I would HOPE that one of the many things that authorities actually do tackle is the problem of the information sharing. When that rogue cop with the control issues
( "In the aftermath of the shooting, it was reported that Timothy Loehmann, in his previous job as a police officer in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, had been deemed an emotionally unstable recruit and unfit for duty.[19]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice )
can just transfer to another department or another police squad and pick up with his emotional instability and lack of fitness for duty, that does NOT solve ANYTHING!!!!!!!! That stuff HAS TO go ON that officer's record, and it HAS to be transferrable to whoever he or she is trying to get a new job with - PARTICULARLY if it's another sort of law enforcement or security-guard type job where the potential for firearm use is part of that job, or firearms are part of the equipment for that job. No gun range jobs, either! The point needs to be - people like that, who have itchy trigger fingers or short fuses or other emotional shit going on - HAVE NO BUSINESS being in jobs that include access or exposure to firearms.
That information HAS TO be on the record, in their files, and automatically transferrable from former employer to potential employer in law enforcement or security details or any of that. NOBODY with emotional instability should be employed in ANY area that involves access or exposure to guns!!!!
From the coverage of that particular story, the Tamir Rice killing, what I remember was that the new police dept Loehmann hired into - had no idea about his full background, his emotional instability, or his having been deemed unfit for duty. My memory may be faulty on that, but I do remember that was a rather strong takeaway for me, from the coverage of that tragedy. I do distinctly remember reacting - GOD! If they'd only known BEFORE they hired him!!! But it was reported as "he flamed out in the first police department, so he simply moved and applied for a job in a second police department, and minimal checking was done because he'd come from the earlier police department, so he was presumed to be okay."
Again, my memory could be faulty on that one, but then again, too, you have to consider how a lot of these police departments, and many of our law enforcement organizations are NOT interconnected and do not share info, oftentimes because they can't. They don't have the electronic infrastructure, they're not modernized in information sharing, there hasn't been the funding to bring them up to date. I have heard that SO DAMNED OFTEN about government work. The money isn't there to modernize! The funding Is NOT There! Shit, I've heard this again and again about the federal government, how their computers are old, their mainframes are old, things operate more slowly because the technology has not been upgraded or updated. Costs too much. Congress won't do anything in general and this inertia has just metastasized everywhere. And besides, nobody wants to pay taxes so there is no funding for stuff like this anyway.
Because, remember, we all need to starve the government until it shrinks down so small that we can drown it in the bathtub. You can thank that vile pile of vomit-covered shit, anti-tax hard-on grover norquist, and all his nice little republi-CON "let's keep those cuts a'comin'" apostles and disciples for that. They say money is the root of all evil? Well, funding cuts comprise another root of that same evil!
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