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TL/DR: As a cop in Youngstown, Ohio, Lieutenant Brian Flynn was charged with 14 counts of dereliction of duty, including “failure to investigate numerous cases of child sex abuse or child pornography.” He was fired, and then charges were dropped on a technicality.

He was then hired as a cop in the neighboring town of Poland, Ohio, where he was assigned as a school cop, despite the bit about failure to investigate child sex abuse or child pornography. After public outcry, he’s no long a school cop. Instead he’s been reassigned to road patrol, because “Not every police officer is a good school officer,” says the schools superintendent.

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reduce their power, don’t need to remove them entirely. Every worker should have the security of one, on principle. There just need to be common sense limits to their power when it comes to such high stakes, judgment-heavy jobs as police.

    • misanthropy@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Nah, fuck the police, they shouldn’t have a union. They should have extremely high standards but instead they hand a gun to any moron who can go through 6 weeks of “training”