That doesn't seem like a reasonable response to me.
An employee was caught criminally stalking their family, and using the force of the government to do so.
Rather than being prosecuted, like happens outside the force, they were fired and let go to continue living their life - likely to be rehired in another police force if the pattern plays out as it regularly does.
That this can happen without large alarm bells, means that the checks on access are not effective - because it is not a once in a lifetime event.
I do see your trust. But I also see you yourself producing evidence suggesting such trust is unfounded.
> An employee was caught criminally stalking their family, and using the force of the government to do so.
So far he has not been caught criminally doing anything, because the system that found a brrach of process is not the system that determines criminality. Right now he has violated an internal process and been fired for that deriliction of duty.
> Rather than being prosecuted
He is very likely ALSO going to be prosecuted, since the system that found the violafion of the process also determined that such a violation is possibly illegal and activated the police. He is being investigated, and if they can prove anything criminal, he'll get convicted for that.
Obviously the bar for proving criminality is higher than the bar for dismissal.
> That this can happen without large alarm bells, means that the checks on access are not effective
This is exactly the debate that is happening right now because of this case. I'll end by quoting a professor that commented on this case recently:
"This should make us prioritize investing in security, investing in describing our processes and ways of working, such that you can find outliers. Maybe instead of investing in AI, which is fun to have but doesn't actually solve any of the serious problems"