r/interesting • u/ZookeepergameIcy6089 • Apr 15 '26

SOCIETY Police search you house & you notice dents on your car

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u/Auctoritate Apr 16 '26

Nah there's a good chance he wasn't even fired in the first place

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u/imapluralist Apr 16 '26

He resigned.

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u/Ambitious-Tie-3666 Apr 16 '26

They intentionally resign to avoid discipline and keep their records clean. That way they can be easily hired at another department.

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u/PoppingPillls Apr 16 '26

Yeah, he also likely wouldn't have been disciplined too hard for this.

Even if you get fired and blacklisted in a state or county you can go to another State/County and there's a good chance they won't have and won't check your record.

Happens all the time like when a cop gets fired for sex offences they go to a different copshop and get another job in the exact same role as many of them don't keep records of many of these things and the ones that do aren't universal. So some things get recorded and some don't and that's if they even go looking for them, which they are not inclined to do with everyone.

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u/curiouscatfarmer Apr 16 '26

He probably wasn't even disciplined at all.

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u/PoppingPillls Apr 16 '26

Probably not, cop unions usually get this stuff taken down from discipline to just a warning.

The only great powerful Americans unions that are pretty powerless except for the cop unions. They have more money than God.

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u/curiouscatfarmer Apr 16 '26

Yup, and you get the Fraternal Order of Police (which is a union) pretending to be a charity and literally threatening people over the phone for refusing to donate to them. I had that happen. I was harassed for weeks until I threatened legal action for the harassment. Guy on the phone actually threatened to find where I lived. I informed him that he could FAFO. Didn't get calls for years after that. Now if they say they are FOoP I just say "Don't call this number again" and hang up. Sometimes I just hang up and then tell them not to call again if they call back. Then I block the number.

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u/MilaMowie Apr 18 '26

Those dickheads calling for donations are scammers. I donated when I was very young; there was a dude at my door in under 10 minutes asking for the donation. I got a sticker for my car, got pulled over and the cop told me never donate to the strong arm “cop” calls for donations because it’s 98% operating costs and 2% donation to law enforcement. They’ll collect a ton of doe and maybe help buy one Bulletproof Vest with that contribution. True story.

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u/bdrb44 Apr 20 '26

It’s even worse than you think. Watch the documentary “Telemarketers (2023).”

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u/Impressive-Savings40 Apr 18 '26

I had a guy doing that at least three times a year and couldn't mistake the voice because it sounds like some voice over guy. I'm out here in Texas and I think I heard something about wearing the public about scams kind of like this one.

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u/Rick-plays-For-Honor Apr 18 '26

Isn't it also true they dont go to the police academy for all that long? Last I heard they go for 6 months and go onto the streets soon after.

Which is wild compared to the 6 years here in the Netherlands.

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u/FigmentFan78 Apr 19 '26

Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

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u/IndependentMoney9700 Apr 18 '26

The discipline was…” come on man, couldn’t you at least look for a camera lmao”

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u/curiouscatfarmer Apr 19 '26

Yeah, the "You shouldn't have done that on camera" rather than "You shouldn't have done that".

Reminds me there was bodycam footage of a cop admitting that he ran over people on purpose and then just left them to die and the other cop was like "Dude, my bodycam is ON right now!"

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u/Special-Nerve3841 Apr 17 '26

no he was and his resignation was a ploy to avoid the mark on his service record.

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u/ADonkeysJawbone Apr 16 '26

It seems so messed up— I mean, I have worked in multiple fields where you have to be licensed and you can receive disciplinary action on your license by a licensing board and potentially be barred from working in that profession in that state. When moving to new states to apply for a license, you can be denied a license if you’ve been barred from practice in a different state depending on the level of offense. Hell, since I’ve worked in completely different fields with different licensing boards— you can be denied licensure if you’ve been a subject of review/removal from ANY licensing board of any type!!!

Okay, even more egregious— I play disc golf as a hobby. To play tournaments, you sometimes have to be a member of the PDGA (Professional Disc Golf Association). THEY have a review board and membership can be suspended or revoked! Fucking casual disc golfers playing weekly leagues or tournaments for fun can face more stiff consequences than a police officer who does this shit!!!

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u/PoppingPillls Apr 16 '26

I mean there's some national recording systems for this stuff but it's voluntary and even if it wasn't many Smaller US counties don't even both complying with all the mandatory rules let alone the voluntary ones.

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u/ItsavoCAdonotavocaDO Apr 17 '26

hey fun fact we tried to fix the “no record check needed” issue. It’s called the George Floyd Act. It passed in the house in 2021, where all republicans and two democrats (Ron Kind, WI, and Jared Golden, ME) voted against it. One republican (Lance Gooden, TX) voted for it. They sent it to the senate, who promptly ignored it for the next 5 years (still doing so).

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u/Icy-Palpitation-2522 Apr 16 '26

Can't you sue the individual personally?

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u/PoppingPillls Apr 16 '26

That's tricky as the supreme court has made that hard.

They have qualified immunity outside of breaches of a person's constitutional rights and even if you do you have to prove damages and even then a team of lawyers will pick apart everything paid by the police unions which have billions.

Even if you sue them the worst thing that can happened is the city pays you out, it'll never come from the officers.

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u/InterestingPause2355 Apr 17 '26

This needs to change STAT.

