Buttars Seeks To Hide Police Misconduct
Why would Sen. Buttars propose a bill that would make police officer misconduct confidential? I’d love to give the guy the benefit of the doubt every once in a while but when he pulls moves as obviously stupid and bad for Utah as this…its hard.
Our police are given a near monopoly on the use of force in our society. Their use of that monopoly keeps us safe and it is a great arrangement. That doesn’t mean that we don’t need safeguards in place to protect the people from misuse of police power. This misuse happens all over our country on a regular basis. We don’t need to make it easier to hide. Its all pretty simple really. Anyone who would want to make police misconduct easy to hide is either very confused or working some agenda. Either way Utahns will suffer if Sen. Buttars has his way.
I’d recommend that Sen. Buttars and everyone else read The Agitator on a regular basis. Radley Balko has done a great job cataloguing police misconduct across the country. It happens all the time and Americans are more powerless than ever in fighting it. We don’t need people making things even worse in our state.
UPDATE 2/11/08 10:53: I just saw that Ethan is already covering Sen. Buttars poor legislating this session. Props.
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