Wrongful Police Shooting

Police shootings are nothing short of an epidemic in this country and while we as a society hope that only those who act with the greatest amount of care, compassion, and responsibility will be allowed the privilege of becoming police officers, the unfortunate fact is that police departments like the NYPD are consistently relaxing their hiring criteria making it much easier for those with proclivities to violence to obtain a badge, a gun and a license to kill. Moreover, while agencies like the CCRB are formed with the best intentions, they are frequently ineffectual at curbing violence and holding officers accountable for their misconduct. In many instances, their investigative criteria are skewed with a bias towards police making their function and purpose meaningless.

Even if you are guilty of a crime, a police officer rarely has the right to use deadly force to apprehend or stop a suspect. A police officer has the right to use lethal force only in situations where their lives or the lives of others are being threatened with deadly force, however, what is becoming more frequent is that many unskilled and untrained officers have a shoot-first mentality, which leads to lies and cover-ups to conceal the criminality of their acts and rarely – if ever – results in any meaningful consequences for these officers.