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The sheriff of a California county with an outsized number of police shootings once said that it was better financially" to kill suspects than wound them.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood was looking for an endorsement in 2006 when he posed the question, When a deputy shoots somebody, which way is better financially? To cripple them or kill them for the county?
Kill them? someone off camera asks before Youngblood answers Absolutely.
"Because if you cripple them you have to take care of them for life and that cost goes way up," he said.
The damning video was released Mondayby the Kern County Detention Officers Association, one of three officers unions that had endorsed Youngbloods upcoming election opponent and chief deputy Justin Fleeman.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/better-financially-to-kill-suspects-than-wound-them-sheriff/ar-AAvI8I8?li=BBnb7Kz
MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)Yep, just plug'em full of holes, that'll save time and money.
Cop, Judge, Executioner all rolled into one!
I hope someone goes through the records to see how many people have died under his watch.
catrose
(5,077 posts)when relatives sue the county to kingdom come (as they certainly should), medical costs are more out of control than I thought.
Even if true, what kind of person would say such a thing to what kind of approving audience?
I know, rhetorical question.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)to kill.