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I get what you're saying, but expecting police officers to stand-up to their colleagues when they are breaking the law in their presence is not unreasonable. C

• dragontamer 5y ago
  > I get what you're saying, but expecting police officers to stand-up to their colleagues when they are breaking the law in their presence is not unreasonable. Okay. Lets say hypothetically, a fellow police officer Alice breaks the law in a municipality that doesn't have a citizen's review board. Bob witnesses this lawbreaking behavior. Who does Bob go to? That's why a citizen review board is necessary. To empower Bob to do the right thing in the hypothetical. You can't expect someone to work within the hierarchy (if Alice's boss is on Alice's side, then "rocking the boat" within the hierarchy would just result in Bob's termination). Its like expecting a pitcher's teammate to report on ball doctoring (making a baseball stickier to result in a more chaotic, harder to hit baseball). Nah man, you need a 3rd party, someone outside the team if you want to manage to catch that. And anyone inside the team who wishes to report on the behavior needs assurances that their identity is kept safe and anonymous.