Psyhos do sometimes evade the system and become police officers. This individual has no business being a police officer. Indefinite suspension is not enough, He needs to be removed from the force.
PAID indefinite suspension no doubt.
Now the taxpayers are paying for him to sit on his unstable rear end all day playing Grand Theft Auto and power downing 40 ounce Schlitz Malt Liquors.
At least that's what I'd do if I was ever lucky enough to be put on paid administrative leave.
Both of them need more training in their respective roles...that's fairly obvious.
I wonder if the Canton, OH police department conducts psychiatric screening of it’s new police hires? Or conducts periodic psych exams of its officers after they become regular cops?
Is it standard procedure anymore of police agencies to conduct psychiatric screening for it’s new police recruits, to weed out the ‘psychos’ before they are sent off the the academy and then the streets?
This cop obviously slipped thru the cracks if they do screening exams - it appears to me watching this cop’s behavior that this guy had issues long before he ever decided to become a cop. Any competent psychiatrist would have seen this and recommended he be rejected for duty.
It also seems to me that more and more are becoming cops that have no business becoming a cop due to underlying psychiatric issues, but are being rubber stamped for service when just a generation or less ago, they would have rightfully been rejected due to failing a psychiatric pre-screening exam.
You would think that with the amount cops are paid these days, that the various police agencies would want to screen out these psycho type of cops, especially when they will have to pay millions in settlements with citizens who had bad encounters with them.
If this is a sterioid rage type of issue, then police departments need to enforce the laws on the books and start testing their officers for steriod/HGH/PED use and banning their use in their police agency, since using steriods without a prescription is illegal.
Just my two cents....
bfl
Where is the charge against the cop for felony menacing? Are cops above the law? If so, we need to abolish them from having such authority.
Am I prejudiced because I make assumptions every time I see one of these cops with a buzz cut?
This ain’t Parris Island. I don’t think any police force demands that look. I think these guys are making the same statement with their hair that hippies (and closer) skinheads always have. I’m sick of it.