Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers

Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by giantg2 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:35PM (#26032790)

I don't believe there's any room for misconduct or gross incompetence. It's one thing to not be able to fix every wrong, it's another when the system itself creates those wrongs.

If you have a trooper lying to a judge or continuing to hold a charge against you they know is false, they should be fired.

If a magistrate doesn't know the basics of the law (like due process and dismissing with prejudice), then how can they be qualified to rule on it?

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Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by drcoopster on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:52AM (#26033808)

Some judges are elected; they could easily be grossly unqualified.

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Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by giantg2 on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:13AM (#26035466)

Not only are magistrates elected in my state, but they aren't required to have a law degree nor pass the bar. They take a short training course and test. In this case the original magistrate was arrested for gambling with campaign money, perjury, etc. The second magistrate was a retired cop and former police chief. Needless to say he was hostile to the defense the entire time while not questioning anything the trooper said, even stuff that was blatantly false.

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