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And just to do the math, there are approximately 750,000 officers with the authority to arrest in the USA (wikipedia).

He's paying police officers to put in extra hours on his behalf, outside the hours the government is able to pay for, to selectively enforce laws that further his personal interests.

So in reality their officers are probably held to a higher standard and legitimate oversight.

What would it take for you to be persuaded that some police officers are racist?

Reading further, it's actually 50 officers who were killed by firearm in 2014, and it's not clear whether that number includes suicides.

Around 50 per year die due to shootings, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (www.nleomf.org) for 2003-2014.

The only result will be more innocent people getting hurt or killed when officers stop being able to actually do their job.

Thanks, it's encouraging to hear that the contracting officers are now getting better advice from technical folks who understand the small teams approach.

And officers who try to be ethical get punished by the others.

Anyone else wondering why a city with a crime problem has had their police force reduced by 500 officers in the last 3 years?

These are off duty police officers working as an officially sanctioned part of the local government, which is obviously failing to get the job done.

Some police officers' behavior is abhorrent, and these videos will lead to some positive societal/policy change (body cameras, etc.) There's an unfortunate side effect though.

"Defending" in the sense of publicly arguing that the accused officers are innocent is your basic right in a free society.

Torres’s squad, the French Quarter Task Force, which at all hours had three armed officers zigzagging the neighborhood in matte black Polaris Rangers that resemble militarized golf carts." "Torres also became involved in setting policy.

I still carry and at each stop I see being made I prepare to come to the officers aid if needed." This retired cop has somehow reached the conclusion that it is a much more dangerous world today than it was 20 years ago, despite crime rates being at an all-time low.

I'm not worried about being shot, I'm worried about the old saying "You can beat the wrap, but you can't beat the ride." I've heard police officers complain about this very natural reaction, and the effects it has on their personal relationships (they generally only have other cops for friends).

The other missing piece to a hardened environment is buy-in from the three primary stakeholders that hold up the fort: Sysadmins, Developers, and Security Officers.