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Let that be a lesson to all those shitty police officers that you will be punished for your unethical behavior with not being able to be a police officer anymore... 30 years after you retire.
a California police reform law meant to strip the badges of police officers who act criminally or with bias.
Only took 30 years to do something most people probably assumed was already a law.
I wonder if it would take 30 years to punish me for lying on the stand.
That depends.. are you a cop or rich?
On the one hand it’s a good law and I understand why the reporter would want a comment from Fuhrman.
On the other hand that was 30 years ago and he’s been retired for a long time and clearly DGAF.
Fuhrman declined to comment Friday when reached by phone. “That was 30 years ago. You guys are really up to speed,” he told an Associated Press reporter. When told that The San Francisco Chronicle had reported that his decertification became formal in May, he replied “good for them, have a nice day,” before hanging up.
Better late than never I guess.
Agree!
California law bars ex-LAPD officer Mark Fuhrman, who lied at OJ Simpson trial, from policing
That’s a very specific law.
Roughly 100 officers have been decertified since 2023.
The article is just framing this whole thing bizarrely so that OJ Simpson is in the headline to get more clicks. Looks like with the new law they're just going through and decertifying any police officer, past or present, that meets certain criteria. He hasn't been a police officer since 1995. This law was passed in 2021.
Exactly. Here's a relevant snippet from the article:
The California decertification law was passed in 2021 in the wake of the 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and took effect in 2023. The law came 18 years after lawmakers stripped that power from a state police standards commission. That left it to local agencies to decide if officers should be fired, but critics said they could often simply get a job in a different department.
This is big, although I wonder how difficult it is for an officer to move to a different state and get a job even if they were decertified by this law.
At least moving to a different state is a high enough barrier that some bad dudes will end up taking new jobs where there is less temptation to ruin lives.
Oh, that makes more sense.
In other news, Mussolini is prevented from holding office again.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him.
Better late than never I guess?
Holding Police Officers, the same ones who Murder Children or Watch Children get Gunned down in School, accountable is COMMUNISM!
It's good to see that nature is finally healing
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2024
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