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This sounds an awful lot like a PR move, not justice nor a way to ensure the same never happens again.

by rualca 6y ago

ncmncm 6y ago
Yes, firing the officer is the standard way to avoid actually doing anything meaningful about the violation. The perp normally moves right into another police force, and gets to leave behind their abuses file. The only response that has a chance of an effect is to file murder charges against the officer; so, anything else is nothing more than PR.
- isaac21259 6y ago
  There is an actual term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_cop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_cop
  - noir_lord 6y ago
    Nationally License cops like we license Nurses.
    - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
      Licensed to practice law but not to enforce it.
gorgonzola88 6y ago
Do you expect the mayor and head of police of one city to take on the entire hierarchy themselves? That’s rather like expecting collective action by the public; ha! 40%-ish of jobs are at home. Keep your laptop closed today. It’s not a moral failure on the part of Louisville leadership. Their roles are well defined by law and precedent. Legislative capture is the problem, fueled entirely by public indifference.
- rualca 6y ago
  > Do you expect the mayor and head of police of one city to take on the entire hierarchy themselves? Since when do you need a lot of excuses to stop state officials from indiscriminately murdering anyone without absolutely no consequence?
  - gorgonzola88 6y ago
    Since forever? Whiskey Rebellion, Kent State, etc. More recently, since 1967: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
- tehwebguy 6y ago
  When district attorney or one Attorney General is all it takes to make the charge. So yes, I do expect the proper outcome.
  - gorgonzola88 6y ago
    When the police have qualified immunity, public apathy, one of the only unions left with teeth, and an authoritarian complex from President on down, this is the “proper outcome”.

This sounds an awful lot like a PR move, not justice nor a way to ensure the same never happens again.

by rualca 6y ago

This sounds an awful lot like a PR move, not justice nor a way to ensure the same never happens again.

Yes, firing the officer is the standard way to avoid actually doing anything meaningful about the violation. The perp normally moves right into another police force, and gets to leave behind their abuses file. The only response that has a chance of an effect is to file murder charges against the officer; so, anything else is nothing more than PR.

isaac21259 6y ago
There is an actual term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_cop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_cop
- noir_lord 6y ago
  Nationally License cops like we license Nurses.
  - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
    Licensed to practice law but not to enforce it.

gorgonzola88 6y ago

Do you expect the mayor and head of police of one city to take on the entire hierarchy themselves? That’s rather like expecting collective action by the public; ha! 40%-ish of jobs are at home. Keep your laptop closed today. It’s not a moral failure on the part of Louisville leadership. Their roles are well defined by law and precedent. Legislative capture is the problem, fueled entirely by public indifference.

rualca 6y ago
> Do you expect the mayor and head of police of one city to take on the entire hierarchy themselves? Since when do you need a lot of excuses to stop state officials from indiscriminately murdering anyone without absolutely no consequence?
- gorgonzola88 6y ago
  Since forever? Whiskey Rebellion, Kent State, etc. More recently, since 1967: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
tehwebguy 6y ago
When district attorney or one Attorney General is all it takes to make the charge. So yes, I do expect the proper outcome.
- gorgonzola88 6y ago
  When the police have qualified immunity, public apathy, one of the only unions left with teeth, and an authoritarian complex from President on down, this is the “proper outcome”.