So, let’s see. This officer doesn’t have deep pockets, and neither do her various superiors. So money will be taken from taxpayers. At the end of the day, no one will feel the consequences of this death. The lesson for the officer and the police bureaucrats is that, it’s really not that bad to kill a child.
Well, you are speculating to a certain extent. As to the superiors you are most likely correct, but in terms of the officer herself there might be some greater consequences for her; although we’ve seen plenty of cases where that wasn’t the case.
Of course that is wrong, but a lot of laws would need to be changed and probably should be.
It’s a pretty involved subject and while this woman’s error was grievous I think it *was* an error rather than malice.
But I agree that there should be a structure that holds people responsible for their actions even when they are working on behalf of the government or other entity.
In retrospect it was probably not the best thing for me to phrase it like that, but in the end, these ARE lawyers we are talking about, lawyers whose careers depend on racking up victories in these kinds of cases and here they essentially have a victory handed to them on a silver platter. I’m pretty sure they are at least keeping that in the back of their head.