Imagine you are a police officer on patrol when a fellow officer, a lifelong family friend of yours, transmits over the radio that he is in pursuit of a motorist. Shortly thereafter, the officer reports that the fleeing motorist crashed into a parked car. You immediately respond to the scene to assist. When you arrive you see the officer arresting the motorist, who has his hands cuffed behind his back and who is bleeding from a cut to his face. You then see the motorist spit toward the officer. The officer immediately reacts by punching the subject in the face. The officer then throws the subject to the ground and spits in the subject’s face. After lifting the subject to his feet and pushing him back into the back of the patrol car,
Imagine you are a police officer on patrol when a fellow officer, a lifelong family friend of yours, transmits over the radio that he is in pursuit of a motorist. Shortly thereafter, the officer reports that the fleeing motorist crashed into a parked car. You immediately respond to the scene to assist. When you arrive you see the officer arresting the motorist, who has his hands cuffed behind his back and who is bleeding from a cut to his face. You then see the motorist spit toward the officer. The officer immediately reacts by punching the subject in the face. The officer then throws the subject to the ground and spits in the subject’s face. After lifting the subject to his feet and pushing him back into the back of the patrol car, the officer looks at you and says “Sometimes you gotta take care of business yourself, old school”. What would you do? Would it make a difference to know your department has a policy that requires the reporting of officer misconduct and explains the steps to file such reports?
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