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Originally Posted by Gary L
Chris, people go to prison a lot longer for dealing drugs. all he had to do was do his job properly, an error of judgement isn't good enough when there's many people being prosecuted/fined/imprisoned everyday for what was an error of judgement on their part.
At the end of the day he is just another person who broke the law and paid the price. the fact that he was a "copper" makes some people think that he should be let off because he was doing his job.
his job wasn't to endanger lives, and it certainly wasn't to kill somebody as a result of doing his job wrong.
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I absolutely agree with you. I don't think he should be let off. My complaint this evening isn't that he got caught, convicted and sentenced. My complaint is that for some people the judicial process just isn't enough. Some people want to see offenders persecuted for the rest of their lives. That is not how a mature society works. I thank God that I don't live in a country like that, and it sickens me that some people really do seem to want to drag us back to the middle ages in that respect.