so if 99% of cops are good cops...

[butters]

...and there are approximately 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers serving in the usa, how many 'bad apples' are stinking up the barrel? 8,000

how about starting with throwing out all bad apples?
and if the number's ONLY 8,000, that shouldn't be too hard, right?

only 8,000. out there, destroying decency in communities across america.


i fully support decent policing, but it's way past time (decades/centuries even) for mayors and governors, chiefs of police and all officers to put that into practice.

 

[jaF0]

Look up a guy named German Bosque of south Florida.

 

[wabbitfoot]

...and there are approximately 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers serving in the usa, how many 'bad apples' are stinking up the barrel? 8,000

how about starting with throwing out all bad apples?
and if the number's ONLY 8,000, that shouldn't be too hard, right?

only 8,000. out there, destroying decency in communities across america.


i fully support decent policing, but it's way past time (decades/centuries even) for mayors and governors, chiefs of police and all officers to put that into practice.

tell it to DUMZ

all the shit happens under DUMZ

 

[butters]

Look up a guy named German Bosque of south Florida.

bloody hell! did they ever get shot of him?

 

[FlowersForFun]

...and there are approximately 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers serving in the usa, how many 'bad apples' are stinking up the barrel? 8,000

how about starting with throwing out all bad apples?
and if the number's ONLY 8,000, that shouldn't be too hard, right?

only 8,000. out there, destroying decency in communities across america.


i fully support decent policing, but it's way past time (decades/centuries even) for mayors and governors, chiefs of police and all officers to put that into practice.

Can't.....certainly not in (D) controlled cities/states where the unions decide who works and who doesn't.

Can't just FIRE a bad cop, those lovely unions the left loves so much won't allow it.

You'll need some major union reforms in a number of states before you can fire bad cops......and that would make you a Nazi. You don't want to be a Nazi right??

 

[SugarDaddy1]

Bust the police unions to rank and yank bad cops

The police officer who killed George Floyd had been the subject of more than a dozen complaints about his conduct. In two previous incidents, Derek Chauvin had been disciplined with letters of reprimand. Tou Thao, who stood by as Floyd died, previously had a lawsuit brought against him over excessive use of force. The lawsuit was settled for $25,000. How can such men be allowed to “serve and protect”? Unions.

Public-sector unions, including police unions, will do almost anything to protect their members. These unions create a culture of impunity. Even police officers who are terminated can be reinstated, “often via secretive appeals geared to protect labor rights rather than public safety” as a 2014 piece in the Atlantic put it.

The Minneapolis police union has signaled it will fight to ensure the officers fired over George Floyd’s killing get their jobs back. The union’s Lt. Bob Kroll said he’d “worked with the four defense attorneys that are representing each of our four terminated individuals under criminal investigation, in addition with our labor attorneys to fight for their jobs.” This should be a warning of the difficulties inherent in reforming police departments and ending police violence.

But it is clearly time to rethink public-sector unions, and one good place to start would be more and better information. There will be no improvement until officers are no longer protected at all costs by unions.

Source

 

[cinnefille]

...and there are approximately 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers serving in the usa, how many 'bad apples' are stinking up the barrel? 8,000

how about starting with throwing out all bad apples?
and if the number's ONLY 8,000, that shouldn't be too hard, right?

only 8,000. out there, destroying decency in communities across america.


i fully support decent policing, but it's way past time (decades/centuries even) for mayors and governors, chiefs of police and all officers to put that into practice.

You should google Australian/Nz press for fun.

Several whistleblowers came forward about the bullying culture from within the Police and Fire Brigades. Policemen were being bullied by their psychopaths as well.

So the Australian Institute against Bullying was created.
Soon after it's creation, employees exposed how they themselves were being bullied at the Institute.

I think the problem is larger and more ludicrous than just the Police.

 

[Adre]

There is no profession that can claim a 99% rate of excellence. Cops are no better or worse than doctors, plumbers, teachers or bricklayers. A certain number of each suck even though they want to be good. And another number don’t care if they’re good or not. The rest are pretty good or even great. But we should stop with the all cops or all soldiers or all teachers deserve our admiration or respect. Not all of them do.

