Cops who commit perjury need to be charged and convicted of it. Just sacking them moves the problem on to the next force they work for as we have seen time and again.
You can at least sack an incompetent city employee, an elected one needs to be impeached. The damage done to Justice by the cycle of fundraising and seen-to-be-done court theater is monstrous. Stop the popularity contests for important technical positions and start using skills assessments and continuous review.
Good points. But most judges get elected with very little fundraising or court theater - at least, in the cities where I have lived. They are usually uncontested slates pre-approved by the party in power. The assistant DAs who do most of the actual litigating and prosecuting are hires, not elected posts. I think it's possible to impose skills assessments and the very excellent idea of annual external review without replacing elections with appointments, which merely solidify the cronyism.
To be hired as an officer with the NYPD, candidates must be US citizens and at least 21 years of age, hold a high school diploma plus at least 60 college credits with a minimum 2.0 GPA, have a valid New York driver's license, and reside within the five boroughs of New York City or surrounding counties. The surrounding counties keep getting farther and farther away. Where I live, some 45 miles NW of Times Square and on the other side of the river, we're infested with NYC cops.
Harshness of punishments and pursuit of prosecutions is provably worse leading up to re-elections.Electing these officials provably undermines justice being done and arguably does nothing to reduce the croneyism. You say many positions are unopposed and approved by the local party, that is exactly croneyism.It is a quaint notion that electing people will reduce corruption. It is an outrageous argument to make after 4 years of Trump.
The FOP-sponsored billboards in Northeast are going to be epic, I can assure you. McNesby is a fucking menace, and Krasner annoys him in all the right ways.
You make good points, and I'm too lazy to go digging for the counter arguments, although I have heard some persuasive ones from good government organizations.
I do think it's a pretty big jump to equate Trump's monumental and open corruption with what happens with elected judges and DAs around election time. For one thing, voters really don't look at those stats. For another, the reasons why harsher and more aggressive prosecutions happen are multiple - including the fact that a great many judges are former prosecutors, with an ingrained bias against the accused.
And lastly, appointed cronies are exactly the Trump model, which doesn't persuade me that appointing prosecutors is a good alternative.
Given how law is in America, they probably took one look at Outlaw's name and face and immediately decided he was guilty. Especially since they had a Paladino on the case, those guys are always trying to burn heretics at the stake regardless of evidence.
Cops who commit perjury need to be charged and convicted of it. Just sacking them moves the problem on to the next force they work for as we have seen time and again.
You can at least sack an incompetent city employee, an elected one needs to be impeached. The damage done to Justice by the cycle of fundraising and seen-to-be-done court theater is monstrous. Stop the popularity contests for important technical positions and start using skills assessments and continuous review.
Good points. But most judges get elected with very little fundraising or court theater - at least, in the cities where I have lived. They are usually uncontested slates pre-approved by the party in power. The assistant DAs who do most of the actual litigating and prosecuting are hires, not elected posts. I think it's possible to impose skills assessments and the very excellent idea of annual external review without replacing elections with appointments, which merely solidify the cronyism.
I think it was Scalia and/or Thomas.
To be hired as an officer with the NYPD, candidates must be US citizens and at least 21 years of age, hold a high school diploma plus at least 60 college credits with a minimum 2.0 GPA, have a valid New York driver's license, and reside within the five boroughs of New York City or surrounding counties. The surrounding counties keep getting farther and farther away. Where I live, some 45 miles NW of Times Square and on the other side of the river, we're infested with NYC cops.
Harshness of punishments and pursuit of prosecutions is provably worse leading up to re-elections.Electing these officials provably undermines justice being done and arguably does nothing to reduce the croneyism. You say many positions are unopposed and approved by the local party, that is exactly croneyism.It is a quaint notion that electing people will reduce corruption. It is an outrageous argument to make after 4 years of Trump.
Oh pshaw! You had to go there!
The FOP-sponsored billboards in Northeast are going to be epic, I can assure you. McNesby is a fucking menace, and Krasner annoys him in all the right ways.
You make good points, and I'm too lazy to go digging for the counter arguments, although I have heard some persuasive ones from good government organizations.
I do think it's a pretty big jump to equate Trump's monumental and open corruption with what happens with elected judges and DAs around election time. For one thing, voters really don't look at those stats. For another, the reasons why harsher and more aggressive prosecutions happen are multiple - including the fact that a great many judges are former prosecutors, with an ingrained bias against the accused.
And lastly, appointed cronies are exactly the Trump model, which doesn't persuade me that appointing prosecutors is a good alternative.
they have a vested stake in not being caught for committing all the crimes
Outlaw is a not-uncommon surname in Eastern North Carolina.
Well, you can't really blame the Philly cops. After all, the guy's name is Outlaw.
Given how law is in America, they probably took one look at Outlaw's name and face and immediately decided he was guilty. Especially since they had a Paladino on the case, those guys are always trying to burn heretics at the stake regardless of evidence.
Whereas someone nicknamed "Shank" just has to be a fine, upstanding citizen.
I wonder what the police were named.
In the old version of the department I don't think that having a soul was a job requirement.
As for training in the law, they seem to have enough to pervert the law.
I think they should just get lots and lots of settlement money to apply to the time they now to get to live outside of prison.