Here's a thought ...

Radley Balko has a post about the Pace University football player who was shot and killed last year by a police officer, and how the officer has not been charged:

A grand jury said Monday that a police officer did not commit a crime when he killed a Pace University football player in a confused series of events last year, according to the the district attorney's office.

Of course, other witnesses dispute the officers' account of the incident.

So I started thinking, why not automatically charge every police officer who shoots a citizen?

'But Packetman, then no one would want to be a cop', you say.

Which begs the question - Why, then, are people joining the police force in the first place?

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