![]() He applauds the department community service he sees pictorially celebrated on Facebook right now. Gadfly implies nothing bad about the department. Unless the current trial reminds the powers that be of the kinds of things that we should be doing in the wake of the GeorgeFloyd event. But we aren’t going to get a chance to ask. We just need to be secure that we aren’t incubating an officer Chauvin or the other officers cited in the above “Bad Cops” article. Gadfly remembers Chief DiLuzio responding to a question about discipline by affirming that the department has fired and does fire officers.Īffirming that a good system is in place.īut surely - without in any way suggesting that there is some cancer in the department - we could use more detail than that. There are many accounts of officers with questionable records, with a series of troublesome incidents, that take forever to be investigated, that are most often met with slight or no discipline, that often involve police unions, and which are kept secret till there is a major blow-up.Īmong reforms often suggested is an “early warning” system. The thing he found himself most thinking about was Chauvin’s disciplinary record - 18 complaints in 19 years of service.Īnd reminded Gadfly that one of the things on his “ask” list for a real Public Safety meeting had to do with our police department disciplinary record and process.īethlehem is not Minneapolis, and Minneapolis is not the national norm for bad handling of police misconduct cases, but this article, though long, is thought-provoking and not an outlier in cases Gadfly has read about and reviewed in these pages over the past year (thanks to follower MD for calling this article to his attention): “The Bad Cops: How Minneapolis protects its worst police officers until it’s too late.” Gadfly assumes that since we have that dual accreditation, our police training is good.īut, as he suggested the other day, we don’t know much about that training. ![]() It gets police officers acquitted from questionable behavior. That’s standard script in many of the “bad cop” cases Gadfly has read about over the past year, some of which he has reviewed here. Hearing that Chauvin “did exactly what he had been trained to do” got his attention. So what were his takeaways from yesterday? This has certainly been the year for such binge watching, what with impeachments and all. He’s been hooked on this valuable voyeurism since the Army/McCarthy hearings in his teens. Gadfly wishes you all had his “leisure” to sit in front of that window into the body of our legal system. Gadfly singing his solo public safety song again. Latest in a series of posts in the wake of the George Floyd murder
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