Police who kill often receive lenient or no punishments. Derek Chauvin could be the exception.
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On average, those officers have received far less prison time at sentencing than their civilian counterparts.Chauvin is among only 11 nonfederal law enforcement officers convicted of murder resulting from an on-duty incident since 2005, according to Philip Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who tracks police prosecutions.The average punishment for the nine who have been sentenced so far is 21.7 years in prison, he said, with 81 months as the shortest sentence and life in prison as the longest.Civilians convicted of murder, on the other hand, received an average sentence of 48.8 years in prison in 2018, according to a report released in March by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics.Stinson said he expects Chauvin will receive a lengthy prison term.The "shocking nature" of the cellphone video recording of Floyd's arrest and death, as well as "the flat eye effect of Chauvin's face as he slowly killed a man" separates this case from others of people killed by police, he said.The prosecution has asked that Chauvin be sentenced to 30 years.
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