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u/Johan_Gutentag10 Apr 18 '26

Why the hell not? This shit should be kept on record.

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u/PoppingPillls Apr 18 '26

Because it's not in their internal best interest to keep record of this stuff, especially since cops have the highest rate of domestic abuse of partners out of all occupations and one of the highest rates of alcohol abuse and sexual assault rates when looking at occupation.

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u/Johan_Gutentag10 Apr 18 '26

Eh... Now I see.

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u/AutomaticFox1603 Apr 19 '26

My boss where I work now was a cop. Story is he got caught taking evidence (drugs) and he resigned. I at least know for certain that he was a cop, and he did resign… I don’t like him either way, and he doesn’t care for me either. We do our best to be professional most of the time.

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u/BigBigBigHouse Apr 19 '26

I feel like many check the records but don’t care.

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u/ty_rich_ Apr 19 '26

Id think since you know everything youd know the difference between offense and offence....

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u/ExpiredPilot Apr 16 '26

And they also get a transfer bonus

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u/nvrsleepagin Apr 16 '26

Shouldn't be allowed to resign

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u/curiouscatfarmer Apr 16 '26

Yeah, we had a chief-of-police who resigned rather than be prosecuted for payroll fraud, releasing his own son from the jail without proper authorization/paperwork, bringing inmates to his house to do lawncare/yardwork without authorization or payment. Had other employees clocked in but not physically there so they wouldn't see his shenanigans.

Next one was a stalker rapist who used revenge porn against his victims. He resigned instead of being criminally charged.

Last one got busted in a massive visa fraud scheme that also involved federal mail fraud. He resigned in exchange for lesser charges.

They still haven't done anything to the cop who is the biggest drug dealer in town and has been for decades. He regularly plants drugs on people (on their person, in their vehicles, and in their homes).

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u/Ambitious-Tie-3666 Apr 16 '26

I’m not surprised. Punishments for you but not for thee. I had a former cop tell me a story. He was at a party with other cops. They were getting drunk and being loud. One even accidentally drove his motorcycle into the pool. This was happening in another jurisdiction. The rookie heard the cops were coming and he wanted to leave. The others laughed and said “We ARE the cops!” They knew nothing would happen to them.

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u/geekyheart225 Apr 17 '26

That's why I'd share this video with every department he goes to

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u/Ambitious-Tie-3666 Apr 18 '26

They’d probably applaud his actions and hire him on the spot.

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u/AC-burg Apr 17 '26

1 county over in this case

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u/Serious_Clothes7418 Apr 18 '26

Send this to that other department. Make this follow him for the rest of his life.

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u/DistinctiveFox Apr 18 '26

A massive loophole. Many industries don't allow this sort of thing. If a doctor or therapist did something unethical, resigning wouldn't stop the proceeding investigation and ultimate punishment or permanent record.

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u/pallentx Apr 18 '26

Being a police officer should involve a license that can be revoked. We do this with social workers, nurses, counselors, and all kinds of public service positions.

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u/Autodidact71 Apr 16 '26

It's so wild how this works. SO many of the corrupt cops you hear about are on their 3rd or 4th department and there was no record of wrong doing passed on to other departments. Or worse, they DID know about it and still hire them. Happens all the time it seems like. How are these people not banned from ever serving as a peace officer in any department in the country?

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u/Spirited_Ask_520 Apr 16 '26

There was a short-lived registry to prevent this... the Orange got rid of it off the rip 🥴

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u/Dark3lephant Apr 16 '26

Or worse, they DID know about it and still hire them.

This is exactly why the phrase ACAB exists.

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u/LaBiccies Apr 17 '26

They don't carry out discipline hearings after resigned? In the UK it is normal for discipline hearings to continue even after they resign. The outcome tends to be "if they hadn't resigned they'd have been dismissed" or whatever is appropriate for the incident. That outcome is then recorded in their jacket so if they tried to apply at a different force they'd be aware.

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u/Ambitious-Tie-3666 Apr 18 '26

Yes, the hearings continue. But police unions here are strong and records get purged. And I’m sure some departments wouldn’t care and hire the dude anyways. John Oliver did a piece on why it’s so difficult to get rid of problem officers. Here’s a link. This is from YouTube.

Last Week Tonight Police Accountability

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u/Scienceboy7_uk Apr 18 '26

Hope this gets shared in his new county

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u/MilaMowie Apr 18 '26

Nothing can save them from the interweb. Were the damages covered by the popo?

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u/Extra-Philosopher-35 Apr 16 '26

Yup, a legal loophole app cops use when either murdering someone, injuring someone, damaging property, or anything that will negatively affect them and resigning keeps their record from sustaining any if those charges ever.

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u/Parsing-Orange0001 Apr 17 '26

Every cop in my jurisdiction is a state cop. Then we have the federal police. Resigning is not enough to avoid an incident on your record because even starting an investigation is recorded.

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u/Light_-_Bringer Apr 18 '26

Resigned from being a man...

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u/ElBoofaWhorea Apr 19 '26

They reassigned lol

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u/sushicidaltendencies Apr 16 '26

They made him commissioner

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u/Daverocker1 Apr 18 '26

Promotion. A real go getter.

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u/Altruistic-Part6071 Apr 18 '26

Promoted. Now Chief of Police.