Quote Originally Posted by Xywalan View Post
I cannot think of *any* profession were gross incompetence and unhuman conduct gets defended (and often very vehemently) other than the police work. If you change the roles, can you imagine anyone defending a truck driver who runs over a bunch of people because his GPS tells him to turn left?
Can you imagine anyone saying that "well but the GPS told him to turn!" but we constantly hear "The dispatcher did not inform the cop about the toy gun."
Can you imagine anyone defending the truck driver by saying "There's always some risk in being on the street, those people should have been more careful," but we constantly hear people find little things to blame everytime someone gets shot needlessly by the police.

If a truck driver runs over a kid because he thinks it's a little squirrel and then does nothing to help the dying kid because it's not in his job description, do you think anyone will defend him by saying "But driving a truck is so hard and a very monotonous job and anyone can mistake anything for anything," or that "it is not the truck driver's job to save people."

In any of the above situations, at the very very bare minimum the guy involved will be immediately fired and no sane trucking company will launch an investigation that ends with the conclusion that "The truck driver did not do anything wrong and followed the procedure," but police departments constantly reach the exact same fucking conclusion when one of their own displays unhuman gross incompetence that results in the death of innocent people.


So, everytime you hear anyone use their stupid flawed logic to defend gross incompetence by the police, just substitute a truck driver and see if the logic makes any sense at all.
Wow. Well said.