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by content_sesh 1796 days ago
I'd argue that by their own criteria, every member of the Pasco Sheriffs Office should be on this list, given that rates of domestic violence are 2-4x higher in police household than US households in general.

citation: https://sites.temple.edu/klugman/2020/07/20/do-40-of-police-...

edit: Someone posted an unredacted version of the 2018 version of the Pasco Sheriffs Office ILP manual in another comment. Appendix B lays out the specific criteria they use. It appears they tally up the number arrests or bookings (but "suspicions" are not counted). I'm not a criminal law expert, but it sounds like that just means the more times the cops haul you in the higher your score is, even if you're never convicted of any of it.

So my initial comment wasn't quite right. Their criteria provides even more incentive to not book fellow cops for misbehavior, as that happening too many times (even if nothing comes of it) would make them pop on this list.

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I have a couple of friends who were regularly arrested by the police, and kept over the weekend until they would drop charges. Naturally the more it happened the more they would tell the cops how they really feel, continuing the circle of life.
Note that this link is a new study, not the previous bogus 40% study that had a very small sample size and counted yelling as violence.