Isaac Bailey CNN: Why we always find excuses for cops who kill

[TacoD]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/opinions/black-lives-police-lives-bailey/index.html

Can't copy and paste excerpt right now, but well worth the read.

[Igel]

1. We don't.

Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't, but most often we find enough wiggle room to not be able to secure a conviction (or establish even a sound basis for assumptions).

They're less "excuses for cops who kill" and more "occasions for reasonable doubt". But some cops get convicted, some simply aren't charged or found guilty because there's insufficient evidence for guilt, while some are completely exonerated. The difficulty is that in a guilty/not-guilty system, it winds up looking like convicted/excused.

If it was a system based on "guilty until proven innocent," the numbers would be flipped.


In any event, "always" is not the right word.

[Jerry442]

2. No rational person wants to be...

...in a line of work where people aren't held accountable. If no one is ever held accountable, the sociopaths, con artists, bullies and thugs are the ones that rise to the top and prosper.