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The penalties for police abusing the power we grant them should be severe.
by beej71 3mo ago
The penalties for police abusing the power we grant them should be severe.
- iAMkenough 3mo agoBest we can do is a paid vacation and taxpayer-funded settlement, maybe transfer them to neighboring jurisdiction if they were real bad.
- alexpotato 3mo agoApparently in the military, special forces in particular, this is even worse. If you have a terrible soldier in a Tier 1 unit and you are trying to get rid of them via transfer to another unit, when asked why he is transferring you can just say "sorry, that's classified". The receiving unit then has no idea of the problems associated with that soldier.
- GuestFAUniverse 3mo agoDoesn't make sense. As a federal system administrator I face up to 5y prison, if I misuse my permissions. (And I do not carry a weapon.) Why would any police force be so negligible if I comes to punishment of crimes in their own ranks?
- ikidd 3mo agoWorked well enough for the Catholic church that the cops decided to adopt it.
- randycupertino 3mo agoHIPAA is pretty strict and hospitals will flag and fire you if you access unauthorized patients, the police should be subject to the same restrictions for accessing civilian info without cause. They would never police themselves, though.