One of the consequences of the protests ignited by the death of Eric Garner is a willingness of authorities to hold particularly egregious examples of law enforcement misconduct to account.
I don't think that it will last, but I wish that it would.
Case in point, here in my own county, a Baltimore City Police sergeant was sentenced to a year in jail for abusing his office in a dispute with a building contractor.
3 Years ago, this guy might have gotten a week or so of unpaid leave, and now he is going to jail:
A Baltimore Police sergeant accused in summer 2020 of extorting, kidnapping and threatening to arrest a home contractor was sentenced Monday to one year in jail by a Baltimore County judge who called the incident “thuggish.”
James Lloyd, 47, who worked in the department’s Homicide Unit, entered an Alford plea last month to a charge of misconduct in office, court records show, connected to a dispute with the contractor over a patio project. An Alford plea acknowledges that there is enough evidence to secure a conviction but stops short of a guilty plea.
As part of the plea agreement, authorities withdrew charges of kidnapping and extortion against Lloyd.
Circuit Court Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr. sentenced Lloyd to three years in the Baltimore County Detention Center and suspended all but one year, followed by 18 months of unsupervised probation.
Good. There needs to be more of this.
Training does not work, but consequences do.
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