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NYPD Officers Can Lie and Brutally Beat People – And Still Keep Their Jobs
- gnode 9y agoI wonder whether a reason for this is that it would be legally impossible for the city to fire the officers for their actions whilst simultaneously denying wrongdoing in legal battles (to seek a lower settlement).
- tdb7893 9y agoMy main complaint about police is that they just aren't subject to the same laws as everyone else. Besides the more attention grabbing abuses one thing that really bothers me is that they can't really even be held accountable for simple things like speeding even when they are off duty. I've never understood the justification that the laws that are important enough to enforce on the general populace aren't important enough to enforce on themselves.
- gnode 9y agoI don't think anyone really agrees that it's right, it's just that peers won't enforce the law against each other, especially if nobody above them will. For this reason, there's often a police of the police, such as Internal Affairs in the US, but they're usually interested in larger infractions than speeding.