At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. “OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,” said an investigator.

Finally, after curling up with the dog on the floor, Perez broke down and confessed. He said he had stabbed his father multiple times with a pair of scissors during an altercation in which his father hit Perez over the head with a beer bottle.

Perez’s father wasn’t dead — or even missing. Thomas Sr. was at Los Angeles International Airport waiting for a flight to see his daughter in Northern California. But police didn’t immediately tell Perez.

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    man, it’s a good thing police forces are private institutions funded by their own dollar.

    That’s the entire point. Police stations are tax funded. They torture someone into a false confession and the station gets fined $900 000, which comes from taxes, so they don’t fucking care.

    What I said was: the cost of lawsuits would come out of the police officer’s pockets, not the police precinct’s. The Officers would be paying the insurance costs out of their paychecks. Each lawsuit means the officer ends up with less money. If a specific precinct keeps having lawsuits against it that will result in higher rates for working in a “high risk precinct”. Lawsuits should result in financial consequences for the people involved, not for tax payers.

    legally, it should be the court, and a jury.

    There should absolutely be legal consequences for the officers involved here. How much do you want to bet there won’t be?

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 months ago

      That’s the entire point. Police stations are tax funded. They torture someone into a false confession and the station gets fined $900 000, which comes from taxes, so they don’t fucking care.

      the problem here is that they aren’t reprimanded or punished, they need to be, not that the tax payers pay someone who was abused by an institution funded by tax dollary doos.

      the cost of lawsuits would come out of the police officer’s pockets, not the police precinct’s. The Officers would be paying the insurance costs out of their paychecks. Each lawsuit means the officer ends up with less money. If a specific precinct keeps having lawsuits against it that will result in higher rates for working in a “high risk precinct”. Lawsuits should result in financial consequences for the people involved, not for tax payers.

      a decent trick here would be forcing the police dept to represent itself, or the officers more specifically. That would come out of the budget fund, and then be an immediate problem.

      There should absolutely be legal consequences for the officers involved here. How much do you want to bet there won’t be?

      yeah, we literally run this country though, so i don’t know why you’re sitting here trying to argue something that isn’t actually legal punishment, and then sitting here and complaining about the fact that there won’t be, even though you’re literally steel manning your own argument there.