Opinion Do you Trust the Integrity of the Police?

[Chesten_Hesten]

Of course this is a relative question. The article below got me wondering what most people's consensus is however.. I'd say overall the answer would be yes, "trusted"



However it certainly can't be denied Police officers are absolutely in a position which if abused could have devastating effects on civilians.

Who guards the guards?

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/n...ll-testify-investigation-database/2233386001/
Oddly this article has been update in the future: "Updated 2:26 p.m. CDT Oct. 17, 2019"

The first case noted in the article sounds outlandish on many levels.. 25 year sentence for DWI.

Question: Should a police officer's background be relevant in a case to prosecution?

In the Article:

The investigation found:

• Thousands of people have faced criminal charges or gone to prison based in part on testimony from law enforcement officers deemed to have credibility problems by their bosses or by prosecutors.
• At least 300 prosecutors’ offices across the nation are not taking steps necessary to comply with the Supreme Court mandates. These places do not have a list tracking dishonest or otherwise untrustworthy officers. They include big cities such as Chicago and Little Rock and smaller communities such as Jackson County, Minnesota, and Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
• In many places that keep lists, police and prosecutors refuse to make them public, making it impossible to know whether they are following the law.
• Others keep lists that are incomplete. USA TODAY identified at least 1,200 officers with proven histories of lying and other serious misconduct who had not been flagged by prosecutors. Of those officers, 261 were specifically disciplined for dishonesty on the job.

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Discuss.

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

Are some cops bad? Absolutely

But I certainly value their integrity More so than I do the "integrity" of criminals, leftists, race baiters and others who constantly malign all police officers.

Oh, and in before someone calls me a boot licker.

That being said, police officers who abuse their authority should face very harsh penalties., and the same goes for prosecutors, especially those who overlook or withhold exculpatory evidence to secure a conviction

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Yeah but I'm white who can afford awesome legal representation. So cops don't trigger me

 

[babycart]

Nope. Integrity will go to hell in the face of benefits.

 

[jk7707]

The big thing that irks me is that the departments/unions will defend bad cops even when it's obvious that they've fucked up.

 

[babycart]

The big thing that irks me is that the departments/unions will defend bad cops even when it's obvious that they've fucked up.

They serve the people...























IN POWER!

If you're powerless, well.. too bad for you. Better get a camera and become a whistleblower for your own protection.

 

[SammyPops]

Nope, there are so many minority and female cops in Toronto that white males are fucked.

 

[tonysmasseuse]

I have no reason whatsoever to distrust our police force. (Denmark).

I only regret that their job/efficiency is limited by red tape and EU bureaucracy.

 

[jamel]

Fuuuuck no.

I dont trust anybody that dont get along with the fire dept.

 

[BForrester]

I do, but I'm a college educated, middle-class white male. The Criminal Justice system I face is different than which some in our population face. On the rare occasion I have a run-in with Johnny Law, exclusively for traffic violations, I'm not treated as a suspected criminal.

I guess that's a two-sided answer of "yes and no".

 

[panamaican]

Individuals, yes. I've met some very nice and trustworthy individuals who are police.

The police as a group, no. I think the institution has enough corrupt individuals that undermine the group. It only takes a few bad cops working together to harm dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent people.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Yes.
If someone robs me, I'm not calling my bro or the hippies down the street, I'm calling the cops and having a police report made out.

I know and have worked with a lot of the local police, great people.

 

[HomeCheese]

Whenever I have needed the police they have shown up quickly and have been helpful. On the other hand, I have also seen a sort of disregard and dismissive attitude from them. A perfect example, I play basketball in an over 50 league run by the county. There are about a dozen teams and all of the players are over 50, except the two teams made up of cops. These teams have players as young as in the 40's.

Somehow everyone follows the rules except the cops. And quite frankly they are sort of dicks about it all too. Plus they made me chase around some guy 20 years younger than me the whole game. To me this is a really good example about how some cops think the rules don't apply to them

So I have conflicted feels about the police.

 

[Badger67]

From my experience with police no i do not. There are good officers however i do not meet many of them.

 

[chardog]

Well, cops have their helpers........ Judges/Prosecutors. They go hand in hand, so cops are not completely at fault.

 

[Reginald Denny]

Too broad of a question. Not every cop is the same just as every profession.

However, when people think of cops, military, doctors etc, we think of honorable professions where people will do the right thing so naturally we will trust these professions.

 

[Losfer Words]

I dont trust the police instituion, i do trust some of their agents.

 

[brody_in_ga]

I do, but I'm a college educated, middle-class white male. The Criminal Justice system I face is different than what some in our population face. On the rare occasion I have a run-in with Johnny Law, exclusively for traffic violations, I'm not treated as a suspected criminal.

I guess that's a two-sided answer of "yes and no".

GTFOH with that nonsense... If blacks would take some responsibility for themselves and their neighborhoods, they would fare a whole lot better with the law system.

 

[BForrester]

GTFOH with that nonsense... If blacks would take some responsibility for themselves and their neighborhoods, they would fare a whole lot better with the law system.

GTFOH with that racist nonsense. I didn't say anything about blacks because they aren't the only minority group that receives less-than-stellar treatment from law enforcement. Interesting that's immediately where you went.

What you're advocating is analogous to me treating every white person from the southeastern U.S. as an uneducated, racist redneck because that's the generalization about people from that region.

 

[tonni]

Yes. I also trust my mechanic, politicans and door to door salesmen.