• AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    The officer involved in the shooting has been placed on administrative leave, state police said.

    They need to start keeping then in jail cells like they do with everyone else whi commits a homicide

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      5 months ago

      That would have to be negotiated in the Police Union contracts. Same reason they can’t fire pedo teachers immediately, they are contractually obligated to keep paying them until they are investigated or found guilty.

      Most of these cops “retire” to end the internal investigation and keep their benefits, then decide to “unretire”, and get hired in the next town with a clean record.

      The police have one of the strongest unions in America, and almost no one bats an eye. But let Starbucks employees try to unionize and you’ll hear how greedy and corrupt unions are.

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        5 months ago

        Fuck that. State or federal police should be arresting them that day. The local cops bargaining only matters because we allow it.

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        Most of these cops “retire” to end the internal investigation and keep their benefits, then decide to “unretire”, and get hired in the next town with a clean record.

        This is honestly the only real problem imo. I get sometimes it’s a pretty obvious case, but we do still have due process and they deserve their time in court, no matter how shit they are.

        If they couldn’t investigate themselves and the investigations didn’t just end when they quit, we’d be in a much better place.