[Pecos]

I like the idea of the personal liability bond. Screw ups like this would put them off the force permanently for lack of the ability to post bonds in the future.

In Virginia, if a person kills another in self defense, the law states that the person still standing is to be automatically charged with the death of the other, with an investigation to follow. [This would encourage the philosophy of “shoot, shovel, shut up”, all else being equal.] The question I have is this: Is this true in the case of a shooting by police, and if not, why not? I realize that this could be taken as a sarcastic rhetorical question, like a lot of others that I post; in this case it is not. I am REALLY getting tired of people with uniforms considering themselves above the law, like the folks that write the laws do.

[New Professionalism]

In Virginia, if a person kills another in self defense, the law states that the person still standing is to be automatically charged with the death of the other, with an investigation to follow.

That is simply not true. There have been plenty of cases of self-defense shootings in which it was clear enough that the person was not charged. To have a law requiring an automatic charging with a crime, without some kind of investigation and consideration of the evidence and actual facts first, would almost certainly be a violation of due process. Not that that seems to mean very much anymore.