Legit though, the home stop could be dereliction of duty, but shopping?
That’s actually encouraged in some places, so long as the cop stays in radio contact. It puts officers in contact with people while in uniform, in as close to a zero threat situation as they can be while running around in uniform. Makes businesses feel safe, supposedly deters theft and robbery even when they’re not there because you don’t know when they’ll be back.
Is san Antonio not one of the places that encourages “community” policing?
Edit: Ignore most of that. I went back to the article because it genuinely confused me. The page had frozen on me the first time, so I didn’t see the rest of it.
It wasn’t just shopping that was the problem. It was when he was doing it, and the fact that he cut off his body cam. Dude was ignoring calls he’d been sent on to do the shit, and saying that he went on the calls, but didn’t need to do anything (and the kind of calls would have needed action that would need reports).
Back to the shopping thing… I can see the PR value of a uniformed cop buying groceries, but what’s the cop supposed to do with what they’ve bought if they can’t go home right away and put them into the freezer?
Just strap them to the body of the next person they shoot and pick them up from the morgue later.
I would say either restrict it to small things, or allow a drop off (the cop in question was spending much more time than it would take to drop off groceries, even putting stuff away)
He should have killed someone while he was out. Then he would have gotten paid leave.
You sound too smart to be a cop.
Guilty as charged. Or am I?
Wow without pay. Holy shit he must have pissed someone off.
Should’ve murdered someone while he was at the store, obviously.
I’d love it if all the cops in my town did this shit. Cops not doing their jobs would be a boon for everyone.
