Fucking Cops

[Minimalist]

Here are the "requirements" to be a West Virginia State Trooper

Step 1: Meet all minimum qualifications for employment

Before applying for West Virginia State Trooper jobs it is important to first review the Department’s minimum requirements for employment. All State Troopers in West Virginia must:

Between 21 and 40 years old
High school diploma or GED
Valid driver’s license for no fewer than two years prior to applying for the West Virginia State Trooper job

http://www.lawenforcementedu.net/west-vi...e-trooper/


In case anyone thinks these fuckers are the 'best and the brightest.'

[DramaQueen]

Can't they be educated while being trained

[JesusHChrist]

Can't they be educated while being trained

Education is expensive. Who's going to pay for it? And the subjects themselves, may not be suitable candidates in the first place.

[FatAndFaithless]

Here are the "requirements" to be a West Virginia State Trooper

Step 1: Meet all minimum qualifications for employment

Before applying for West Virginia State Trooper jobs it is important to first review the Department’s minimum requirements for employment. All State Troopers in West Virginia must:

Between 21 and 40 years old
High school diploma or GED
Valid driver’s license for no fewer than two years prior to applying for the West Virginia State Trooper job

http://www.lawenforcementedu.net/west-vi...e-trooper/


In case anyone thinks these fuckers are the 'best and the brightest.'

I would be okay with that IF and only if their training involves an ethics training course and a round of basic law knowledge along with a discussion of recent hotspot events (like Ferguson) and exactly why those were problems. It just seems like this type of training takes a back seat (or is nonexistent) in favor of learning how to use the twelves pockets of their giant utility belt of "fuck up the suspect".

[Minimalist]

A "GED?" No. Sorry. If you are giving someone the power of life and death I want them to be a bit better educated than knowing to spell "cat" with a "c" instead of a "k."

[FatAndFaithless]

A "GED?" No. Sorry. If you are giving someone the power of life and death I want them to be a bit better educated than knowing to spell "cat" with a "c" instead of a "k."

Fair enough. I suppose having just the GED might mean that even if there were the ethics and law courses, they might not/probably wouldn't stick.

[Minimalist]

And here we go again.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/louis...ck-family/

Louisiana deputy fatally shot 14-year-old ‘four or five times in the back’: family

How long will it take for this autopsy to be released?

[Brakeman]

What do you guys think of this shit. Two pregnant women thrown to ground.

NYPD

[Minimalist]

It's hard to make much out of that. Mainly all I can hear is the siren.

[Minimalist]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29365980

$1.5m payout for US woman punched by police at roadside

Footage posted on YouTube in July shows a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer straddling the woman, Marlene Pinnock, and hitting her many times.

The settlement agreed on Wednesday came after nine hours of talks between lawyers in Los Angeles.

A CHP statement said the officer, on leave since the incident, has resigned.

The officer could still face criminal charges.

And pigs may fly, too.

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Today's atrocity.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/25...-black-man

Watch the video.

An S.C. trooper who stopped a man for a seat belt violation outside Columbia and then shot him – apparently without provocation – was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.

Sean Groubert, 31, a lance corporal who was fired from the Highway Patrol after the shooting incident, now faces 20 years in prison if convicted of wrongfully shooting the driver, Levar Jones.

Yeah, sure. Let's see what the grand jury has to say before they "whitewash" this one.

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Because grand juries have a shitty track record when it comes to holding cops accountable for murder.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...-1.1951156

Two Ohio police were justified when they shot and killed a man holding a pellet gun inside a Beavercreek Walmart, a grand jury decided Wednesday in declining to indict the cops.

But the U.S. Justice Department will take a look at the case for possible civil rights violations, the feds announced just hours after the local decision.

But what really tops the cake is this little bit of bullshit.

The special prosecutor, appointed to investigate the case by State Attorney General Mike DeWine, called the shooting a tragedy for Crawford’s family and the officers, who will live their lives knowing “they took the life of someone who didn’t need to die.”

The so-called 'special prosecutor' actually equates the "tragedy" of a man being killed with the effect on the cops. Those two motherfuckers are probably high-fiving each other because they got away with murder.