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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
I agree, but verdicts are also about criminal intent. Maybe the jury was stupid, or racially biased, who knows? Maybe the jury had cause to believe that this officer would not intentionally shoot a man he knew to be no threat. I'll have to look into it more.
@thorn69
If you are a law enforcement officer, you should rethink your conduct. You are not Judge Dredd, and the sanctity of the law is violated everytime you choose not to uphold it or uphold it excessively. Your statement here alone is enough to call your character into question in a trial, assuming we can prove that thorn69 is you.
I don't want to bash on you, as I've served alongside enough law-enforcement professionals to know that their job is made unnecessarily difficult and even hopeless, occassionally, but "consummate professionalism" should be your standing order at all times, even in matters of opinion. It isn't fair, but as long as you hold a position in which you are publicly accountable, it is your duty to uphold the integrity and character of your service. This isn't a legal argument, just personal advice.
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I do my job and I do my job quite well! But as I've already said, I get labeled an a-hole no matter which way I decide to go on a specific matter. Police work is always questioned one way or the other because it always intervenes between two differing viewpoints. So one side isn't going to be happy when an arrest is made and the other side is. That's just how it is!
I've never excessively done, or not done, anything unless you're talking about excessively tacking on more and more charges on a
criminal violator? That's every police officer though. We all do that for the reason I mentioned in another post. We want arrests to stick and for criminals to go to jail for the longest duration possible and pay the heaviest fines. It makes the streets safer for people for a longer period of time.
Of course our very liberal justice system seems to have a big heart for these criminal lowlifes and consistently allows them to come back again and again to re-commit their crimes on our society. That's the part I've never really understood, especially when it's always the same old bozos out there doing the same old
criminal thing. I've arrested some folks over 25 times for the same exact crime. You'd think they'd learn?
But what it is - is they just don't care. The laws are too lax and it's all a joke to them. They know they will be out on the streets again to recommit their same old crime again. It's a way of life for them. I just wish we could suprise them and say, "That's strike 25 pal, time for you to get used to prison for the rest of your life!"
You know, I've noted there are quite a few bleeding heart liberals on this site with a "hug-a-thug" mentality. That's sad!