Never was

Look into Serpico, a whistleblowing cop who was set up to be killed by the department back in 1970's NY. There's a great movie about the incident starring Al Pacino, too.

What rock have you been living under? It's not even that there has never been accountability in the "American Police Forces", there's never been accountability in any place of power in the US. This is true for a most of the world throughout all of history but since the thread is about the US I chose to reference that specifically.

Yeah, he didn't like the press his efforts were bringing, so he backtracked. If this hadn't hit the news he'd be happily prosecuting.

Well I feel confident saying that any defense attorney who goes up against them would have a real easy job if I were on the jury. Maybe they can't be arrested, but holy shit can they become a liability to the force

First time I've heard of a cop getting a suspension WITHOUT pay.

Resulting once again in all cops being bastards.

The confidential disciplinary proceeding was making the racist cops man the barbeque at the cookout and their beers weren't allowed to be cold.

One bad apple spoils the bunch. In the police... there are so many bad apples...

I'd think that, since this conversation happened on public property, and the conversation was among public servants, the conversation is subject to the same standards as any other public conversation.

Maybe the legal system is too stupid for that, though.

My essential problem with the concept of two party consent is that the problem isn't, and never has been, people recording things that they personally see or hear.

The problem is what they do with those recordings.

I think if a person has real memory problems and records audio of all their conversations just so they can make notes for themselves later, few would find fault with that, regardless of consent.

If a person recorded everything but is was like a black box on an airplane, literally only reviewed after something horrible happens to the person but otherwise inaccessible to them or anyone else, I think few would have a problem with that.

If you're recording people with the intent to distribute the recordings or to train AI, many people would have a problem with that.

Maybe you can achieve something reasonable with two party and reasonable exceptions, just to make it easier on law enforcement. But I tend to think it makes more sense to start with one party consent and then strictly control what people can do or intend to do with recordings that lack consent.

In this case, the one cop was very specifically not being a bastard. As much as we need to keep calling out shitty behavior, we also need to reinforce good behavior.