Constantly beating the crap out of, and even torturing (and occasionally killing) minorities. I'd say that, even if they never proved he was torturing or killing, sometime in the middle of season one he would be, at the very least, kicked off the force permanently.
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I'd say he wouldn't last long, especially with all the cell phone cameras out there now.
Let's be bad guys.
The show took certain creative liberties as it is. You think in real life he would have lasted very long even ten or fifteen years ago? Most likely not. Following the same suspension of disbelief, he'd last about just as long today.
shareThe show took certain creative liberties as it is. You think in real life he would have lasted very long even ten or fifteen years ago? Most likely not. Following the same suspension of disbelief, he'd last about just as long today.
lol And cops don't still get away with perceived crime today?
shareConstantly beating the crap out of, and even torturing (and occasionally killing) minorities. I'd say that, even if they never proved he was torturing or killing, sometime in the middle of season one he would be, at the very least, kicked off the force permanently.
Do you know what happened to the cops that got filmed beating the *beep* out of Rodney King? Nothing.Actually, Stacey Koon and Laurence M. Powell both served 2 1/2 years in prison and lost their jobs. The other two officers, Theodore J. Briseno and Timothy E. Wind were both fired.
you mean at a day and age where are police officer gets fired for not shooting a perp? Yeah, I guess Vic would have been chief of police in no time.
...but they hung him anyway.
Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
He wouldn't last very long these days...even if he was beating down a pedophile serial killer.
Some people may deserve the treatment of their unorthodox methods but the trouble is the ones dispensing justice lack the wisdom in their judgement of who to dispense it to. It's kind of like Jack Baur in 24...Jack typically only tortured evil people in a last minute life or death situation. But real life has, far too often, had the innocent get mixed up in their zealot methods.
I may be a bit controversial here bt I think he would do just fine...within the context of the show he had the backing of Gilroy ( for a while at least,even if he was a falling down drunk) and the admiration of the entire barn who most likely cover for him...I'm sure he had a level of deniability (or justification) for any beatdowns he handed out, and he did seem to brush off a gangbangers lawsuit in the 1st or 2nd episode like it was nothing with a pretty plausible (if not a little arrogant) explanation...although some hoods seemed to be a bit outta his range...I seem to recall he tried threatening some Russian mobsters who basically told him to go f##k himself as they had a good lawyer...they told him to save the tough guy act for the minorities that he usually deals with.
shareI think you'd have to go back to the 1950s for a cop as crooked and violent as Vic to get away with a pattern of abuses. Any single bad incident he may have been able to get away with -- cops seem to get a generous benefit of the doubt on one-off incidents -- but again and again? At a certain point, the political management of the LAPD would have sidelined him.
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