Comments on: Police union: expand hate crime law to include anti-cop offenses

By: Hittman

Hittman — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:16:07 +0000

If you visit Police One, where only cops are allowed to comment, you’ll see lots of bluster and outright threats posted by the police. (The site usually takes the more egregious ones down fairly quickly.) You’ll also see direct and indirect threats (“We Know Were You Live!”) made by cops on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other social media sites.

If it becomes illegal to say anything “threatening” about cops, will cops be held the the same standard?

(Just kidding. We all know that in practice, the law does not apply to cops.)

By: mx

mx — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:36:54 +0000

This could be a more reasonable (though still wrongheaded) proposal if virtually every jurisdiction didn’t already have substantially greater penalties for violence against police officers. Killing a police officer is also usually a capital crime in jurisdictions with the death penalty. What more do we need exactly?

By: John Steele

John Steele — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:04:18 +0000

After a shooting at a law firm in SF in 1993, the head of our bar suggested the same thing as to *jokes* about lawyer. Reaction to his suggestion was not charitable, to say the least.

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-06/news/mn-10560_1_san-francisco-law