Hypothetical. I work as a bank teller. A woman comes in and gets angry because she doesn’t want to pay a late fee. I grab her by the collar, slap her two times and tell her to give me my fucking money.
She sues. The bank settles out of court.
I get two weeks of paid vacation, then go right back to work, and the settlement money is added to the tax burden of the property owners surrounding the bank. So the bank never has to pay anything.
I keep doing this and I’m never fired.
^ this is the current system of police immunity. It is absolutely solvable using legislation.
I am tired of people defending the police for any reason. The system is so badly broken that they are getting away with murder, almost every day, and our prisons are overflowing.
I am completely losing respect and sympathy for anyone who credits the police with doing a “necessary job”. The reason that this system continues is people keep jumping into defend them. We need to treat them like what they are.
Not just murder. They can legally rob people and they do.
I like the pretty term they made up for it: “Civil Forfeiture”. Reminds me of the term “enhanced interrogation techniques”.
I’m with you.
I do not speak to police about anything, and if they ever wanted my testimony my inclination would be to misdirect, just in the knowledge of how awful they treat people and not wanting to be party to a summary execution.
