The Washington Post's newest mission: Officer shaming

Idk... I think officers need to be more accountable for their actions... I don't like that its tax payers that end up paying for dumb/bad/crooked/incompetent cops.

Public shaming has always been silly to me though, much prefer we just had highly paid, highly trained law enforcement instead of 35k being the cost for such an important position.

 

That's a teaser for a series of investigative articles they are publishing about how officers that get fired for cause end up getting their jobs back because of union contract required appeals. I don't really like the marketing approach, but the journalism sounds important. Not only are families not getting convictions when loved ones die in questionable circumstances, they don't even end up removing the officer from the force.

Here's the article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...otings-in-three-years/?utm_term=.a2a77bcdafae

More at the link.

 

We need more officer shaming. They think they can get away with anything and they often do.

 

I agree. A large portion of this country treats them as infallible entities on a pedestal.

It's a very dangerous profession for people to magically wave the aura of infallibility at like many do.

 

Right now, a large portion of this country thinks they just go around shooting unarmed people, too. Where is the other side of 'series', showing that?

Nowhere, I'm sure. Doesn't fit their narrative.

The press has lost its way. It USED to be the one that ran the pieces counter to popular thought. Now they pretty much only run pieces geared to reinforce cognitive bias.

 

Do you think the only complaints people have regarding law enforcement is shooting unarmed people?

There are far more people who think that law enforcement is infallible and that they don't have systemic hiring issues. That's dangerous. It's dangerous to hold an entity that has so much power as infallible or just waving a magic wand across them as if they have no systemic issues.

 

Irony