 

[AlotLikePsyche]

Bad apples are not the problem. Individuals should be held accountable (prosecuted), but not held exclusively accountable. When we blame the individuals only it absolves law enforcement (and the rest of us) from being accountable to solve the larger problem. The problems of racism and police brutality are systemic. In the culture. In the water. In the militarization. The over-policing of black communities. The racial profiling. The fear of black men. The ability to use deadly force whenever you “feel” threatened... those things aren’t changed by firing “the bad ones.”

 

[cinnefille]

........

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://i.redd.it/ujnuccqi2j151.png

This tweet is so evergreen, it doesn't even drop needles in the fall.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Hire only black cops. Then they can kill anyone they want and nobody will care.

 

[RobDownSouth]

There is no profession that can claim a 99% rate of excellence. Cops are no better or worse than doctors, plumbers, teachers or bricklayers. A certain number of each suck even though they want to be good. And another number don’t care if they’re good or not. The rest are pretty good or even great. But we should stop with the all cops or all soldiers or all teachers deserve our admiration or respect. Not all of them do.

Airline Pilots.
robnod

In fairness to cops (not that cops are fair to others), airline pilots undergo rigorous training and follow procedures to the letter.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Airline Pilots.
robnod

In fairness to cops (not that cops are fair to others), airline pilots undergo rigorous training and follow procedures to the letter.

wut?

Airline pilots aren't shot at for a living, though they drink about the same as cops (on duty).

 

[RobDownSouth]

wut?

Airline pilots aren't shot at for a living, though they drink about the same as cops (on duty).

oh? so getting shot at excuses bad behaviors? Well, that would explain Boogaloo Boy, for sure...(even if he was shot by his fellow troops).

 

[Saint_Ann]

oh? so getting shot at excuses bad behaviors? Well, that would explain Boogaloo Boy, for sure...(even if he was shot by his fellow troops).

No. But it explains how some people get dead.

 

[RobDownSouth]

No. But it explains how some people get dead.

Well it would appear that the general public seems a tad fed up with the police department's "shoot first, shoot often" policies.

 

[icanhelp1]

...and there are approximately 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers serving in the usa, how many 'bad apples' are stinking up the barrel? 8,000

how about starting with throwing out all bad apples?
and if the number's ONLY 8,000, that shouldn't be too hard, right?

only 8,000. out there, destroying decency in communities across america.


i fully support decent policing, but it's way past time (decades/centuries even) for mayors and governors, chiefs of police and all officers to put that into practice.

How about starting with you finding a country where the cops are 100%, maybe move in with FUZZYNUTS in Canada!

 

[cinnefille]

Hire only black cops. Then they can kill anyone they want and nobody will care.

OR
Defund Police, like so many proposed
and replace it with a Conscription system
in which ALL citizens are trained and then mandated to take turns in patrolling certain Chicago neighborhoods

That will calm their woke feefees in 1-2-3!

 

[jaF0]

wut?

Airline pilots aren't shot at for a living,

Ask the pilots of KAL007 and MH17, among others. Oh wait ....

... you can't. They went kaboom.

 

[Mal_Huevo]

Hire only black cops. Then they can kill anyone they want and nobody will care.

Poor racist trAnnie, always stuck on stupid.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Ask the pilots of KAL007 and MH17, among others. Oh wait ....

... you can't. They went kaboom.

The first one went kaboom 37 years ago....you really had to reach for that one.

It's been 11 years since the last US air crash (Buffalo 2009). And even when they do crash, very rarely is it "pilot error".

 

[Klinkster]

Maybe you kids should take a look at what happened to how testing was done, and most importantly, changed, for police officers, from the 70's on.
Might be a place to look at why we get some non-qualified people.....and maybe....we need to revert to the requirements then.

But....I don't suppose you know what I'm talking about.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Well it would appear that the general public seems a tad fed up with the police department's "shoot first, shoot often" policies.

How do you factor in the majority of justified shootings that save lives? Don't take the shot?

This will all blow over when the General Public's short attention span flips over to the next media generated outrage.

I tell you what though, handcuff the police and crime and murders will increase, because this does nothing to address the actual causes of crime.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Ask the pilots of KAL007 and MH17, among others. Oh wait ....

... you can't. They went kaboom.

Not even close to equivalence.