“Sometimes the cops murder other cops. The NYPD seems to pull this off with an alarming regularity.”
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Really?
Do have anymore info on this?
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Here’s a recent academic paper on the topic of blue-on-blue shootings and how the cops sometimes cover up killing their own by the willful destruction of evidence.
https://repositories.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/48921/MILLER-THESIS.pdf?sequence=1
There are also other stories from recent years where NYPD ran into a cop in an apartment hallway and fired over 80 shots at him, killing him. Another one had an undercover detective running after a suspect and uniformed cops opened fire on him without warning, killing him because he was black and running.
To the credit of the NYPD they are making efforts to reduce these kind of shootings, but the facts of these shooting betrays a general disregard for public safety and the rights of the people they suspect may have committed a crime.
I say it this way because in each case the cops used deadly force in the suspicion that the person they were murdering was a suspect civilian. The regret only came later when they discovered they had murdered another cop.