Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop
by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:29AM
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>This has nothing to do with government bureaucracy, and everything to do with malicious, criminal cops. Don't confuse one for the other.
This has everything to do with government (or otherwise, bigCo is not immune to this) bureaucracy.
Diffusion of responsibility, conflicting process, etc. etc. are how this kind of behavior can persist. These cops can do this crap and remain employed because the pile of bureaucratic process that distills everything down to (mostly) objectively evaluate metrics and therefore "doing your job while being a dick" doesn't negatively affect them.
It isn't just police that have this problem. Every regulatory enforcement agency has this problem to various extents.
This has nothing to do with government bureaucracy, and everything to do with malicious, criminal cops. Don't confuse one for the other.
They suffer no consequences for harassing and abusing people. Frequently they even get away with murder. The cities and their unions protect them, because they know that at the core the police are a criminal enforcer organization. The law protects the rights of the poor and innocent in the USA, but the police are tasked by landowners with a lot more than simply enforcing the law: they want them to enforce the social order, too, which is a much more, err, "informal" process, such as we see here.
This results in a culture of lawlessness in the police, as they carry out the wishes of those who write the checks and suffer no consequences for breaking the law which they exist ostensibly (but not in practice) to uphold.
I've written about this before: https://sneak.berlin/20200628/the-problem-with-police-in-ame...