County sheriffs wield lethal power, face little accountability: "A failure of democracy" - CBS News What did we expect when our response to protests about police violence was to give them more money and less accountability? One other interesting finding here is that the killings in rural and non-urban areas outpace those in cities.
Record is only temporary. Wait till next year when "deportation resistance", as defined by Stephen Miller, is met with Presidentially immunized deadly force.
They’re the biggest gang in America, so they can easily get away with killing people. Now here’s the part where the police defenders cry to the mods to get this thread locked.
From the article this is some significant part: problems were more prevalent in smaller, more remote communities where deputies typically had less training, fewer resources and limited oversight. I see that in my dinky town - we have a “Constitutional Sheriff” who has a good many deputies barely out of HS. Currently there is a lawsuit over a double shooting by LE that will likely be won by the plaintiffs and will result in my property taxes being raised again. Reading this I wondered if it is solely attributable to changes in LE or if some civilian deaths could be attributable to changes in the citizenry such that we are more likely to square off against LE. Hard to know without breaking a large data point into many and more granular data.
Those things could be related. If your small town replaces a professional PD with a sheriff and his cronies, and suddenly some loser you knew in HS or a pimple faced 18 year old deputy is talking down to you, you might react different.
Adjust qualified immunity, but the right would never let that happen as police unions are big supporters of theirs
I'd like to see us get to a point to where we don't need to have police officers physically engage drivers to issue citations. Maybe even have chat sessions between the two vehicles (while pulled over) where possible. It would lead to far fewer confrontations while at the same time not putting police officers in nearly as many situations where they feel legitimately threatened. If a vehicle is registered, why does a registration need to be provided? All that information should be on the computers that the police officers have (same with insurance information). ID should be able to be validated either through a window or through a video chat session if it's even necessary. Go GATORS! ,WESGATORS
I have seen leftists argue that passing laws to make things illegal does not work. That it is not an effective deterrent. To pivot here and jettison that argument in this instance would be an interesting inconsistency.
Isn't that also one of the common arguments used in opposition to stricter gun laws and regulations? That criminals don't follow the law anyway? I feel like I've heard that sort of argument from either side depending on the context/issue.
