Officer charged in vehicular manslaughter
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From: FAR BEYOND THE WHEEL...
Originally Posted by vader1,Dec 4 2009, 10:41 AM
My wife works with a woman that has a mentally disabled son because of a brain injury. He was a teenage kid out walking around drunk one night and was hit by a county sheriff. All this is known an proven. The sheriff did not stop but drove home (who know's he may have been drunk himself) and left the kid injured on the side of the road. The boy will need to be looked after the erest of his life.
The sheriff is being sued, but of course, no charges will every be filed against him, even though he hit someone with his car, injured them, and with full knowledge, drove away.
Prosecutors and the police are on the same "team". I think every state should have an independant prosecutors office (sort of like an internal affairs office) where people can bring cases to for possible prosecution when police are being let off the hook and do not face the same set of laws the rest of the people do.
The sheriff is being sued, but of course, no charges will every be filed against him, even though he hit someone with his car, injured them, and with full knowledge, drove away.
Prosecutors and the police are on the same "team". I think every state should have an independant prosecutors office (sort of like an internal affairs office) where people can bring cases to for possible prosecution when police are being let off the hook and do not face the same set of laws the rest of the people do.
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Originally Posted by Deception,Dec 4 2009, 01:52 PM
LOL at the police crimes forum.. I think Im gonna join that one
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Was otw to class the other day and was passed by a Highway Patrol going about 90 on the freeway, was at about noon too.. good amount of traffic, there was a dumbass going 5 under in the left lane holding up the traffic and the cop actually squeezed inbetween 2 cars to get over to the far right lane (3 lane road) no blinker or anything, just got over, got into the right lane, and took off again. I dont see this very often.
One thing I do see often though, is cops, blacked out on the side of freeways, gunning people coming down the road. They arnt allowed to do this without their headlights on, because if someone has a problem, and has to pull over to the side of the road, they cant see the cop sitting there. Im just waiting to get pulled over by one of these guys so I can embarass him in court.
One thing I do see often though, is cops, blacked out on the side of freeways, gunning people coming down the road. They arnt allowed to do this without their headlights on, because if someone has a problem, and has to pull over to the side of the road, they cant see the cop sitting there. Im just waiting to get pulled over by one of these guys so I can embarass him in court.
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Originally Posted by C U AT 9K,Dec 4 2009, 10:52 AM
I bet its because they have this incident on tape and the police department has to deal with all of the backlash. Those two girls in NJ were killed in an instant and nobody even heard about it until the cop got off.
