There are no incentives in place to encourage accurate reporting of force deployment by law enforcement agencies. Tracking use of force means agencies are basically generating evidence for civil ri…
It’s fucking crazy that I can Google my doctor and find a dozen sites with information about their history, their practice, any news about them. Sites that that create bios and a laundry list of data.
I can do the same with lawyers and university professors.
But the only reports about police officers comes from the news? And often it’s obscured or hidden?
Crazy indeed. There should be a federal agency issuing law enforcement licenses, with reasonable standards akin to the certification of doctors and lawyers and barbers and beauticians. And when someone’s shown that they stink as a cop, they lose the license and never wear a badge again.
It’s amazing how that never happens, and police work — which ought to be the most regulated occupation in America, is policed only by the police, very secretively, as you say.
It’s fucking crazy that I can Google my doctor and find a dozen sites with information about their history, their practice, any news about them. Sites that that create bios and a laundry list of data.
I can do the same with lawyers and university professors.
But the only reports about police officers comes from the news? And often it’s obscured or hidden?
Crazy indeed. There should be a federal agency issuing law enforcement licenses, with reasonable standards akin to the certification of doctors and lawyers and barbers and beauticians. And when someone’s shown that they stink as a cop, they lose the license and never wear a badge again.
It’s amazing how that never happens, and police work — which ought to be the most regulated occupation in America, is policed only by the police, very secretively, as you say.
99.9% of bad cops get away with it.