I'm not often one of those guys who believes that the top guy in a large organization needs to be fired because of something a subordinate they might not even know did. Therefore, I'm not going to go there in this instance either,... at least not for the initial indiscretion.

By now, everyone has heard about what happened in Tampa, Florida, to the quadriplegic man, Brian Sterner, who was dumped out of his wheelchair by the deputy, then searched while he was on the floor by that deputy and another deputy as a third deputy was walking away laughing at the exchange. That kind of thing can't be tolerated by any means, and I'm glad that deputy is up on charges, as she should be. In my opinion, the other deputies in the area need to be at least suspended and she should be fired, but that's not my concern right now, since it looks like justice is about to be served.

It's what didn't happen next, or even a couple of days afterwards, that I believe the top guy needs to be fired for. Multiple things that show a complete breakdown of leadership, which does start at the top. For one, I can't believe there wasn't a supervisor around who didn't immediately say something to this deputy, or anyone else, while this was going on. Two, I can't believe no one wrote up a report of any kind saying what happened with all those witnesses around. And three, knowing something about sociology and the group mentality, I don't believe that this police commissioner hadn't heard word one about the incident, because that's the kind of story that moves fast. I mean, hello, a reporter not only heard about it, but got a copy of the tape just by asking, and he's the one who presented it to the commissioner. This wasn't the NYC Police Authority, with literally thousands of officers after all.

It's incidences like this that make many of us not trust the police. Not only did they violate this man's civil rights and injure him (broken ribs), they then tried to throw up what is known as the "blue wall of silence" by not even following their own procedures for documenting what happened. I'm wondering how the heck all these folks forgot about the tape; I'm surprised it wasn't erased immediately afterwards. It's because of a breakdown this rampant that I believe top heads need to take responsibility and leave. If training has become this bad, I'm not hesitant to say I'm worried about just who is walking around carrying weapons, and I'm not talking about the criminals either.

Yeah, maybe this is a bit harsh, but if this were the military, he would be gone, or at least demoted. And we interact way more often with the police than the military, so they need to be held more accountable to the people.

Total breakdown of leadership across the board; we can't afford that with our law enforcement.