“Were undermined public confidence and were extremely unprofessional.” Police officers lost their jobs because of Pokemon GO

Back in 2017, LAPD officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were fired from the authorities for ignoring a robbery report. For several years they continued to try to reinstate themselves in the service, but the higher court upheld the verdict.

On the day of the incident, Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell, sitting in their patrol car, reported by radio that a robbery had taken place at a Macy’s store, near where the police were parked. They did not answer the radio call and another police officer noticed their car driving away from the site of the robbery.

They were fired, and the court ruled that Lozano and Mitchell “undermined public confidence and were extremely unprofessional.” Thanks to the surveillance system in the patrol car, the Los Angeles police found out that the police ignored the information about the robbery, while continuing to discuss how to catch the Pokemon Snorlax in the AR game Pokemon GO.

“Were undermined public confidence and were extremely unprofessional.”  Police officers lost their jobs because of Pokemon GO

Lawyers for the two dismissed police officers tried to argue that the conversations they had in the patrol car were private and should not be used to prove their guilt, but the lower courts and the appellate court disagreed.

Released in 2016 and available on both the iOS App Store and Google Play Store, Pokemon GO continues to generate revenue for developer Niantic. The game has already grossed over $ 5 billion and has been installed over 1 billion times.

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