"Shirl" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" :
This was in Chandler, where one cop (Lovelace) managed
to get one innocent bystander killed during a high speed
pursuit, then killed a lady for an illegal prescription.

Chandler PD is both corrupt and grossly inept (according to
my BIL who lives net door in Gilbert/Power Ranch (whose PD
is even worse).- Hide quoted text

Jay Beckman wrote:
So you don't live in Chandler, AZ and neither, in fact, does your
BIL yet you both are qualified to make this judgement, how?

Does being a resident of a city qualify someone to make those kinds of
accusations? I'd like to know what police dept *doesn't* have incidents
where things turned out badly and could have been handled more
efficiently. And how many incidents are handled well, solved, and have a
positive outcome that don't make the nightly news and are taken for
granted by residents? Always amazes me how an entire operation can be
labeled as "corrupt and grossly inept" by a couple of splashy nightly
news clips of unfortunate incidents.

Even police will have a few successes :~)

Look at their record, though, over the long term. Look, too, at their upper
divisions and the city administration as well.

Just as the public schools intent is not to educate (in the classical use of
the word), neither is the purpose of the police, any more, to keep the
peace. (Notice how in the 1970's an onward, police stopped referring to
themselves as "Peace Officers" and started calling themselves "Law
Enforcement". That requires a pretty big stretch of logic to infer that the
laws are for protecting the public rather than some other group.