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Police officer who dragged NFL player Tyreek Hill from car had problem record
(www.theguardian.com)
Fire. Problematic. Cops.
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Now, now, disbanding the entire police force seems pretty drastic.
And yet...
We can fire them but who will replace them. I feel I rarely meet people who say they want to be a cop, compared to fire fighters, EMTs, and military.
Not enough people who want to be the change.
Into. The. Sun.
In Tyreek's post-arrest press conference he asked rhetorically "what would have happened if I hadn't been famous?"
Well, now we see. Wrist-slaps with no actual long-term impact.
The roid officer?
Yeah, I could see that.
If you have a CDL there is a federal database that tracks drug and alcohol offenses that had become mandatory to enroll in for most jobs in the industry.
Why don't we have something like that for cops?
Maybe it tracks reports of discipline and can be used by the public to file complaints with police departments.
I know something like this is talked about a lot but we already built something similar for truckers. There are 1.36 million CDL holders and 708,000 cops. Seems like it'd be pretty easy to copy their homework.
That could even be a private service. What is the service about rating professors? I don't think schools and teachers have to be involved with that. I don't think the police need involvement either.
Maybe someone should do a RateMyArrest site?
How many times can you be disciplined without getting fired? Also what warrants a 20 day suspension, I betting someone died.
The whole incident was just bizarre. So many cops, so much violence and yelling, and so much lying by the cops. And the violent cop.. it was clearly not his first rodeo.
AND YET STILL A COP
Fucking hell disciplinary record stretching over 25 of his 27 years but still a fucking cop.
I always thought it was normal to not roll your window down all the way when stopped by a cop.
The order to roll it down, on a speeding citation especially, strikes me as an attempt to search the vehicle.
There was no reasonable anything to think he was in danger.
It was a speeding ticket.
And the guy was driving a car worth more than the cops retirement fund.
Except, driver black.
ACAB
Also no seatbelt? The guy act as a cunt. Is it illegal to act like a cunt? No.
I'm not losing tears over it. I'm even glad they knocked him down a notch. He escalated it. But cops = bad so it's okay.
Shocker there. Really. Think I might die of a heart attack from not-surprise.
Suspensions become worthless when they are treated like vacations. Guy should’ve been fired after the first offense.
Name five cops who don't.
He's still a cup because of the laws called police officers bill of rights. They ensure that rogue cops have no accountability. Repeal those laws and institute a registry, and it'll clean up these bad apples
Bad cop. No donut.
Shocker