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Re:As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from... by londons_explore on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:47PM (#23384977)
By having a team of people whose only job is to investigate the police, they look bad if they don't uncover issues like this.

I suspect the mistake in the US is that all the people who could punish the police are 'too busy' with other things. Make a dedicated team who has nothing else to do, and suddenly they'll be snooping around like journalists looking for dirt so they can make a conviction and get a promotion.

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Re:As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from... by samatman on Monday June 01, 2020 @09:13PM (#23386106)
Exactly this.

FBI doesn't want to investigate LAPD. They need LAPD, down the line, when there's some case for which they'll need cooperation.

What's needed is a Federal policing agency tasked with investigating and prosecuting police misconduct. That's the whole remit; police misconduct is their alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.

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