Family of tasered 10-year-old boy sues US police

Ah yes, the "cops can do no wrong" ignorance.

Police officers in the United States, and their departments, have a long history of covering up abuse. Even in blatantly clear cut cases of illegal police behaviour the officers involved get put on a desk job, if that, where they should have by all accounts been sent to jail as well as losing their jobs.

An official policing body has already established it is unreliable when it comes to "he said, she said", even in the face of evidence.

So why the (*)(*)(*)(*) should police be given the benefit of the doubt when faced with evidence against their word?

 

The NYPD just locked up two of their own in the week or so before Sandy hit. So I have no idea WTF you are babbling about.

 

I once read that in some states it is ILLEGAL for a citizen to wear a bullet proof vest??!!!

Maybe I read it wrong.

I mean - how can that make sense?

 

I never said that. In fact, I said the exact opposite of that. Everyone can do wrong. My point is that police officers are not automatically more or less likely to do wrong that people in general.

That is true (not the lack of "cops can do no wrong" here). So do schools, churches, government departments, private companies, families... People make mistakes, people are corrupt, people try to cover their backs. Police officers are just people.

I never said they should be given the benefit of the doubt, I'm saying that they shouldn't be treated as sub-human scum because of the uniform they happen to be wearing.

I was specifically challenging the implication that every single police officer in the entire world is an wilful liar. Do you agree that is wrong or are you promoting "cops can do no right" ignorance?

 

I think that it is only natural to try and protect your colleagues plus there will be peer pressure to go with the flow. Even though someone will want to tell the truth it will be very hard to face your colleagues afterwards. Cover ups will occur where ever there are groups of people carrying out a similar job for a particular employer.
If anything, the average police man will, IMO, be more honest than the average person. However, if a policeman is found guilty of abuse, the punishment should be greater than that given to the general public.

 

Totally agree.