The sheriff for Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office, which employed the former deputy who shot and killed Sonya Massey in her home earlier this month after she called 911 to report a possible intruder, said during public comments Monday night that they had “failed” her.
“Sonya Massey – I speak her name and I’ll never forget it,” Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell said during a “Community Healing & Listening Session” Monday night at Union Baptist Church in Springfield. “She called for help and we failed. That’s all she did: call for help."
“I’m going to say something right now I’ve never said in my career before: we failed,” Campbell continued. "We did not do our jobs. We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s family and friends. We failed the community. I stand here today before you with arms wide open to ask for forgiveness.”
“I’m going to say something right now I’ve never said in my career before: we failed,” Campbell continued. "We did not do our jobs. We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s family and friends. We failed the community. I stand here today before you with arms wide open to ask for forgiveness.”
Great. So how did you end up hiring this known asshole, and what are you going to do to keep it from happening again?
Wow, this is the first time that police department has failed with him at the helm? What an incredible record!
In the sense that it lacks credibility.
Hiring “bad apples” needs to be a crime for the sheriff, chief, etc. It’s sad that’s what it would take to keep guns and badges out of these guys hands.
“I’m going to say something right now I’ve never said in my career before: we failed,” Campbell continued. "We did not do our jobs. We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s family and friends. We failed the community. I stand here today before you with arms wide open to ask for forgiveness.”
Sounds nice, and likely sincere, but you did all those things before he killed her, when you hired and retained a man with the authority to kill with the history and issues he had. How about we stop waiting for cops to execute someone before we scrutinize them?
If there’s no actual consequences for the department, this wasn’t a failure. This was a success they don’t like getting bad PR for.
If a construction worker started cutting beams and caused the building to collapse that wouldn’t be “not doing their job”, that would be active and malicious sabotage. This isn’t even remotely an apology, it makes it sound like they just ignored a call for help, not actively created a situation that no one asked for.
Imagine if the police used some critical thinking. Discharged from the military for his conduct, 2 DUIs (thats just when he got caught). How the hell did this guy keep his job as law enforcement after the first DUI? That should pretty much immediately take you off the force. If they can’t be trusted to drive sober and responsibly, how can we trust them as a law enforcement officer? What if they showed up drunk to work as well?
This situation could have been avoided if the police were more critical of themselves as an organization and had stricter rules and regulations for themselves.
He also got let go from another law enforcement agency for arguably sexual assault.
The thing is - I’m a big believer in redemption (not in a religious sense) and self improvement. I could believe all that could be true and the guy could become a decent person at some point in the future. But you don’t (or shouldn’t) get to have a job where you have the power of life or death over everyone you interact with until after you’ve completed your redemption arc.
Yea i get that. You got 1 DUI when you were 22 and now you’re 35 and applying to be a cop? That sounds okay people can change. 3 DUIs in the 2nd year of employment as a cop? Comepletely different story.
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I’d hate to see what a colossal fuck up looks like if this is a “fail”.
Your apology is not accepted.
You need to suffer severe consequences and accountability for your actions. Severe.
So will there be police reform?!.. God no, instead:
“Please accept our apology for this tragic event which we failed to prevent. Please also accept our apology for the next tragic event we fail to prevent.”
“Sorry” is an okay first step but wont fix anything. Did you see the resume of the cop who killed her? How the fuck was he hired?
“we failed”. “we” shot the person in need of help in the head for no reason. There has to be some stronger wording this dipshit can use than “we failed”. I’d prefer “we shouldn’t exist”
Too little, too late, pig.
“We’re sowwy 👉👈😔” oh my God just fuck off and forgiveness doesn’t always deserve given. Just do better. Apologizing doesn’t wipe anything away. Just stop letting this shit happen all the time and knowing/thinking people will just half forget about it
keep voting in pro police candidates to lead the country and we end up with undertrained over funded police forces that self regulates
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