No charges for officers who shot woman in back of patrol car

ttystikk said:

I think shooting cops is extremely counter productive if we are serious as a country about building a better and more accountable police force.

I understand we need police. I question the idea that they need to be armed at all times. I find it completely unacceptable that they not be held personally liable for what they do- this is a trend that must be reversed in this country, for ALL levels of public service.

I have respect for cops who are doing their job to the best of their ability. I'd respect them even more if they got rid of their own bad apples, because they understand that bad cops make the system more dangerous for them and everyone.

That is one basic tenet of the idea of professionalism itself; that true professionals will work to weed out the incompetent from their own ranks. If police would like to be regarded as professionals, maybe their internal review boards should look less like union grievance committees and more like the enforcement bodies they were created to be.

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