on a jury and cops don't have videotape, the word of the officer in question is given slightly more credibility than your average used car salesman in my mind. Judgement is rendered accordingly.
Did he write her up for “munny londering”?
Really? I think you’re out of touch w/ reality. Southerners make out as though they’re some how better than the rest of the country. The fact is they’re no better or worse. Sadly, like you, they haven’t measured themselves rightly.
LOL, another one out of touch...TX (and the south in general) has their own home grown liberal. Sure, there are some from other places but the population of indigenous liberals has more than satisfied the need to keep ‘blue dog’ dems in power for generations. You guys crack me up...ya cant see the forest for the trees. Clean your own house before you criticize the north.
I invite you to come to Virginia and listen to the annoying northern accents of our chief liberal politicians and democrat organizers. The majority of the lib-tard a-holes who are destroying this Commonwealth moved here from points north. That is a fact.
I have lived here for 49 years. I KNOW what has happened to me state. I have witnessed it.
It is you who are out of touch with reality.
There are degrees of corruption, and if you cannot see that NJ, NY and MA are MORE corrupt than TX, VA and, for that matter most other places in the country, then you are not only out of touch, you are blind and deaf.
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