If the prosecutor isnât willing to prosecute a cop because it affects the police department budget, youâve got another conflict of interest. The police may not be willing to fire the guy because of his misconduct, but if heâs in jail where he belongs, theyâll have to do something.
They might even go for a radical step like training the officers not to be thugs or criminals.
I dig what you are trying to say here, but I want to draw what I think is an important distinction:
To wit:" âNiles, OHâ
In my opinion its these small town cops ( which are often little more than armed security guards ) that are by far worse than any that you will find in a major city.
A police officer that protects âbad applesâ and conveniently doesnât see them do bad things and fails to report them when they do are âbad applesâ. They are not all âbad applesâ but the super majority of them are.
There are fewer times in your life when you are in more danger than when you are surrounded by cops. The more cops around you, the more danger you are in. It only takes one to do something violently and you are utterly fucked because the rest will just watch.
Not true. City cops can be just as bad. There are awful cops in every law enforcement agency. You may not hear about some of the large city atrocities, b/c a large city often has a system in place to keep things quiet.
I hear what you are saying and I dont have any problem accepting your statement. But its my experience that large town cops have things to do- like dealing with real crime.
Whereas the âpolice officersâ in Skeeterville, OH dont have anything better to do except sit on the side of the road and wait for you to dive past âtoo fastâ so they can harass you.
This American Life has a very disturbing story about Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who recorded a lot of his interactions with the head of his department. These recordings are chilling. There were demands to meet ticketing and arrest quotas. On halloween the head of department told the officers to âget everyone off the streetsâ to lock up anyone older than a child, but younger than a parent under the becca bill bullshit, whether or not there are charges or probable cause.
Schoolcraft attempted to not conform to the quota system. He âmissed his numbersâ and refused to treat everyone like criminals. He was harassed, by the department, and threatened, and driven to the point of hiding out in his house under siege when he tried to blow the whistle.
Itâs fucking insane what happens to cops who try to honor their own integrity. Their departments chew them up and spit them out, and try to get them committed to psychiatric hospitals. Fucking ridiculous.
âDonât trust the guy with all the meticulously documented recordings! Heâs crazy!â
Sure officer âLock up anyone you see tonight, our arrest numbers arenât matching up with last yearâsâ.
Someone said that a normal person wouldnât do this.
Actually, a normal person would not seek to become one of these lowlifes to get even for what the hateful lowlife perceives as slights in the lowlifeâs past.
This is especially true of the bullies with badges goons who would beat, taze, rob, rape and/or murder their own mothers to get even.
