There
has appeared, for decades, to be a need for a federal agency to hold
police accountable for their activity. Police unions defend everybody
all the time and local prosecutors hesitate to mess with their
associated police departments.
It does not seem to be getting
through to the local, county, and other, law enforcement agencies
that they are not judge, jury and, too often, executioner.
That
three officers watched while a knee to the neck killed a cuffed, face
down man; didn't occur to officers to check to see if the suspect
that they were after was already in custody, let alone that they were
at the wrong address; reported the correct license plate, but didn't
check the state that issued it...
Time and again police
refuse the responsibility for mistakes made on the job that injure
and kill; don't care to understand that they have great
responsibility with the power of their office.
There needs to be
a federal, Law Enforcement Inspector General; a database that keeps
officers, fired for cause, from moving to a new job (in law
enforcement) at a different department; a penitentiary that keeps
convicted officers out of the incarcerated population that might
resent their presence to death.
That requires a Blue Tsunami
because today's Republicans are against responsibility and everything
else a Democrat might support.
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