“No, when an officer commits a crime that is *far* more grievous that when a civilian commits a crime. The penalties should be far higher. And his buddies who tried to cover it up should pay, too.”
Austin – A crime is a crime and no one should pay any more or less than anyone else. Its called equal protection before the law.
Errr, yes and no. We rightly tend to shade the law and penalties in many areas – juvies get less consequence, a male teacher who molests young 7-year old boys gets more heat than a female who sleeps with a 16 year old boy. In some cases, cops and prosecutors get lieniency a member of the public would not for certain actions. In other areas, because they are acting under the color of law and actually have the power to control others lifes via legitimate physical and legal powers, make them obey, and have higher credibility as witnesses and officers of the court – they justly face higher consequences. But even then, the good old boys network intervenes most times and prevents the dirty cops and crooked prosecutors from doing any real jailtime (See Mike Nifong and his 3 stooge cops from the Duke Rape Case).
The BART case is not so clear. This wasn’t an instance of a robber or passerby seeing a man lying on the ground and deciding to shoot ‘em in the back just for the heck of it, which would clearly be murder. This is a cop in the course of his duties, a person who most would agree had no history of criminality, trying to subdue a suspect and in the heat of struggle, either made a humongous mistake or lost control of himself and his anger or acted with criminal negligence.
The legal system, hopefully, will carefully examine this incident and even perhaps reach a just sentence.
Jack Dunphy properly questions why black and Lefty activists have such selective outrage. Meaning they are silent on black thug on black thug butchery, even black thug on innocent black, Asian, white, hispanic people butchery – but when a black thug or black bystander is killed by any but a black thug – howls of shock and political outrage ring through the City.
Going past Dunphy and touching on “The Color of Crime” theme black leaders and Jewish liberal lawyers and Lefty activists want blocked from public discussion at all costs – The ugly truth is young black males, age 13 to 40, 3% of America’s population, commit half the murders, half the rapes, and almost 60% of armed robberies. (They also account for a majority of cop-killings)
And any black or white with a lick of common sense could then screen that 3% population and with about 96% confidence exclude 2 out of 3 young black males as good, productive, “safe” citizens highly unlikely to commit violent felonies..
The great problem is not untrained or poor-performing cops. It is how to stop the young black male thug crime wave..and as a side issue, how to stop cops from overeacting on the thugs and also to prevent harm to non-thug young male blacks mistaken for dangerous, threatening (to society and cop’s personal safety) criminal blacks. All too many incidents are of cops that could screen a young black as a threat or non-threat in a few minutes – not being able to do so in a street situation or traffic stop with any high degree of confidence – who then treat all young blacks as dangerous thugs.
If young red-haired white males, 3% of the white population, did half the major violent crime, we would have a degree of “carrot-top” racism, and accusations against cops of being guilty of standing around or driving while being red-headed.
