@georgetakei This kind of thing must stop, we can’t recycle bad cops back into the system. The thin blue line must be broken!

@georgetakei Thank you for posting this. Everyone should know where he is and every Carroll County resident should know who he is.

@georgetakei White supremacy’s revolving door.

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Kentucky, like most states, does not have a licensing system for police (deputy sheriffs, etc). So there is not even a theoretical way to prevent a fired cop from being hired by another department. Sheriffs and Police Chiefs have a tremendous amount of discretion about hiring and firing.
It is one part of the oddly informal system of policing in this country. Every department does its own thing.

@georgetakei This is what they always do.

@georgetakei All LEOs should have to carry personal liability insurance, like doctors and lawyers. Municipalities should take their existing insurance premium money, and distribute it as an allowance to the LEOs to pay for this, and to get out of the liability business. This insurance would be REQUIRED in order to hold a law enforcement job. If you are violent, your insurance goes up, and that comes out of your pocket. If you are too violent, or kill someone without defending yourself, you lose your insurance coverage and can no longer workin law enforcement.

@georgetakei #SickPuppies

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@georgetakei Carroll County, KY
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Carroll County, KY are White (Non-Hispanic) (88.5%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (2.92%), White (Hispanic) (2.85%), ...
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@georgetakei He just went 50 miles down the road and got another job. This is typical.

@georgetakei He should never hold a gun again.

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It's a known tactic by fired officers to work for another Police department, how can anyone have faith in the integrity of of the Police when this happens.

@georgetakei horrifying

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Wow it is like the entire institution is complicit in the crimes and evil of its members.

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why isnt there a national registry of cop-offenders like there is for people that dont pay a parking fine or for drunk-drivers who can never drive commercial again.

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Let's hope another black woman won't die sleeping in her bed because of it. Tells you a lot about that police force though.

@georgetakei There's a fair bit of blame to go around here. Personally, I'd place most of it on the government agency, the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, that had the power to revoke Cosgrove's certification to work as a cop but chose not to. Shame on Carroll County Sheriff's for hiring him, but at least as much shame on the outfit that exists for the exact purpose of preventing people who shouldn't be cops from being cops, and who officially determined that he isn't one of those people. Once they did that it was inevitable that some department was going to hire him, because from a cop perspective, the guy is a hero. It's a damn shame that cops have that perspective and it would be nice if that were to change someday, but the reason we have these oversight agencies is that it's no secret that cops have that perspective, and the agencies are supposed to limit the damage it causes. This one totally dropped the ball when they let him keep his ticket.

@georgetakei Sounds like, if that department has ANY incidents, whether involving him or not, it should be used as a proof point around hiring practices that result in punishingly high jury awards from any litigation against that PD.

@georgetakei The same thing happened in the #TamirRice case. #disgraceful

@georgetakei That's ok... the taxpayers of that county will just love the taxes they will have to pay to avoid lawsuits created by this guy.

@georgetakei some guys just can't seem to get over their addiction to shooting black and brown people. Carroll County is only 95 percent white, so that's at least 500 potential targets!!

@georgetakei Any cop can commit cold-blooded murder, get a paid vacation, lose their job move on to the next Police Department commit murder again ,get a paid vacation lose their job move on to the next Police Department commit murder again... This is why every time I hear a police officer's lost their job for committing some horrible crime I throw up in my mouth a little bit.

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I would expect this from Florida or Alabama, but Kentucky...? Oh , wait!

@georgetakei Fuck that! On top of everything else, that's one county away from my home county. We do not need more pigs like him in Northern Kentucky. We have enough.

@georgetakei #ACAB

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Not really surprised. We all know that there is a revolving door for cops.

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At every level of law enforcement, the cops who cause harm are brought back over and over to cause yet more harm. In MA a cop sexually assaulted a college student, only to be hired in another community as a school resource officer investigating sexual assaults in the schools. A Boston cop sexually abused children, but was allowed to stay on the force for so long he assaulted the child of one of his original victims. This system is unreformable.

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If police departments are looking to hire guys like this right now, how low are the standards gonna drop when they get money from the Biden Administration to hire 100,000 more cops?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/

@georgetakei predictable outrage aside, consider the massive liability the community is accepting. This guy comes with massive baggage and if he's involved in any questionable behavior any lawyer will have huge actionable leverage. So, consider the position a police force must be in to hire someone like this. This is the result of a police shortage. Want things to change, be a good person and be willing to be a cop.

@georgetakei WHY does this happen???? Do Americans not see that this is another death waiting to happen??? How do dangerous “law enforcement” agents of chaos get rehired to cause more death and destruction!?

@georgetakei agreed

@georgetakei Kentucky is in the South. Always remember.

@georgetakei this is going to be barely a larger commute, won't even be inconvenienced really

@georgetakei How is Cogrove not facing criminal charges?

@georgetakei America is sick