Police Behaving Badly

[1080Rider]

1080 - What you are not comprehending here is the relevance of statistics.

In theory, yes. But in reality police obstruct evidence, cut & paste audio/video to fit the narrative, and generally just don't act with transparency in matters involving dash/body-cams. Discretion is up to the chief, and corrupt chiefs continue to suppress video that implicates officers. Mayors, DAs and other high ranking officials as well. Regarding civilian video, fuck yes it makes a big difference. State controlled video? I don't think it's worth the fiscal outlay considering how it's manipulated.

What I'm telling you is that the criminal justice system is not so easy to analyze as to read about it in a magazine. Are you involved with the criminal justice system? Can you tell me how many bodycams you have looked at? Do you know how recently bodycams have become "the norm" for many police departments? Do you know how much it costs for a police force to buy bodycams and the hardware to keep that much data? Do you have explicit proof of officers manipulating reports or bodycams?

There is a shift towards transparency. Who do you think is doing this? In many instances its the police departments themselves. They don't want bad cops, they don't want a bad name, they don't want to be shot in dallas because some asshole in ohio killed a guy for no reason. In other cases its the city goverment that's tired of getting sued for cops being assholes.

Have cops killed people and gotten away with it, they must have based on the statistics. What do you want to do? Throw out our criminal justice system that has evolved over 200 years? Or keep the evolution process going in the right direction. I think it is going in the right direction... maybe not fast enough for your liking though.

[Dantheman]

That is not surprising, our country is really weird. I don't think we use "the beat" or "stop-and-frisk "as much out west. We don't in our city and I haven't seen much caselaw out of seattle on the subject. Back east, in the big cities, it is just the way they do business. I have very little experience with it and it seems super thuggish to me. Walking down the street and the brownshirts want to check your pockets? Seems shitty to me...

It is shitty, and it's daily reality for millions of people. It's pretty easy to understand why those people hate cops.

[stfu&gbtw]

This is the revolution I'm waiting for. I have no sympathy for people who hate Obama for being muslim, hate the senators and representatives they can't name, hate the local government they don't participate in, etc. But cops have become hired racist thugs who operate in a parallel universe in which the customer is always wrong. It's time we stop accepting that shit.

1080 - re: western instances of stop and frisk, walking the beat, etc - how do you explain this shit?

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/11/1165658...a-arrests-race

http://www.thecannabist.co/2015/03/2...rijuana/32083/

http://www.attn.com/stories/8232/bla...juana-colorado

[BmillsSkier]

Ugh, I think some of you are right - this powderkeg is going off.

Man angry about police shootings shoots at white people, cops, killing one woman in TN

[FLS]

Accountability. People want accountability with actual consequences.




From earlier this week.

Dude is already on the ground, shot twice, and then this:

[FLS]

Henderson Police Department promotes officer caught kicking man in head after traffic stop

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/la...-after-traffic

Watch for the gold@ 3:14 (unbelievable)

[digitaldeath]

I don't have anything more to say on this topic. Unsure if this thread is even of value.

I wonder if Alex Jones has any documents relevant to the discussion on Dallas mayhem

The police cannot maintain status quo

The military would destroy the status quo


Repealing all laws except for felonies would be great I believe

Maybe re education camps with altruistic intent would be beneficial

[MTT]

Watts 1965.

That's an interesting mention. My Uncle was a Los Angeles County Sheriff during the Watts Riots, I heard many interesting stories. (Lots of Ugly from both sides)

I think I will leave it at that.

[digitaldeath]

Henderson Police Department promotes officer caught kicking man in head after traffic stop

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/la...-after-traffic

Watch for the gold@ 3:14 (unbelievable)

what's the gold? They found some weed?

[muted]

Ugh, I think some of you are right - this powderkeg is going off.

Man angry about police shootings shoots at white people, cops, killing one woman in TN

BREAKING: Authorities: Man called 911 in south Georgia to report break-in, then ambushed, shot officer who came to investigate.

[BmillsSkier]

BREAKING: Authorities: Man called 911 in south Georgia to report break-in, then ambushed, shot officer who came to investigate.

Just heard about this on the radio. WTF people?

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/man-...icer/392375878

[1080Rider]

1080 - re: western instances of stop and frisk, walking the beat, etc - how do you explain this shit?

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/11/1165658...a-arrests-race

http://www.thecannabist.co/2015/03/2...rijuana/32083/

http://www.attn.com/stories/8232/bla...juana-colorado

I'm not being a dick, but these stories had no information about how people were being arrested (could only read 1st and 3rd). My guess... and it's only a guess because I have zero to go on, is that the minority kids are smoking in the park and the white kids are doing it at home or in their cars. Doing it out in the open is gonna get you caught.

[DeepHelmet]

This will be a turning point in the war on American citizens being waged by police across the country.

Time to wake up! You will not be allowed to continue to assassinate innocents, without repercussions.

Police tactics must change or this will get worse, much worse.

Also, isn't this pretty much the whole point if 2nd amendment? Protect against tyrannical government

Not sure what war you're referring to, but regardless, fuck you. Seriously, fuck you. You have no clue about what a tyrannical government is.

