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Originally Posted by OptionZero
I never said there was. I only said there was an explanation.
As for lack of accountability . . did you guys even watch the whole vid? Two week suspension w/o pay, presumably that goes on his record that will make future punishments exponentially worse, he's been publicly called out, his boss fully admitted that the dude fucked up; the city will no doubt be paying the family a substantial sum of money in the settlement.
What more do you want, a cut of the money?
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What the officer did was unforgivable, especially given the importance of his responsibility.
We're dealing with 'life & death' situations here, not crappy tech support.
I do think the officer should have been fired at the VERY LEAST.
Personally, I don't think criminal charges should be out of the question either.
The officer should be charged with reckless endangerment.
"Reckless endangerment: A person commits the crime of reckless endangerment if the person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person. “Reckless” conduct is conduct that exhibits a culpable disregard of foreseeable consequences to others from the act or omission involved. The accused need not intentionally cause a resulting harm or know that his conduct is substantially certain to cause that result. The ultimate question is whether, under all the circumstances, the accused’s conduct was of that heedless nature that made it actually or imminently dangerous to the rights or safety of others."
you could also looking at accountability with regards to the said's PD's mismanagement.
Now if the PD laid all blame to the cop, claimed said cop was NOT following existing procedure, fired the cop & laid all blame on the officer, that would have probably been fine for the PD.
At least the PD is covering their own ass semi competently.
By admitting they did wrong, and then give the cop 2 weeks suspension without pay, it's pretty much like saying yeah they screwed up & they're really not doing much about it.
Worst of all, the PD isn't taking any measures to prevent similar incidences from occurring again.
With regards to a civil lawsuit, assuming there is an actual settlement, who pays for that?
What I would like to see is:
Have both the officer and police chief fired.
Have a criminal & civil charges directed at officer,
Have civil charges against the PD.
Have the PD come with a clear reinforced procedure to take 911 calls, revealed to the public.
Establish clear cut consequences for deviation from the policies, also revealed to the public.