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Originally Posted by Robbie
No. I just think that if a cop shoots somebody they should go to trial for it just like you and I would.
If they are innocent, then let a jury decide it. Not the law enforcement brotherhood "investigating" themselves and....surprise! Finding no wrong doing. 
If that's good enough for you or I (if we did the same thing)...then it should be good enough for cops too. They aren't supposed to be above the law. |
Here's the only problem with that...or at least the major one that I can think of. This is a job where you may be called upon to shoot someone. They give you the gun and train you how and when to use it. You may, on any given day you are on the job, be called upon to do just that. Any good lawyer will tell you that juries are unpredictable. You are putting your fate in the hands of people who likely have never been in your shoes. All you need is a few cop haters on that jury and you can get screwed even if you didn't do anything wrong.
If that is the risk of the job you would have a difficult time finding quality people to do it.
I have no problem at all with setting up tasks forces and training non-police people to investigate shootings to help determine if something potentially illegal went down, but if the reality is that you shoot someone, you end up on trial and may go to jail for life, many cops would quit and do something else and many would-be quality cops would never join and would just go into another line of work.