In general, Cam, I'd agree with you but I take a different view when it comes to government employees and, in particular, police officers. Police officers have a great deal of power and they have a lot of institutional backing that does everything in its power to shield them from any repercussions related to their on duty (and often off duty) behavior.
Now, a lot of that institutional backing is warranted. Police officers have a very hard job to do and they are placed in a lot of no-win situations. None the less, that institutional backing is also often used as cover up for legitimately bad behavior and keeping officers who ought not to be in positions of power on the force. So cities may have very strong independent review panels that will ferret out this sort of behavior but in most cases the only recourse that the citizenry really has is law suits. Law suits get the attention of higher ups and that is the only way things will change. So yes, in general, I agree with you that we have an overly litigious society. Suing cops that overstep their bounds is an exception though until we get genuinely responsive independent review panels with real power. Cheers, Judah On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Eric Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I would disagree...that isn't even close to the definition of battery or >> even assault. Interfering with an arrest may be illegal, but the fact of >> the matter is, this cop committed battery against this woman by slapping >> her >> and her reaction would not give her a conviction though it may give the cop >> one. > > > Sometimes I think people need to stop worrying so much about taking each > other to court over stuff. Slapping someone? Really? Civil? No. > But come on people just GET OVER IT and move on. Spending the time required > to take someone to court for slapping you is just plain ole waste of time. > You could be doing so many other things with that time. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337272 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
