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"But it is also morally wrong to use the difficulty of a cop's job to defend the actions of every cop, every time, everywhere."

Look...we all know there are mistakes made. What is the point of posting every abberant situation? What exactly does it contribute to the important topics around here. Every other day there is a, "See!!!! Another bad cop story. Gee, we are good to catch these bad apples." Please. Don't waste the bandwidth...we get the picture, already.

There wasn't a mistake made. There were laws broken, or the LE wouldn't be in jail.

It's very important to keep these events highlighted because they aren't abberant. They are legion.

/johnny

“Look...we all know there are mistakes made. What is the point of posting every abberant situation? What exactly does it contribute to the important topics around here. Every other day there is a, “See!!!! Another bad cop story. Gee, we are good to catch these bad apples.” Please. Don’t waste the bandwidth...we get the picture, already.”

Yes, yes, nothing to see here ... move along. what’s the point of FR if not to highlight this kind of thing? Lord knows these cops are rarely ever held accountable for their crimes. Just like those LAPD cops that blasted away at two little old ladies delivering news papers. I think they got an award for marksmanship but that’s about it, meanwhile the tax payers of Los Angles get tagged for $4.5 million and then will have to pay for pension of these idiot (attempted murders) for the text 30 to 40 years.

“Look...we all know there are mistakes made. What is the point of posting every abberant situation? What exactly does it contribute to the important topics around here. Every other day there is a, “See!!!! Another bad cop story. Gee, we are good to catch these bad apples.” Please. Don’t waste the bandwidth...we get the picture, already. “

First things first, brushing aside violent crimes, committed under color of law, as ‘mistakes made’ is abhorrent.

Second, these cases are publicized, and should publicized, because not only does the difficulty of a cop’s job not excuse criminal behavior, but rather a cop’s position makes criminal behavior by the cop (and particularly violent criminal behavior) far worse. Cops are public servants, who hold vital positions of public trust. When they commit violent crimes under color of law, they not only violate the law, they also violate that trust. That’s why these cases are, and ought to be, publicized every single time.

Look at this article - this guy was charged with “aggravated assault by a public servant” - there’s a reason that is a separate category of crime, not just plain aggravated assault.