(Three complaints and you’re out) Should Citizens Have the Right to Fire a Police Officer?

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. Sounds reasonable in theory.

Its obvious that the police cannot be trusted to investigate themselves, and governments of all stripes who require their muscle have no interest in reigning them in.

That said, such as system could enable wrongful vendettas against otherwise good officers.

In cases of systemic malfeasance I think damages should be paid to victims from the police pension fund, as a deterrent to the wall of silence and complicity thats endemic among departments everywhere.