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I know that is mostly the case, but we are seeing again and again that it is not always the case. So are we ok as a people having police with the full force of law beat people and even kill people with a 5% or even a 2% "whoops my bad--stinks to be you?" with no further consequences for mistakes and even outright abuse? That seems to be what we have got right now.

I want to add--I am usally on the police's side. I am just feeling really sickened and shell shocked by obvious negligence and abuse with very little consequences to those who have abused the public's trust. If we don't have some amount of transparency when these abuses occur and consequences for those that have done the acts, the police as a whole will lose more and more legitimacy. People will trust them less and less and that will make us all much less safe.

seamusTX wrote:

TXlaw1 wrote:Thank you so much for this sad update. It confirms my decision from about a year ago that I will NEVER go to Las Vegas and probably never enter Nevada.

You certainly have the right to make that decision. However, there is no big city in Texas—probably nowhere in the U.S.—where this kind of thing couldn't happen. Houston had Pedro Oregón, within my memory. There have also been plenty of cases of police shooting unarmed people who had phones, flashlights, etc., in their hands.

- Jim

This is what scares the daylights out of me. We can't seem to go two days in this nation without another situation surfacing that because of video technology (thank God for that--or the brutality would likely never come to light) that shows an out of control cop, or a cop that kills someone without any need to. A raid on a house that the person has not lived there for 7 years and yet the police go in like they saw him walk in that evening. I understand that most LEO's are decent people, but a bad apple in a LEO uniform can have deadly consequences with little to no repercussions for the guilty whereas a bad apple in an accountants uniform just goes home to an empty house.

I am starting to think we need some accountability for actions that damage people that were unnecessary and where the police provoked the incident. A military style raid on a home that could have been avoided by a simple surveillance of the house--stick a guy in a car outside for two days and figure out that this man does not live there anymore. The beating of the videographer that could have been avoided if the police officer had just moved on--he was doing nothing wrong. The death of a CHL-er that could have been avoided if the police had just been clear on what they wanted the man to do and not been so trigger happy.

I don't know what would work, but I do know that as a law abiding citizen I am trusting the police (as a whole) less and less and viewing their actions with more scrutiny and at minimum a raised eyebrow.