At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. “OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,” said an investigator.
Finally, after curling up with the dog on the floor, Perez broke down and confessed. He said he had stabbed his father multiple times with a pair of scissors during an altercation in which his father hit Perez over the head with a beer bottle.
Perez’s father wasn’t dead — or even missing. Thomas Sr. was at Los Angeles International Airport waiting for a flight to see his daughter in Northern California. But police didn’t immediately tell Perez.
Says who?
It’s funny - I live in a neighborhood where I routinely need to call the police. They don’t show up.
Have you tried donating a few hundred thousand dollars to your local police union?
If you need to call the police and they don’t show up, but somehow you made it out of that situation, it sounds like you didn’t need the police.
If there are bad people in the police, there would be bad people without the police.
Some people are bad. Why give any of us more power and less oversight than the rest?
Centralized, overwhelming military power makes the formation of alternate military power structures impossible.
The idea of a police force is to prevent the formation of a gang with enough violent power to control others.
Sooo… the police exists to prevent the existence of police?
I think you mean the formation of a different violent gang. One that doesn’t extrajudiciously represent the owner classes interests.