It’s not provable, but I’d argue that it takes social-media-driven public outrage to secure convictions, as was the case for former Minnesota officer Kimberly Potter, who was convicted of manslaughter for “accidentally” using her gun instead of her Taser to kill Daunte Wright, a Black man, in 2021.
When cops do make mistakes, they’re shielded by so many levels of legal protection that only a small percentage of them get charged for the same behavior that would have the rest of us locked up. Combined with the fact that we all now have high-definition video recorders in our pockets, officers have some real-world accountability for the first time in the history of policing - we can only imagine the shit they were getting away with when there was nothing to record them.Ĭops are expected to pass a psychological exam before hitting the streets in most districts, but that process could be useful or nonexistent depending on the department, and even the most balanced officer can bring baggage to the office on a bad day, resulting in consequences far more tragic than, say, dropping an order of fries on the floor by accident. Though they’re not yet universally implemented across the country, police body cameras can be an effective check and balance on police officers.
CAM NEWTON JERSEY AT WALMART TRIAL
And enough officers make the news for being on trial for questionable shootings and general brutality that it’s reasonable to suggest we’re not dealing with just a “few bad apples.” But, like cardiac surgeons, people who carry guns for a living can’t afford “off nights,” because then people die. law enforcement officers killed at least 1,200 people, the deadliest year on record since the nonprofit research group Mapping Police Violence started recording police violence in 2013.ĭetermining unnecessary police killings is, by nature, a rather complex notion, which is why so many cases ferment in litigation interminably. Police shootings nationwide have ramped up significantly in recent years, which seems to coincide with the wild rise in homicides during the early COVID-19 pandemic.
Last week, arbitrators determined that two former Oklahoma police officers, Nathan Ronan and Robert Hinkle, can go back to work after shooting Quadry Sanders, an unarmed Black man, a dozen times and killing him in 2021. Prosecutors will attempt to prove that Griffin was speeding away from Crespo in a vehicle when he fired shots.
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Suspended Newark, New Jersey, police officer Jovanny Crespo recently made opening statements at his trial, where he’s facing charges of aggravated manslaughter and assault for fatally shooting driver Gregory Griffin and injuring passenger Andrew Dixon in 2019. Greg Capers, a sergeant for the Indianola, Mississippi, police department, was suspended without pay for shooting and wounding Aderrien Murry, an 11-year-old unarmed Black boy, on May 20 when Capers responded to a 911 call that the child made himself. If police are ever reliable for one thing that’s not in their job description, it’s to make the news for dubious shootings and excessive force. This image from police body camera footage shows officers approaching Quadry Sanders after they shot him on Dec.
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