Wandering cops shuffle departments, abusing citizens

[SummerMadness]

Wandering cops shuffle departments, abusing citizens

Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his father. He got a job in Independence, Ohio, but it didn't go well. His supervisors allowed him to quit after he suffered a "dangerous lack of composure" during firearms training. The department concluded he would "not be able to cope or make good decisions" under stress. The deputy chief wrote Loehmann "could not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal."

Cleveland Police did not check on Loehmann's history in Independence before hiring him. And Ohio law required a felony before an officer would lose his badge. So it was Loehmann who responded in the fall of 2014 to the Cleveland park where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing with what turned out to be a toy gun. Loehmann shot him dead.

The Cleveland department’s failure to check on Loehmann's background is an example of one of the biggest roadblocks to police accountability - "wandering cops" who lose their jobs in one place only to be rehired and to engage in misconduct in another. The problem of wandering cops continues to haunt police accountability amid piecemeal reforms that fall short of fixing the problem, experts say.

 

[disciple Clint]

Wandering cops shuffle departments, abusing citizens

AND the rest of the story.
One year after the shooting, an Ohio grand jury declined to indict Loehmann and his partner on criminal charges, according to Reuters. The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to bring charges against the officers in December.
The CPD terminated Loehmann in 2017 after an internal investigation revealed he had lied on his job application, Cleveland.com reported. The firing was unrelated to the Rice shooting, officials said. Ohio Police Union Is Fighting To Put Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Back On The Force

 

[Pommer]

AND the rest of the story.
One year after the shooting, an Ohio grand jury declined to indict Loehmann and his partner on criminal charges, according to Reuters. The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to bring charges against the officers in December.
The CPD terminated Loehmann in 2017 after an internal investigation revealed he had lied on his job application, Cleveland.com reported. The firing was unrelated to the Rice shooting, officials said. Ohio Police Union Is Fighting To Put Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Back On The Force

Exactly...how do you not see that this turn-of-events is part of “the problem”?

 

[disciple Clint]

Exactly...how do you not see that this turn-of-events is part of “the problem”?

Well it could be because the facts to not support the narrative that it is accepted practice in law enforcement that bad cops go from one department to another.

 

[SummerMadness]

Bill barring 'wandering cops' from law enforcement in New York gains traction

Legislation that would bar cops who are fired or forced to resign because of misconduct from working in law enforcement in New York is gaining traction in Albany.

Proposed by Sen. Brian Benjamin (D-Harlem), the bill is being picked up by Assemblyman Phil Ramos (D-Suffolk), a former cop who says the measure will do more than just help departments avoid problem officers.

People that support wandering cops are simply anti-police because they are intent on promoting a police culture that hurts community relations, thus making it more dangerous to be a cop. They would rather a bad police officer on the street than to have reform because they probably think that means Black Lives Matter wins and we can't have that!

 

[Pommer]

Bill barring 'wandering cops' from law enforcement in New York gains traction


People that support wandering cops are simply anti-police because they are intent on promoting a police culture that hurts community relations, thus making it more dangerous to be a cop. They would rather a bad police officer on the street than to have reform because they probably think that means Black Lives Matter wins and we can't have that!

Police will either gravitate more into a militia styled philosophy and culture, or (hopefully), get back to being a public-servant frame of mind.

At this juncture, the former is going to be so tempting to the folks coming up the ranks, that unless the leadership in the Nation’s various Law Enforcement Agencies actively clumps down now on behaving like an occupying force, it seems more likely; the latter requires a dedication to a philosophy that seems to be becoming rarer these days.

Maybe we need more people who are smart and dedicated to public-service become police?

Why should we settle for any rube* that’ll “do the job” for $25-95K, (or just call them mercenaries and be done with it)?

*no disrespect to the MANY FINE police who are dedicated to public service and are “good cops”. Just the “not so good ones”.
There’s “bad apples” in any profession, ever wonder why there’s a police union in every state, even the ones with the NO UNIONS on their flags**?
“You need us, we know you need us and these will be the minimum conditions that we’re going to allow our members to endure while we graciously allow your government to pay them what we think is ‘fair!’”
It’s the old “unions are no-good because they protect the lowest common denominator!” argument writ LARGE, but we need them, and they know we need them.
**hyperbole