Derek Chauvin received complaints over double of the average officer

[rayg]

Derek Chauvin Trained New Officers Despite Receiving Complaints At Over Double The Rate Of Average Officers

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin received complaints at over double the rate of the average officer on the force, according to records compiled by Communities United Against Police Brutality.

He was the subject of a total of 18 complaints during his 19-year career with the MPD, only two of which were “closed with discipline” resulting in letters of reprimand filed against Chauvin, according to personnel records released last week by the department.

Doesn't say what they were,. but it sounds like he should have been let go as a problem officer long ago and not put in a training capacity..

https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/10/d...-george-floyd/

[togor]

Ray a deep question here, not a police bash requiring a knee jerk reaction.

Is excessive violence by individual police a bug or a feature of the system?

Hollywood portrays it both ways, frankly, celebrating "the renegade cop who gets results and doesn't play by the rules".

I have to think it's a feature, that someone somewhere has decided there is benefit to having a small fraction of cops cross the line, even at the risk that some officers will go too far and get punished. See this is where I start to think that the system of policing used in some places is also failing the police. Had Derek Chauvin been redirected into a different line of work, many things would be different now. For him personally, for George Floyd, the officers who got injured in the streets, and the rest of us.

[rayg]

[QUOTE=togor;585743]Ray a deep question here, not a police bash requiring a knee jerk reaction.

Is excessive violence by individual police a bug or a feature of the system?

Ray..A very big negative. Causes the loss of public support for the police..

Togor..Hollywood portrays it both ways, frankly, celebrating "the renegade cop who gets results and doesn't play by the rules".

Ray..definitely gives the public the wrong opinion of the police..

Togor..I have to think it's a feature, that someone somewhere has decided there is benefit to having a small fraction of cops cross the line,

Ray..Never, never, a good feature...

Togor.. Had Derek Chauvin been redirected into a different line of work, many things would be different now. For him personally, for George Floyd, the officers who got injured in the streets, and the rest of us.

Ray..Possibly a management failure not to do so under the circumstances of his number of complaints against him, even if not all serious, to keep him off the road./QUOTE]

[togor]

Thank you Ray for the thoughtful response