The question is not that a police officer can and most certainly will make mistakes on the job. As a former cop, I will tell you it is not only possible but assured. Like every other category of workers, police officers make mistakes.
So it is not that we expect police officers to be perfect; it is that as citizens, we should expect that police departments monitor officers for patterns of abuse and take drastic remedial action to retrain or remove problem officers.
But, contrary to popular belief and the spiel that police departments put out in their canned responses when outrage erupts, American cops are allowed to operate on their own and in groups and do whatever they want.
The tragic irony is that citizens are usually forced to lodge complaints to the very police department that has abused them, which is usually met with optimum hostility and intimidation.
In the final analysis, it is designed this way to ensure state and local control of the people, particularly those they wish to dominate and control.
In the case below, a former New York City Cop, who served 20 years left for Florida, one of the many violent criminals with badges whom Ron Desantis encouraged to come to Florida to police that state. In other words, Desantis called murderers and other abusers to come to that state to abuse and kill citizens there, and they re-elected him with a large plurality of the vote.
The NYPD is the world’s largest police force, with an estimated 36.000 cops on their payroll. I suspect there are many more, but the citizens are forced to pay for this monstrous force largely of indiscipline thugs whether they like it or not.
Imagine a single cop within that large army amassing 50 complaints over a period of two decades. How violent and abusive was this cop? He averaged 2.5 complaints each year and was still allowed to remain on the force to abuse citizens of the city.
Do you know why he was allowed to remain in the NYPD and was welcomed to Boca Raton with open arms? He was not allowed to remain in New York and welcomed to Florida despite being a violent thug, but because of it.
His superiors knew he was violent, but they also knew that the subject of this criminal’s violent tendencies were black people in New York City, so he was retained for twenty years.
To add insult to injury, the citizens of New York City will be forced to pay a pension and other benefits to this animal and his family for the remainder of their miserable lives.
That has always been the game plan for the NYPD and NYFD. To the members of these two departments, these public jobs belong to them s a sort of family business. So firing this low-life thug was not going to happen
Public outrage over police conduct and the amount of force used during the arrest of a pregnant Black woman has shed light on a new revelation about the officer involved. Viral clips of the May 22 incident have circulated online in recent days, drawing attention to the ongoing police investigation and the now-retired member of the force.
Former Boca Raton police officer Matthew McNichol and his partner responded to a call about a possible domestic dispute at a Mobil gas station two months ago. When they arrived on the scene, they encountered Nerillia Laurent and her boyfriend, Harry Hardy. Laurent, who was around five months pregnant at the time, confirmed to ABC 25 that she and Hardy were involved in a heated disagreement after the car stalled.
“My boyfriend was standing in front of the car trying to get me to open the hood, but I don’t know anything about cars,” said the expectant mother. Calls to 911 alleged that Hardy had been observed banging his fists on the car’s hood, but claims of a full-out domestic situation were misconstrued.
Bodycam footage showed McNichol, who is white, requesting that Laurent hand over her license and registration, but she refused. Instead, she insisted that they wait until her mother arrived. “How aggressive he was — he was scaring me. I didn’t want to piss him off anymore. I didn’t want to reach for something, and then he thinks I’m reaching for something else,” she explained. The mother of four was pulled from the vehicle after she failed to comply.
After being thrown to the ground, she screamed, “I’m pregnant! Get off my stomach.” McNichol continued to place her under arrest as he responded, “I don’t care. You don’t have a right not to give me a license and registration.” Days after the incident, Police Chief Michele Miuccio issued a statement: “While the responding officers had a duty to identify the people involved and investigate if a crime took place or anyone was at risk, one of our officer’s actions did not help to de-escalate the situation. I take our commitment to professional police service seriously and hold that expectation for all of our personnel in all interactions with the community we serve.
In a report published by the Sun Sentinel on Friday (July 7), it was revealed that McNichol was retired and that his notice was submitted on June 1, only a week after the incident occurred. Prior to working in Florida, he had been with the New York Police Department for 20 years, amassed 50 civilian complaints, and been formally disciplined five times.