Rule used in feces sandwich case at center of city, police contract talks

[TexasTowelie]

Negotiators with the City of San Antonio and the police union locked horns Tuesday over one of the most infamous loopholes in the police disciplinary process.

A clause in the city’s current contract with San Antonio Police Officers Association puts a statute of limitations on conduct violations, which means officers can’t be punished 180 days after the incident occurred.

The so-called “180-day rule” is what Officer Matthew Luckhurst cited to avoid getting fired after giving a feces sandwich to a person experiencing homelessness in 2016. Ultimately he was fired for a separate case that also involved feces.

Under the city’s proposed language, the 180-day rule would have different guidelines for minor and major misconduct. The 180-day statute of limitations after the incident would still apply to minor misconduct, or slight variances from police department policies, procedures, responsibilities and expectations. But major misconduct (significant variances) would use a discovery rule, meaning the chief has 180 days to punish an officer once the department (the chief, a captain or the Professional Standards Section) finds out about the violation.

Read more: https://sanantonioreport.org/san-antonio-fix-rule-feces-sandwich-cop/

[Gaugamela]

1. The Thin Blue Shit Stain. Isn't there some psych test that's supposed to separate

the men from pustules?

[ShazamIam]

2. I think they have been s creening for those traits since DEA in the 70s followed by all that work in

80s to use for profit prisons along with, enhancing misdemeanors to felonies, mandatory sentencing, piling on charges, creating new crimes by enhancement, failure to cooperate, plus resisting arrest, plus what ever crime was committed which could be enhanced if a weapon was used and enhanced more if a gun was used. The number of people in prison doubled during the Reagan 8 years.

We didn't become more criminal, we created more crimes and extended prison time.

When Reagan took office in 1980, the total prison population was 329,000, and when he left office eight years later, the prison population had essentially doubled, to 627,000. This staggering rise in incarceration hit communities of color hardest: They were disproportionately incarcerated then and remain so today.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/history-mass-incarceration#:~:text=When%20Reagan%20took%20office%20in%201980%2C%20the%20total,were%20disproportionately%20incarcerated%20then%20and%20remain%20so%20today.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Luckhurst left a trail when he left the department.