SavannahMann
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There are few more conservative states than Georgia. Georgia joined several other states in an effort to ban abortion for one example of this Conservative Trend. Yet, even in Conservative Georgia, the words “I was afeared for my life” no longer provide the impenetrable shield against consequences for Police.
Former Georgia police officer Robert Olsen is sentenced to 12 years in prison in shooting death | Daily Mail Online
In this case, the officer shot a naked man who was running around. The man, with a history of mental issues reportedly associated with his time in the Air Force, was literally naked. So the argument that he might have had a concealed weapon was just not going to fly.
Twelve years in Prison, eight years of Probation. Georgia Prisons are awful. I watched a documentary where the issue of prisoner on prisoner violence was discussed. The guards were universal in their comments. They said the guards were there to insure nobody left, in other words escaped. Whatever happened inside was irrelevant, so long as nobody escaped.
I thought then and still believe that this was a idiotic sentiment. When you take custody of anything, you are responsible for it. If you accept a package for a neighbor, and your child smashes it with a baseball bat, you have to make amends. You had custody, and thus responsibility.
That aside, I think the important part of this issue, is how even in Georgia, the cops are being held responsible for things that they would have gotten away with just a few years ago.
No doom and gloom scenarios have appeared. The cops are still out on the street doing their thing. I still see cops out writing tickets, and no reports of cops refusing to show up and deal with crime. So the anarchy predictions of the insane right are not coming true. I say insane right, because even in Georgia, Conservative Georgia, where I am a Liberal by local standards, the police are being held to account for their actions.
Of course, by the local standards of San Francisco, or New York City, I am a raging conservative gun nut.
Now, the question is when will the Department’s and the Academy’s change to reflect this reality? I am betting more cops get prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to Prison before the departments adjust their training and policies to admit the truth. If this continues much longer, I wonder if we will see Prison Reform as one of the platforms the Police Unions are suddenly behind? I personally would welcome that change.
Former Georgia police officer Robert Olsen is sentenced to 12 years in prison in shooting death | Daily Mail Online
In this case, the officer shot a naked man who was running around. The man, with a history of mental issues reportedly associated with his time in the Air Force, was literally naked. So the argument that he might have had a concealed weapon was just not going to fly.
Twelve years in Prison, eight years of Probation. Georgia Prisons are awful. I watched a documentary where the issue of prisoner on prisoner violence was discussed. The guards were universal in their comments. They said the guards were there to insure nobody left, in other words escaped. Whatever happened inside was irrelevant, so long as nobody escaped.
I thought then and still believe that this was a idiotic sentiment. When you take custody of anything, you are responsible for it. If you accept a package for a neighbor, and your child smashes it with a baseball bat, you have to make amends. You had custody, and thus responsibility.
That aside, I think the important part of this issue, is how even in Georgia, the cops are being held responsible for things that they would have gotten away with just a few years ago.
No doom and gloom scenarios have appeared. The cops are still out on the street doing their thing. I still see cops out writing tickets, and no reports of cops refusing to show up and deal with crime. So the anarchy predictions of the insane right are not coming true. I say insane right, because even in Georgia, Conservative Georgia, where I am a Liberal by local standards, the police are being held to account for their actions.
Of course, by the local standards of San Francisco, or New York City, I am a raging conservative gun nut.
Now, the question is when will the Department’s and the Academy’s change to reflect this reality? I am betting more cops get prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to Prison before the departments adjust their training and policies to admit the truth. If this continues much longer, I wonder if we will see Prison Reform as one of the platforms the Police Unions are suddenly behind? I personally would welcome that change.