We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.
If public officers will infringe men's rights, they ought to pay greater damages than other men, to deter and hinder other officers from the like offences.
We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.
It is monstrous that courts should aid or abet the law-breaking police officer.
By allowing illegally obtained evidence to be used in court.
Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.
In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.
Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.
I'm a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they've got to be held accountable.
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.
Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.
When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.