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We Finally Find A Good Cop. She Must Be Fired.

7:59 am - 04/19/2012
Regina Tasca is a Bogota, New Jersey, police officer who responded to a medical call to transport Kyle, an emotionally disturbed young man, to the hospital. As per protocol, she called for backup.

Her two backup officers tackled the young man and proceeded to punch him. Kyle was never charged, nor arrested, for any offense. Tasca says it's because he never threatened, did not have a weapon, and indeed never resisted and was not violent.

Eventually Tasca was able to pry the punching officer off Kyle, as seen in a picture taken by Kyle's mother.

After physically intervening against two violent colleagues-in-blue, Tasca'a job is at stake. She faces a departmental trial on charges that she's "psychologically unfit" to be a police officer.

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the_archandroid 19th-Apr-2012 01:45 pm (UTC)
I think that she is psychologically unfit, so to speak, because she is able to engage in rational thought. Being able to engage in rationale thought, means that there may come a time when she would question the motives of her superiors instead of blindly following along. And it may also mean that she'll speak out if she sees something wrong happening, instead of maintaining the wall of secrecy that seems to be an unspoken rule for police officers. I can understand completely why that would render her "unfit" for duty. Similar to the army, the police force is not a place that prizes or values independent thinking, and this incident shows that Tasca is doing a little too much of that.
Add that to the fact that she's a woman in what is most likely a male dominated field, and it's probable that they were waiting for an opportunity to push her out.

ETA: tl;dr - exactly what maladaptive said

Edited at 2012-04-19 01:47 pm (UTC)
lomesir22 19th-Apr-2012 01:54 pm (UTC)
in what is most likely overwhelmingly a male dominated field

Fixed that for you.

the_archandroid 19th-Apr-2012 02:01 pm (UTC)
LOL, yep, not surprising to be honest, I haven't read any actual stats on it, but it's hard to imagine that it would be any different.
lomesir22 19th-Apr-2012 02:05 pm (UTC)
I wanted to be a police detective once upon a time, and I did a lot of research. Most estimates are that the US police force is 88% male.
castalianspring 19th-Apr-2012 02:18 pm (UTC)
I went through a similar period, and was told I would likely be rejected if I did too well on the exams, because they discouraged those who were "too smart" from applying.
doverz 19th-Apr-2012 06:12 pm (UTC)
Well that's stupid, but not surprising at all. Can't have smart cops who can think for themselves.
castalianspring 19th-Apr-2012 06:58 pm (UTC)
Yup, the reasoning I was given was that they didn't want to invest in someone who'd get bored and leave, but I didn't really buy that.
roseofjuly 19th-Apr-2012 02:36 pm (UTC)
There's also the idea that being around a bunch of bullies with a superiority complex will probably bring her a lot of anxiety and perhaps depression and anger.
kaowolfie 19th-Apr-2012 05:07 pm (UTC)
Eventually, there would come a time and a place where she couldn't stop them. Because that's how the boys in blue roll. :(
kaowolfie 19th-Apr-2012 05:10 pm (UTC)
From what I understand based on relayed stories from my granddad the cop, that wall of secrecy is much less unspoken than you might think. He let himself be put on long term disability to get away from it, back in the 70s. Then did his absolute best to make sure everybody knew not to trust the cops *ever*, especially the cops in the county I grew up in.
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