Originally Posted by
QUERY
Were that the case, our society would be deep trouble. There is the media and there is the FBI to help out when there is police corruption. Also, no one is bulletproof. We had a case here in Milwaukee many years ago where 2 police officers tried to arrest someone who had not done a thing. This guy knew that and feared that he would be killed so he grabbed one of the officer's weapons and killed them both. He was acquitted of the shootings because the evidence turned out to be in his favor. Like I said previously, the bad ones don't last.
As for citizen review boards, I believe they were tried here but citizens don't deal with police matters on a daily basis so they are unfamiliar with how things work. Race factors in here as well. I'd prefer an out-of-state review board composed of ex-LEOs(retired) that have no ties to the locality where they will be evaluating an incident.
I guess you haven't spent much time in south Florida where rampant abuse of people by Sheriff deputies in Palm Beach and Broward Counties is the norm. Speaking up down here is a quick and easy path to either getting your face slammed into the ground with a boot on your head or a fast-track into the back of a police car, cuffed and charged with any number of 'obstruction/resisting' offenses because you lacked respect and compliance.
Police should not be policing each other. Citizen review boards need to be comprised of citizens, not cops. Right now, cops have little to fear. They protect each other, and their union protects them as well. Government lacks the cojones necessary to curtail bad cop practices, so they should leave it to citizen groups to make sure someone is policing the police and removing overly aggressive cops from the force.