Judge: Police Supt. Jody Weis can't fire cop who beat man cuffed to wheelchair

[Pat K]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1054732,frankmain071408.article

Read it and weep.

[Atlas]

"The police board had to balance his stellar law enforcement career against the wrongdoing." Pat, balance is the key, didn't you know?

[DigitalWarrior]

I would suggest that they use the scales of justice to provide the "balance".  One one side I would place the trust given to men with their job, against on the other side, the evidence that the four officers in the frame failed to protect and serve.

Then I would throw the man guilty of assault in the clink and direct the three cops who stood by and watched towards a help-wanted sign.

[doobie]

'Lawenforcement' should be one strike and you are out...  screw up and you are no longer fit to "wear the uniform".  Then we just need to get every one of them to screw up

[Sam A. Robrin]

'Lawenforcement' should be one strike and you are out...  screw up and you are no longer fit to "wear the uniform".  Then we just need to get every one of them to screw up

I've long advocated that every form of malfeasance in public office should be declared an act of treason, and punished accordingly.

"We line 'em up against the wall and POP! goes the weasel . . ."

[mackler]

"What has a big black moustache, smokes a big black cigar, and is a big pain in the ass?"

That's a true classic.

[J’raxis 270145]

They used to know how to deal with corrupt public officials:—

If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgment.

That's from the Codex Hammurabi.