Imagine that you are, let's say, the treasurer of a large corporation, and you start embezzling some of the company's money into your own pockets, which is of course highly illegal.
Now imagine that you get caught doing it, but you get away with your crime by simply quitting your position in that company. That's it. You quit, and you get away with your crime. Neither the company itself nor the government will pursue further. You don't get put on trial, you don't get any conviction. At most, perhaps some individual person could try to sue you, but it's up to them.
Or imagine if you are a nurse in a large hospital, and you start giving poison to patients under your care, and when you are find out, you just quit your position and get away with it: No lawsuits, no trials, no punishment. Both the hospital and the government would stop doing anything about your crime at the moment you quit, and simply and purely because you quit.
Would that make any kind of sense? Obviously not.
Yet, incomprehensibly, that's exactly what's happening with the American police forces: There are myriads and myriads of examples of police officers committing crimes, abusing citizens, breaking the law, egregiously trampling on people's constitutional rights... all kinds of crimes... and getting away with it by just quitting. You can find tons and tons of examples of this, even news articles: Police officer commits crimes against the citizens they are tasked to protect, are found out, they quit, and that's it. No further actions by the police forces or the government.
Does that makes any kind of sense? Absolutely not.
But that's the American policing system for you.
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