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The news story is that the cop told a lie that caused a person to kill themselves. There's no bias to that; it's a simple cause and effect. The news story doesn
by overgard 7y ago
The news story is that the cop told a lie that caused a person to kill themselves. There's no bias to that; it's a simple cause and effect. The news story doesn't even really editorialize it. It's just what happened. I don't see how paying police more would mean they're never cruel.
And by the way, if you're wondering why he killed himself over this: if he was a drug addict he was probably in trouble with the law a lot. He's probably used to being harassed by cops (hard to say without knowing his identity, but seems pretty likely based on how the law treats addicts). There's a decent chance if caught he was going to get into a lot more trouble than the average person, especially if he had been in and out of the system.
- Out_of_Characte 7y agoOfcouse the story itself doesn't show any bias. But the summation of only seeing police cases of reported injustice is going to create the illusion that there might be something rotten in the police force. The truth is that policework is similar to surgery, 6% might not survive low risk surgeries. The best surgeon will have a lower mortality rate, the worst will hae a significantly higher rate. But we dont shame and blame minor misconduct, misstepts or errors because there is an understanding that surgery is done to the best of our ability, even for the rookie surgeon, and it CAN go wrong against all odds. Yet this simple analysis doesn't get to be applied to these police stories because we're unable to seperate the individual story in which we know with 100% certainty mistakes were made by a policeofficer from the overarching story of policeofficers making the wrong decision 6% of the time.