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jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

Georgia police dog dies after being left in hot car; deputy fired

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Georgia police dog dies after being left in hot car; deputy fired

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jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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A sheriff's deputy has been fired after leaving a police dog in a hot car, which ultimately led to the canine's death, officials said.
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    Don’t police dogs have a rank? I seem to remember that makes it “harming a police officer” or “killing a police officer” when a civilian fights back against the K9. If a cop kills another cop, he just gets fired and strolls down to the next precinct to his next cop job?

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      Pretty much.

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      Wait till you hear what they do to people that report on their corrupt/abusive fellow cops…

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        https://media.tenor.com/sFGB4cW82U8AAAAM/jail-right-to-jail.gif

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      That’s what happens when they kill anyone else. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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    Just fired? I was under the impression that canine officers were considered officers and killing them was considered a crime.

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      FTA:

      “The district attorney’s office will determine if prosecution is warranted.”

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        I bet infinity billion dollars that I know which way they’ll go on this.

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          Depends on the caste of both the prosecutor and the officer.

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          ….no evidence of wrongdoing

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        Give it 5 months and he will be rehired 3 counties over.

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          That long? ;)

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    They just can’t stop killing dogs

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    KFC logo but the letters are JFC instead, an acronym for Jesus Effing Christ and the image isn't Colonel Saunders it's Jesus Christ the original recipe 9000 herbs and spices king of the universe himself.

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    So there is a way that cops face consequences. Maybe if people wear dog suits, we’d do OK

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      They treat dogs as target practice. I don’t think that’ll get the desired result. You have to become a cop and then put on the dog suit.

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        So many hoops to jump through!

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          Stop! It’s the furry police!

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      Bad idea with ICE Barbie around

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    Wasn’t even an asshole dog, it was a bloodhound which is about as innocent as you get!

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    I feel like I’ve definitely read stories about some one hitting a police dog and being charged as if they hit an officer…kinda shocked this just gets a firing. I

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    When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

    When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

    When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

    Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

    The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

    All this is a path to a police state.

    In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

    Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

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