(FB comment by Rick Slader)
Several people have made the point that even though we’re seeing a Trial
in which the State is prosecuting a sworn police officer it’s more
likely Derek Chauvin will be found not guilty, although it’s my
political opinion that the institutions of this country from corporate
capitalists to police chiefs to politicians want him convicted. In fact,
the system needs Chauvin found guilty to rebalance the falsity that the
US is a just society, as opposed to just us getting it again society. To
appreciate how exceedingly rare this Trial is, in fact how rare any
trial of sworn police officers is in the US let’s look at the numbers.
There’s 800,000 local sworn Police Officers. This does not include State
Police or any Federal Law Enforcement Officer nor private police and
those employed in the Security industry. From 2005 through 2011,
according to the Washington Post, 6,742 police were arrested for
criminal behavior, with the overwhelming majority of these being men.
Their crimes ranged from simple assault to corruption with a significant
number of these being sexual assault against women. This is a 7 year
period in which approximately 1,100 police are arrested yearly. The hard
numbers for police arrested for Aggravated Assault, Aggravated Battery,
Felony Assault, Use of a Deadly Weapon, Involuntary Manslaughter,
Manslaughter, 3rd, 2nd and 1st Degree Murder are staggeringly minuscule.
Between 2005 to 2020, nationally the number of police (out of 800,000
police) who were arrested and convicted for manslaughter were 11. For
Involuntary Manslaughter 6.
For Voluntary Manslaughter 5. Federal Criminal Deprivation of Civil
Rights 5. Negligent Homicide 3. Reckless Homicide 2. Reckless Discharge
of a Firearm and Aggravated Assault 1 for each and 5 for all types of
Murder. This last number represents the total number of Police whose
convictions weren’t overturned by Courts on Appeal.
What these numbers really show is how the State and all its
institutional arms protect Police. In fact, Actions of Police are
indemnified that fully negate the almost every Right of citizens
(mediated only by one’s Class) that were a Soldier on any battlefield
during a War were to commit similar acts they would be deemed a War
Crime or deemed a Crime Against Humanity or both. This is why huge
numbers of people expect Chauvin or cops similar to Chauvin to either
never be arrested, prosecuted, found guilty and if found guilty by a
Jury to not have their adverse Decision overturned on Appeal.
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