Cop Who Allegedly Said ‘We Don’t Have Time For This’ Before Shooting Schizophrenic Teen Dead Has Bee

[2banon]

95. commenting on a point you made: "some are deranged psychopaths"

I think I recall hearing it mentioned that cops go through some sort of 'psychiatric evaluation' before getting hired or maybe it's done before entering the academy or other training institution. ?????

Assuming that's true, there does seem to be woefully inadequate considering there does seem to be a huge number of psychotic killers armed and wearing the badge of authority to shoot to kill whenever deemed appropriate in their judgement.

So we have woefully inadequate policies in place, supporting this psychotic behavior, and woefully inadequate oversight in dealing with this behavior.

And that's as polite as I can put it.

I live in the SF Bay Area. and this happens quite often here.

Last week we had lethal shooting of a Bart Police officer, accidently shot by his partner in a circumstance that raises questions to me. They were not rookie cops. But this event occurred in a suspect's' apartment they were reportedly seeking to arrest.

The details were never made clear on who that suspect was or what crime he/she committed.

The suspect wasn't there and the apt turned out to be empty (of people) except for the two Bart Police officers. One assumes this lethal accident happened because they anticipated an armed confrontation, and therefore mistaken judgements were made, etc, then tragedy occurred.

Accidents do happen because of bad judgement, but it seems to me the 'shoot at anything that moves' culture within the institutions is just plain sociopathic at it's core.

The nature of the job doesn't do anything to help reduce these problems, but at the minimum a regular mental evaluation of all officers should be conducted as a matter of policy imo.