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Right, no matter how many people police assault or even murder there are virtually zero DAs willing to prosecute them. That’s what you are talking about, right?
by tehwebguy 5y ago
Right, no matter how many people police assault or even murder there are virtually zero DAs willing to prosecute them. That’s what you are talking about, right?
There are of course the extremely rare cases where they’ll pretend to press charges and use a grand jury to get them dropped (e.g. Torgalski & McCabe), and the even more rare case where the murder gains so much publicity that they’ll have to pursue a real case (e.g. Chauvin) or is so incredibly heinous and brutal (e.g. Michael Valva) but by and large police will never face prosecution.
- redis_mlc 5y ago> no matter how many people police assault or even murder That's hyperbole. There's 10 million arrests per year in the US by armed police, and only a handful of fatalities. Having said that, DAs were not doing their job, and police unions are a large part of that. And there has been no progress on the latter. Regarding the George Floyd case, Chauvin will probably get off on appeal because of the political meddling, which went all the way up to the White House.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago> Right, no matter how many people police assault or even murder there are virtually zero DAs willing to prosecute them. That’s what you are talking about, right? You're being intentionally obtuse. The person I'm replying to is talking about the rampant petty property crime (see for example the recent walgreens video that's bouncing around the internet) that they decline to prosecute sufficiently even in the most flagrant cases. But yes, the DA should prosecute cops too because equality under law. And they fail at that more or less nationwide so it doesn't explain why property crime is so much more rampant in places like SF and Seattle than it is in places like Chicago and Cleveland.