Cop Flees While DUI - 111 MPH

You have no idea who has or hasn't done anything. This is a made up assumption on your part.

Arbitrary" means "based on random choice or personal whim"...

So is being drunk, evading police and driving 110+ MPH against the law? If it is, then why did you take exception to this thread? Because there wasn't a "praising of the majority" of cops?

Whatever we give someone a badge and a gun and give them that much responsibility, then they should be held to a higher standard of accountability.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to prosecute bad cops. That doesn't mean I hate all cops

No, that's your opinion.




I think you read what I said. Hold the guilty accountable. Same as with the FBI. Biden should have been impeached 10x already, never mind the son. Whole family is corrupt.

No, that's your opinion.




I think you read what I said. Hold the guilty accountable. Same as with the FBI. Biden should have been impeached 10x already, never mind the son. Whole family is corrupt.

Mmmm humm same thing with people who drive drunk, hit someone and have famous wives.... Sorry, had to say it.

If we are honest we do have a serious problem in America. We have an elite class that get away with what ever they do.
We also have a problem of the police protecting their own even when its an egregious offense. And to say it's just a few is not an excuse. We entrust the folks with far too much power to shrug our shoulders at a few bad apples. Ya ever heard one bad apple can spoil the bunch?
I understand the fraternal concept but those fraternities should hold each other to the highest standards. Not cover for each other in particularly heinous behaviors. All the officers involved in that situation should be fired and their licenses to be a police officer revoked permanently.
A mistake can be over looked because all are human. But when it comes to putting the public at large in danger. It really must be met with severe repercussions. Especially if you are a public official or social elite.

And you don't think exposing corrupt cops is "holding them accountable"? Once again, why did you take exception to the video?

It's actually a fact that you're moving the goal post. You even brought up Nancy Pelosi's drunk husband getting a sweetheart deal after the police investigators and the DA colluded.

That was a nice red herring

You've started two threads that are anti- police. And when I say acknowledge those who do a good job, root out the bad, you say I have no proof there are good cops. That's a biased statement if I've ever heard one.

No, what's a fact is you have an agenda that you are pushing here. And when someone has a different opinion you don't want to discuss it. It doesn't work that way here.

Of course I don't have the data... For this reason I won't give ignorant and arbitrary figures as to how many of them are good verses corrupt. Instead, I posted a story of one instance... yet you want to conflate it with ALL cops that play basketball with kids for some unknown reason.

You've started two threads that are anti- police. And when I say acknowledge those who do a good job, root out the bad, you say I have no proof there are good cops. That's a biased statement if I've ever heard one.

I'll also expand and say that there are many "good cops" who choose to let bad cops continue being bad cops because of the culture of protecting them.

This is why people call them the "Blue Line Gang". That is exactly how gang members act... protect their own when they are caught breaking the law. The only difference is that the Blue Line Gang have badges and guns and ought to be held to a higher standard.

You're being blatantly dishonest with what I've said. I never said "you have no proof there are good cops". I said you gave an arbitrary figure of other cops doing good deeds to counter the video exposing the actions of this corrupt cop. You DON'T have any real proof of the ratio of good to bad cops

. In your opinion it's "thousands" of good cops to one bad cop

. you instead tried to defend his actions

I have watched many "accountability" videos, including the one in the OP (prior to seeing it here). If there is one thing I have learned from all those videos, it's that there is a terrible culture of entitlement and misguided assumption of authority among police that is not backed up by statute. The utter rejection of people's Constitutional rights for (both in the US and elsewhere) is appalling. Frankly, I think that
officers who abuse their position should be held to the same standard they hold suspected criminals: guilty until proven innocent. No "paid administrative leave", no "reassignment pending investigation", no quiet cover-ups by the "thin blue line".

However, I also have friends who are or were police officers. There are many good officers who fulfill their responsibilities with humility and integrity. I won't speculate on which is the majority.

Policing, like much of our culture, is broken. It isn't going to be fixed by bashing and decrying, but if police officers knew they would lose their jobs, be sued personally, or be jailed if they abuse their authority, they might rethink how they treat people when on the job, or in the case of the OP, how they act when off the job.

On a related note, any system that uses quotas (or any form of incentive) for certain offenses is abuse looking for a place to happen. Power corrupts.