At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. “OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,” said an investigator.
Finally, after curling up with the dog on the floor, Perez broke down and confessed. He said he had stabbed his father multiple times with a pair of scissors during an altercation in which his father hit Perez over the head with a beer bottle.
Perez’s father wasn’t dead — or even missing. Thomas Sr. was at Los Angeles International Airport waiting for a flight to see his daughter in Northern California. But police didn’t immediately tell Perez.
Watch “Power” on Netflix and one get the gist. Society needs the police, but there are plenty of sick sadistic mofos in their ranks.
So why the fuck aren’t they held to a higher standard than the rest of us?
This is what I don’t get. I’m a nurse, and since I (ostensibly) have people’s lives in my hand, we are checked and double-checked, have to do continual education, and literally everything we do needs to be documented and audited.
And our goal is always to prevent harm to the patient. Why do people who can legally end someone’s life not have the same, or much more strict, standards (I’m asking this rhetorically, I don’t really want an answer).
It seems like adapting medical licensing and reporting requirements would help get us on the right track, or at the very least help hold police accountable.
Same here. I’m in a position where I’m liable for over a thousand people if any become hurt or die due to my negligence. If I fuck up badly, I could do serious jail time and never work in my industry again. Plus I had to attend university for eight years.
People can waltz in with no education, complete a training course of just a few months, and become police officers, able to kill or harm others with significant impunity.
Says who?
It’s funny - I live in a neighborhood where I routinely need to call the police. They don’t show up.
Have you tried donating a few hundred thousand dollars to your local police union?
If you need to call the police and they don’t show up, but somehow you made it out of that situation, it sounds like you didn’t need the police.
Yeah - I’m not sure if the homeless woman thats being abused by my drug dealer neighbor who’s screams wake me up at 3 am is going to make it out though :)
worst take I’ve read all month
Hilarious that the parent comment https://lemmy.world/comment/10245666 was overwhelmingly supported and offers essentially the same message.
that is my experience with both lemmy and reddit. it’s a coin toss as to whether the same message is supported positively or not each time you bring it up.
Society may need law enforcement, but not what we have today.