Furthermore, the nurse is in a profession where people die all the time due to reasons beyond the nurse's control, and surviving relatives are not always rational in who they blame. So nurses will be falsely accused much more often than police.
This was found to be by recklessness, which is beyond negligence but short of malice.
> We use the word "accident", but it's never really an accident.
Acts due to negligence, and even recklessness, really are accidents.
> Furthermore, the nurse is in a profession where people die all the time due to reasons beyond the nurse's control, and surviving relatives are not always rational in who they blame.
Surviving relatives don't make prosecutorial decisions, nor are they triers of fact in criminal cases.
> So nurses will be falsely accused much more often than police.
That...doesn't follow from what you’ve described, even taking everything preceding it as true.
I'm not sure this is true, specifically because the difference between a nonviolent traffic stop and a lethal (to the officer) traffic stop can be a split second.
If my keyboard had a 0.01% chance of lethally shocking me... I'm pretty sure that would alter my typing behavior.
The biggest cause for police death are traffic accidents.
Negligence means "failure to take proper care in doing something", which is often just called an accident.
That is exactly what the nurse did, she failed to take proper care and someone died. The nice thing about the law is that what the relatives feel should not matter at all, that's why we are supposed to have impartial prosecutors that review the facts and determine if charges are warranted.
Bottom line, no matter the profession if you fail to take proper care and someone dies as a result, you should be prosecuted and prevented from getting the opportunity to do it again.
This is not true, because you're equivocating on the word "proper". An accident is failure to take proper care, where proper care means "care that follows the rules". Negligence is failure to take proper care, where "proper" means "can reasonably be expected". They are not the same thing.
If you are responsible for the death of another person due to your own negligence then you should be prosecuted for a crime and be removed from any scenario where you are able to repeat that mistake.