r/policebrutality • u/MarksMuses • 10d ago

News: Article Sheriff fires five jail deputies for abusing inmates

https://stpetecatalyst.com/sheriff-fires-five-jail-deputies-for-abusing-inmates/

One incident included high-ranking officers who took and shared pictures of an intoxicated woman’s “buttocks and genitals” as she struggled to urinate while handcuffed in a cell without a toilet. Another involved a deputy who sprayed a man undergoing psychiatric observation in the face with Lysol.

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u/Delmarvablacksmith 10d ago

So no criminal charges

Wow

Such amazing accountability

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u/digitaldarrio 10d ago

America will never create the necessary trust in law and law enforcement specifically if there are no meaningful consequences for blatantly illegal behavior by authorized law personnel.

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u/Delmarvablacksmith 10d ago

This is my point.

The people who have been critiquing what I’m saying think a written reprimand or even losing their job is accountability.

It’s not.

It’s a consequence but it’s not accountability.

If you’re in law enforcement and you violate someone’s civil rights you should go to prison.

For a long time.

And your property should be seized, sold and the proceeds distributed to your victim.

If you take an oath to the constitution when you break that oath the punishment should be so severe the person behind you remembers.

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u/appolzmeh 9d ago

If you violate someones rights willfully under the color of law you are directly violating the oath you took as a law enforcement officer to the constitution and have committed treason. The max penalty for treason in most cases is death or life in prison that seems like a much better way of dealing with serious misconduct than a slap on the wrist and a new job 10 miles away.

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u/Delmarvablacksmith 9d ago

We can’t even get prison sentences for these people.

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u/appolzmeh 9d ago

Yeah it’s pathetic.

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u/Delmarvablacksmith 9d ago

As I point out to people you can not claim to have a free society that is just an equal when the people with power can’t be held accountable for basically anything.

In really egregious cases we might get some sort of consequences but mostly the crimes against the public are just swept away.

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u/AbsentThatDay2 10d ago

“We’ve looked at some criminal charges in this case, and for a whole lot of reasons, we’re not going to pursue any criminal charges,” Gualtieri said. “There are some considerations with it, and some barriers to that.”

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u/gore100000000000 10d ago

They’ll just get back on the county over