The idea is right but simply cut the cop who is convicted. With the lottery good cops may become more vigilent, but bad cops will become more brutal knowing that they only have a 0.1% chance of losing their jobs for their actions.
Robert Schmid Central
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 12:27 AM, David Shove wrote:
Q: How do we bring give the police force reason to obey the law and not beat the daylights out of minorites, poor, mentally disturbed etc citizens?
A: Every time there is a proven brutality, one position will be cut from
the police force. If it is set at say 900, it gets cut to 899. Then ALL of
the officers are given a number from 001 to 900, and 3 "power ball" single
digit balls are drawn, preferably on TV with lots of fanfare. The number,
and then the associated name, of the officer is displayed, and he/she is
thereby FIRED and may not be replaced.
How long do you think it would take before ALL the cops were enforcing the
most decorous polite behavior on ALL other cops?
If brutality anywhere could mean the loss of his/her job, how long until
Mpls had the best police force on earth?
--David Shove Roseville
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Steve Brandt wrote:
Steve Brandt: I believe that people are referring to this incident, encapsulated in this morning's paper:
In 1997, Storlie shot and wounded Lawrence Miles Jr., who was 15 at the
time, in south Minneapolis after Miles ran past him with a BB gun.
Storlie shot Miles, believing the teenager was pointing a gun at his
partner. Miles and a friend were playing BB-gun tag in the 3600 block of
Chicago Av. at 1:30 a.m. when that shooting happened.
Storlie was exonerated by the Police Department and the Hennepin County
Attorney's Office. Last year, a federal jury found no police brutality
in that case and declined to award money to Miles.
Steve Brandt Star Tribune
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