Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings

Re:Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in sho... by jMyles on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:18AM (#9916602)

Can you imagine if your build process worked that way?

"Yeah, the integration tests failed 400 times, but in all but one of them, it was the test runner that was the problem."

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Re:Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in sho... by sp332 on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:38AM (#9916713)

Our product killed 400 people, but we're pretty sure 399 of them deserved it.

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Re:Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in sho... by yebyen on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:44AM (#9916767)

To be fair, that they were shot by an officer does not imply that they were killed. Of course I haven't read the statistics in detail, maybe we're only investigating these cases because they were cases where the person was killed. </cynical outlook>

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Re:Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in sho... by serge2k on Monday July 20, 2015 @02:18PM (#9917929)

Or it could reasonably be

"Yeah, the integration tests failed 400 times, but, in all but one of them, the failure was indicative of an actual problem with the system".

1 out of 400 could easily mean the police use justified force almost all the time.

Of course then they probably wouldn't be firing investigators, but there you go.

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Re:Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in sho... by jMyles on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @12:45AM (#9927778)

I guess it depends on what counts as a "pass." I think that the state mortally wounding someone is always a failure. There are different severity levels, to be sure, but there's a reason that they're all investigated.

Even in the (in my estimation) relatively small fraction that are in fact truly, expressly legally justified, it's a failure on a different layer of the stack.

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