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San Diego police misconduct
...However, among other remedies, he does plan to increase ethics training for offiers because, you know, how else are cops going to know that stalking, rape, and drunk driving are wrong?

If you’re wondering why cops might behave like this, I mean aside from the fact that their fellow officers routinely cover up for them when they break the law, the answer, according to the mayor and chief of police, is simple:

In a story published by the Union-Tribune on Friday, Mayor Jerry Sanders endorsed the plan and said he continues to fully support Lansdowne as the city’s police chief. He described the rash of incidents as an embarrassment and echoed Lansdowne’s assertion that it was correlated to stress among officers....