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Did your dad arrest him?
I thought it was 7 DUIs in 2022, but no, that's just in the last TWO WEEKS! >

"Officers driving under the influence while off-duty has been a persistent problem at the LAPD for many years, blamed by some department insiders on wildly inconsistent punishments for officers caught-in-the-act..."
You don't say. >

It’s a problem in every department, especially small rural departments. Shit, in those departments the cops are drunk on duty. We need to start holding police officers to the same standards we hold average citizens. >

No, we need to hold them to higher standards. 
I don’t know about you, but I don’t run around with a gun always on my person and a full blown assault kit in my car. I don’t ruin people’s entire lives with my judgment calls. And I don’t end people’s freedom and prospects for a decent life.  
They need to be held to a higher standard than the average person because they’ve been entrusted with great power. Power they’ve shown they are not fit to wield >

I wholeheartedly agree.
The only problem is, how do we police the police? Their internal affairs department isn’t doing enough to weed out their “bad apples,” and the average citizen is too busy working (hello student debt, medical bills, unaffordable housing, rising gas and food prices) to attend town hall meetings or disciplinary hearings for officers. 
Again, I’m not disagreeing with you, but that’s one very large obstacle. >

The answer is the installation of a non-biased department that has no partisan or police affiliation, that withholds the PD to the standards, practices, and laws they must abide by. 
A few problems:
1. The police is not going to want that. 
2. Who installs them anyway?
3. Pay comes from... the taxpayers? Sure as hell ain't going to come from the police budget (see #1).
There's definitely more, but I'm not coffee'd yet. >

If it works it can be funded by the lack of lawsuits against police. >

Sooo... The taxpayers?
And that's going to come from the form of a mileage or a state bill. No one's going to like paying additional taxes. >

In saying the lack of oversight is already a drain on taxpayers money >

My mom’s a teacher and one of her student’s dad was a cop who was drinking and driving and hit and killed a friend of hers on the road. >

My dad was a cop and worked with a guy who cracked beers on his drive home after every shift.