This police officer has been suspended for a month without pay. As, I said in my recent post, police officers are given a lot of faith to hold better standards than the average person. The problem is when they dont actually hold such standards, they are usually granted excuses and lesser punishments. In 1996, this officer was found negligent in an accident that left a father of four paralyzed (alb.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5948373). The victims longterm girlfriend said, If Doug had been in the sheriffs deputys shoes, Doug would have been in prison now. One comment on the video from a former police officer suggests that the officer should be more harshly charged with criminal disorderly conduct and assault. But think about it this way: A man open-carrying a deadly weapon confronts you in a threatening manner, hits you, and demands access to your car. This is much more than disorderly conduct and assault. Be it a one month suspension or an assault charge, the good cops seem to always want to grant their fellow thin-blue-liners relative slaps on the wrist. This is why this bad apple makes us look bad, doesnt hold up. I dont think its a simple bias toward cops, though. I think its an entire perspective that underestimates the faith granted to police officers. The power they have cannot thoroughly be checked. What if this cop struck the victim harder, broke his camera, or drew his weapon? Whats stopping him from doing these things? Nothing; faith. And these things DO happen... very often (see Cop Block). But why wouldnt it? Cops are people too. They have the same flaws as everyone else, including those flaws which deem cops necessary in the first place. This fits my argument against government in general. One might say, people do x therefore we need some people to do y. I would say, people wont do y, because as you said, they do x.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:00:35 +0000
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