While the chyron focuses on one cop having 3 DUIs thrown out, the real gist of the story seems to be:
Greater reliance on field sobriety tests, rather than breathalyzers, due to breathalyzers not being useful for so many forms of “influence”.
Tennessee is backlogged in processing blood tests for intoxicating substances.
Field sobriety tests are imperfect, resulting in sober drivers being arrested and charged with DUI.
In fairness, this isn’t necessarily police behaving badly…but I didn’t want to start a thread just for limitations of our justice system that cause headaches for innocent people.
Sheriff shoots and kills the judge in his chambers.
Details are fuzzy, but there was a sheriff from the same county recently alleged to have coerced sex from a woman in exchange for leniency. May be the same person, or related.
According to a tourism website, the county is renowned for its judge shooting, Appalachian mountain hiking trails, horseback riding, fishing and outdoor camping.
Posting an excerpt below in case this gets paywalled. If more than 200 police officers were criminally charged, I have to think a multiple of that were not charged. Likely a huge number of victims.
Article:
The agency began drafting the new guidance in September, after a Washington Post investigation
revealed that predatory school police officers have used their positions to meet, groom and exploit students, while the Justice Department and many law enforcement agencies and school systems have failed to take basic steps to prevent sexual misconduct and root out abusive cops.
The Post identified more than 200 elementary, middle and high school police officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022. Dozens of these cops were accused of violating children on school grounds, including in their offices.
Somewhere in one of these GoA threads I remember being against liberal use of school resource officers and somebody being extremely for them. Wish it were easier to find.
Is it just “enforcing the law” or behaving badly by being an incredible asshat while under the guise of enforcing the law? Doesn’t matter, we should all have better than this.