There exists in law criminal medical malpractice statutes and in cases where the error was so egregious that it justifies criminal prosecution doctors can be prosecuted. It doesn't happen often, and in an irony that Mr. Yates might appreciate, the AMA is just as opposed to doctors being charged as police unions are for officers being charged.
Nowhere is his article is an admission by Mr. Yates that among the more than a million sworn law enforcement officers there are some bad apples and people who, through temperament or incompetence, should never have been police officers at all. If he believes that officers shouldn't be prosecuted for "police mistakes" then would he say that Mohammad Noor should not have been jailed for killing Justine Diamond? Should the officers who killed Breonna Taylor not be held accountable and instead be sent back to the streets as if nothing happened?
Police do a hard, dangerous, often thankless job and for the most part they do it very well. That is an indisputable fact. But there is a vary small minority who abuse their authority and that, too, is an indisputable fact. And when that minority step over the line, when they move from enforcing the law to breaking it, then they should face the same penalties a you or I would.
But there is a vary small minority who abuse their authority and that, too, is an indisputable fact. And when that minority step over the line,
We assume the issue is about justice in our eyes. It is NOT.
It has been MANY small things that have brought us to where we are now.