re: #91 Patricia Kayden

And this is why so many people don’t trust the police. Excessive violence against a disabled child isn’t a good look.
Furthermore, deleting body cam footage should be an automatic reason to fire cops. They’re obviously hiding wrongdoing.

The problem is, there’s just enough plausible deniability behind, “Oh, my body cam was on the fritz,” that straight-up firing them will usually get overturned after action by the police union. And for the record, I have no problem with police unions as a concept; the problem I have is that they’ve largely developed into a sort of “ol’ boy’s club,” where the police union will vehemently protect its own, regardless of how corrupt or abusive the officer in question is. I think more realistic and honest assessments of when to let an officer face the music might go a long way toward restoring faith in police and police unions.