SavannahMann
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One of the underlying subjects in my posts on Police Misconduct and Reform is that the times, they are a changing. What a cop could get away with ten years ago, you can’t get away with today. You have to be professional, and you have to be able to justify your actions as not only legal, but proper.
White cop's shocking rant after 'racially profiling' two men in mall parking lot | Daily Mail Online
Well the fallout has fallen, and the cop was not only fired by Nordstrom where he was a part time security guard, but from the Police Force. Two jobs lost, and everyone knows he was wrong. The “backup” officer said he was wrong, and refused to assist him in arresting innocent men. The Chief said he was wrong, and fired him. Nordstrom said he was wrong, and fired him.
So what will happen to our heroic officer now? Who knows. He was already in one small town department, chances are he’ll be working for another one soon. But he should be a lesson to others. Hopefully a lesson where you know you won’t do that because you know what will happen.
It is probably a “there but for the grace of God” lesson for more than a few. You just can’t do that anymore. The era of the cop being right always, is long over. There are more cops all the time processed into prison, and it’s past time for them to figure it out. They can’t do it like it was the bad old days anymore. Too much video, too many witnesses, and too much truth exposed to the world about the cops and how they behave.
Kudos to the second cop, who listened, and then told the first he couldn’t do what he wanted, despite his authoritarian mentality. Civil Rights, if you are a left leaning type, or Civil Liberties, if you are more Libertarian, are coming back in style, and the more cops who insist it isn’t happening, despite all the evidence to the contrary, then the more who will be unemployed, or in jail.
You are a cop, or were. You can’t do whatever you want.
White cop's shocking rant after 'racially profiling' two men in mall parking lot | Daily Mail Online
Well the fallout has fallen, and the cop was not only fired by Nordstrom where he was a part time security guard, but from the Police Force. Two jobs lost, and everyone knows he was wrong. The “backup” officer said he was wrong, and refused to assist him in arresting innocent men. The Chief said he was wrong, and fired him. Nordstrom said he was wrong, and fired him.
So what will happen to our heroic officer now? Who knows. He was already in one small town department, chances are he’ll be working for another one soon. But he should be a lesson to others. Hopefully a lesson where you know you won’t do that because you know what will happen.
It is probably a “there but for the grace of God” lesson for more than a few. You just can’t do that anymore. The era of the cop being right always, is long over. There are more cops all the time processed into prison, and it’s past time for them to figure it out. They can’t do it like it was the bad old days anymore. Too much video, too many witnesses, and too much truth exposed to the world about the cops and how they behave.
Kudos to the second cop, who listened, and then told the first he couldn’t do what he wanted, despite his authoritarian mentality. Civil Rights, if you are a left leaning type, or Civil Liberties, if you are more Libertarian, are coming back in style, and the more cops who insist it isn’t happening, despite all the evidence to the contrary, then the more who will be unemployed, or in jail.
You are a cop, or were. You can’t do whatever you want.