American police are out of control — 12/6

a recurring roll call of bad cops

American cops are armed and dangerous, barely trained, barely supervised. They can get away with anything, and do.

California: Cop who was fired for smoking fentanyl at police station kills 11-year-old son, is fatally shot after I-5 chase

San Diego agrees to pay $30m to family of boy, 16, shot dead by police

California: Oakland police won’t release body camera video of ex-NFL player Doug Martin’s in-custody death

California: Family questions man’s death during ‘use-of-force incident’ with Claremont officers

Video shows San Diego cop kneeling on compliant, handcuffed man until he dies

Colorado: Over a stolen car, cops chase driver into wreck, killing two

Colorado: Jefferson County SWAT leader resigns amid investigation of ‘intoxication’ during Evergreen school shooting response

Florida: Officers caught on camera beating black motorist will not face charges

Over speeding violation, Georgia cops chase driver into wreck, killing three

ICE jails pregnant immigrants for months despite rules against it

Illinois: Oak Lawn to pay $825,000 settlement to man punched by police officer while pinned down in 2022

Chicago promoted two police officers after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct

Louisiana police officer accused of raping young child for years

Maryland: Family of toddler killed in high-speed police chase sues Prince George’s County, two local police departments

Massachusetts state trooper charged in alleged assault on child

Noem’s rush to bolster ICE’s members means applicants who can ‘barely read or write’ are being accepted, report says

Of course, an ordinary cop is not too bright, either.

Sweet plea bargain for Missouri cop who accessed and stole at least 20 women’s nudes from their phones

New Jersey cops, suspended with pay for overt racism, have continued collecting their six-figure salaries and yearly raises for five years, and counting…

Ohio: Fired cop pleads guilty to rape, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, sexual battery, disseminating matter harmful to juveniles and illegal use of a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material or performance

Ohio: Cop gets 20-day suspension for beating of handcuffed prisoner

Almost always, when the media reports a police officer’s ‘suspension’, it’s a suspension with pay. 95% chance that’s what this is: the cop’s punishment is a paid vacation.

Over traffic violation, Oklahoma cops chase driver into fatal wreck

ICE officers reveal arrest quotas, facial recognition use in Oregon dragnet

Vermont: Report blames death of rookie cop on policy violations by three veterans

99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

That’s the solution.

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