re: If you are a cop, quit your job.

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don't know. You pick. It doesn't matter to me.

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Not even slightly surprising.

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Many people never face consequences for their actions. The world is full of them. Is that your argument, that some things aren't fair?

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Not at all, but not surprising that as a cop you would have such a simplistic view on things.

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am wholly unfamiliar with his case,

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Go watch the video. It’s still online.

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but it sounds like your beef here is with the judge or jury or DA, not the rest of the rank and file officers.

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My problem is with all of them.

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They didn't have make the decision on what he was charged with or what he was convicted of or what his sentence would be.

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They made the decision to protect him as witnesses during the trial.

They made the decision to rehire him after the trial so he could collect his taxpayer funded pension.

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Was Rice the one who had the toy gun that looked like the real gun and neighbors called and said he was pointing it at people? Again, sounds like your beef is elsewhere.

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You mean the one where the 12 year old playing with a toy gun in a public park was murdered by a cop playing Rambo that couldn’t even wait until the car stopped moving before shooting him? And then lied after the fact about rice ignoring commands to drop the toy gun because he didn’t realize there was a surveillance camera on that area of the park? Yea that’s the one.

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Well, it isn't widespread. Your own figure was more than half, and that's just clown stuff. Unless I'm wrong, of course. Please define the subjective term "widespread" and omit "pervasive" because, by definition, police corruption is not pervasive.

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This entire paragraph is nothing but you saying “nah uh, because I said so” with absolutely no substance. I could spend even more time naming cases from a number of large metro areas all around this country, and it would be completely pointless because you will just continue to ignore it while insisting this issue only exists with “hillbilly deputies”

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Again, it seems like your beef is with the courts, judges, juries, etc., not the rest of the officers who have no say on whether anyone, police or otherwise, is charged or not charged or convicted or not convicted.

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Yes, I also have an issue with the DA is St. Louis that brought unconstitutional charges against the mccloskeys, and the judge that signed the unconstitutional warrant for their arrest. And I’ve never said or implied differently.

But as has already been mentioned in this thread, “I’m just doing my job” is not a valid excuse. So the cops get blame too.

And I’ll take that as a no, you don’t want to take that deal. I wonder why.

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Again, your beef is beyond the rank and file. The majority of your issues don't stem from line officers, it seems. You have an issue with charges, prosecutions, trials, and sentencing, none of which are performed by officers. Well charging...kinda, but not really.

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I get it. You’re either not intelligent enough or just afraid to come up with an actual response, but I’ve said many many times my issue is with the cops that break the law and violate constitutional rights, and the other cops that protect them. Just because you can’t/won’t come up with a response to that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

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The funny thing is that you don't vote for which officer gets hired, but you do very likely vote for judges, DAs, mayors, etc., and those are the ones that are actually pulling the strings. Have you addressed any of these points with people of influence, or just the guy that used to police a long time ago?

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The funnier thing is you failing at deflecting blame from shitty cops by trying to act like I don’t have an issue with all of the other people and groups you mentioned instead of addressing the multiple points about shitty cop behavior.

And of course, when you do attempt to address it you pretend the issues are relegated to “hillbilly deputies” and claim it’s not pervasive by definition. Not because of any facts or supporting argument, just because you said so.

Oh yea, and cops not facing consequences for their actions is the same as doctors having malpractice insurance.

Tons of absolute idiots in this thread.

It's nice to make a difference in a community you enjoy living in. Whether it's returning stolen property to an owner, arresting an abusive spouse who makes their SO life a living hell, helping addicts get off of drugs by being willing to listen & encourage them because they haven't gotten it anywhere else, or getting a murderer off of the street.

Regardless of what the media wants you to believe it's still a very fulfilling job. Are there bad apples who don't deserve to be cops? 1000%. All I can do is treat people how I would want my family treated if they dealt with LEOs. I'm lucky that I make a good living and work in one of the most conservative areas in the country. FTR the retirement is great if you make it there and I couldn't imagine clocking into a desk job everyday and being completely miserable.

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Everyone expects you to never make a mistake. Even in life threatening millisecond situations.

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We talking about the cops or the suspects here?

1. These cops that are bad cops have no other options that gets them the power and benefits.

2. They're too dumb to correct their behavior. If they were smart they would straight up openly stop pursuing any suspects that are black. College kid or professor gets robbed or mugged. "Sorry, in an effort to help create equity we had to let him go. It's your fault for being white".

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Lol you think cops make 60k a year?

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Plenty make nearly double that. Maybe not where you live, but they're out there. Many states have transparency sites (transparentcalifornia.com is one I'm most familiar with). You can search by name, position, etc. and see breakouts of bennies, salary, overtime, etc.

Several states have something similar.

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I already provided my reasoning for how I got that number. Again, just because you can’t or won’t think of a rebuttal doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

Backup your claim that my number is wrong.

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That's not really how it works. See, you throw out a figure, and then you defend it.

Sensibly, if possible.

I'm not sure you're at that point.

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A cops career is 99.99999% coffee and donuts.

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We used to say "squuezing 15 minutes of excitement into a 10 hour shift.

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according to several cops I know, it's not about the Pay it's about the (unofficial) Perks and the Pension

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He’s not exactly wrong, but it’s only because they’re brainwashed into thinking $60k is AWESOME money and because you can receive your base pension (probably around $1200 every 2 weeks) and a “drop” savings after 34 years of service.