Convicted transit policeman set free

1, I have seen police in action as well and often, when young people and minorities are involved, for some reason, these 'trained professionals' act as if they've never had any type of training.

Nearly all deaths of persons not police, when shot BY police, mostly likely can and will be called justifiable homicide because the only burden of responsibility for any death caused by police is the unknown thoughts housed in any law enforcement officers' mind, as in, he felt his life OR his partner's life was/were in danger. That defense is never allowed to be used by any citizen that may find some policeman pointing a gun at him or her. 

Early one Sunday morning in West Philadelphia, a neighbor of mine had some form of mental breakdown and ran out of the house with a kitchen butter knife dressed only in his drawers.

As those of us on the block heard the commotion, we all arrived outside just as the police arrived. The police surrounded the man. The neighbors began pleading with the police not to shoot the man, explaining he had mental issues.

The street where the man and police were positioned ran perpendicular to a smaller adjacent one way street.

The police on the scene, about 6 of them, were talking to the man, telling him to lower the knife. Most had re-holstered their weapons. As the man was lowering the knife, a late arriving cop screeched to a halt on the adjacent street, leaping out of the car, running with his gun drawn. 

As the cops already there looked on, the late cop ran straight up to the man and shot him dead. Shortly after the shooting, after the body was removed, street cleaners came and washed the blood away. There was no investigation of my neighbor's murder.    

This type of action, more often than not, always results in leniency for any members of law enforcement involved in killing a civilian. The excuse is always the tenseness of the circumstances etc.

That's where the training is supposed to kick in so they do not respond in the way most 'regular' people feeling threatened might.

In addition to the Blue Line, where police usually keep each others' secrets and not 'rat' on a fellow officer, there is also fear within the legal system that if police are prosecuted for wrong doing, they will no longer do the job they are hired to do.

In Philadelphia, for decades, a group of crooked police, turned in cookie cutter police reports, same story, same bogus evidence over and over, framing scores of innocent people. In nearly all of the cases, the reluctance of the district attorney's office to pursue any complaint or look into the matter was standard operating procedure.

Finally, after decades and a change of administration, scores of individuals were released after losing years from their lives because of the accepted infallibility or alleged to be 'honest' mistake(s) made by those in law enforcement.

I've watched testimony offered by Asian Americans on CSPAN regarding alleged police misconduct and insensitivity.

An elderly Asian man had been killed outside his home due to confused events caused by a language barrier. After the elderly man was killed, his home was searched, thoroughly ransacked is more like it, looking for shurikins (throwing stars), nunchukas etc., to justify the police's assertion that they feared for their lives because all Asians know Kung Fu. No weapons of any kind were found.

Whether there are only a few bad apples or not, with these individuals with such life and death decisions in their hands in any given situation, a few is too many.