[GeezerSteve]

You're kidding, right? It's accepted history that the original purpose of criminalizing the use of marijuana (then known as "the Negro drug") was to give the cops an excuse to arrest black people.

[FLS]

what's the gold? They found some weed?

I think its medication.

I think I'm with you on bailing on this thread for a while.

[MTT]

You're kidding, right? It's accepted history that the original purpose of criminalizing the use of marijuana (then known as "the Negro drug") was to give the cops an excuse to arrest black people.

I keep waiting for it go there.

The MOTHERFUCKING WAR ON DRUGS

has nothing to do with public safety or drugs

[Gcooker]

Wow, tough to watch this stuff, as a Canadian and frequent visitor to America, this sucks.

[guroo270]

You're kidding, right? It's accepted history that the original purpose of criminalizing the use of marijuana (then known as "the Negro drug") was to give the cops an excuse to arrest black people.

Don't forget that a hit of crack is a felony while 2 ounces of blow is cool.

[MTT]

Don't forget that a hit of crack is a felony while 2 ounces of blow is cool.

??

[stfu&gbtw]

Not sure what war you're referring to, but regardless, fuck you. Seriously, fuck you. You have no clue about what a tyrannical government is.

Has almost nothing to do with the government. Has everything to do with a police force that has gone rogue. Stealing money from citizens who have not been charged with crimes. Harassing, assaulting, raping, and murdering citizens at will. And generally feeling like they have license to humiliate and intimidate the people they are charged with "protecting" and "serving". Turns out, the price of ensuring safety from imaginary criminals is enduring threat of harm from the real criminals - the ones who commit the crimes and don't go to jail. That's why the police hated the mob... They didn't like the competition.

[1080Rider]

You're kidding, right? It's accepted history that the original purpose of criminalizing the use of marijuana (then known as "the Negro drug") was to give the cops an excuse to arrest black people.

I've never heard this, a quick google showed as a way to control the mexican immigrants first and later adopted to keep an eye on black jazz musicians (and obviously expanded at some point)... thanks for pointing it out.

You're gonna hate this one big steve, another opinion I have as a libertarian is that every federal law should have a sunset clause. I think 10 years is beneficial, it allows EVERY law to be analyzed every 10 years to see if it is still necessary. This is a great example of one that would probably have been struck down (maybe not though since it's been around since the 30's).

[guroo270]

??

"Crack cocaine sentencing presents a particularly egregious case. Since the 1980s, federal penalties for crack were 100 times harsher than those for powder cocaine, with African Americans disproportionately sentenced to much lengthier terms. But, in 2010, DPA played a key role in reducing the crack/powder sentencing disparity from 100:1 to 18:1, and we are committed to passing legislation that would eliminate the disparity entirely.
The life-long penalties and exclusions that follow a drug conviction have created a permanent second-class status for millions of Americans, who may be prohibited from voting, being licensed, accessing public assistance and any number of other activities and opportunities. The drug war’s racist enforcement means that all of these exclusions fall more heavily on people and communities of color. DPA is committed to ending these highly discriminatory policies and to combating the stigma attached to drug use and drug convictions."

[stfu&gbtw]

I've never heard this, a quick google showed as a way to control the mexican immigrants first and later adopted to keep an eye on black jazz musicians (and obviously expanded at some point)... thanks for pointing it out.

You're gonna hate this one big steve, another opinion I have as a libertarian is that every federal law should have a sunset clause. I think 10 years is beneficial, it allows EVERY law to be analyzed every 10 years to see if it is still necessary. This is a great example of one that would probably have been struck down (maybe not though since it's been around since the 30's).

Keep reading... prior to several years into the medical marijuana movement, every time it came up for discussion, anti-drug legislation was strengthened and expanded. Funding increased, law enforcement increased, penalties got harsher, and more people went to prison. So many in fact that it spawned incredible growth in the private prison industry, just so we'd have a place to lock up all those dangerous negros and spics we kept protecting and serving.

So take your "if our laws had sunset clauses, none of this would have happened" pipe dream and jam it in your rear end.

[adrenalated]

Nixon's domestic-policy adviser, John Ehrlichman, in an interview published posthumously in Harper's this year, revealed the true aim of the Drug War was to criminalize the administration's "two enemies: the anti-war left and black people." As Ehrlichman explained, "We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...#ixzz4DqzWY4l0

[MTT]

"Crack cocaine sentencing presents a particularly egregious case. Since the 1980s, federal penalties for crack were 100 times harsher than those for powder cocaine, with African Americans disproportionately sentenced to much lengthier terms. But, in 2010, DPA played a key role in reducing the crack/powder sentencing disparity from 100:1 to 18:1, and we are committed to passing legislation that would eliminate the disparity entirely.
The life-long penalties and exclusions that follow a drug conviction have created a permanent second-class status for millions of Americans, who may be prohibited from voting, being licensed, accessing public assistance and any number of other activities and opportunities. The drug war’s racist enforcement means that all of these exclusions fall more heavily on people and communities of color. DPA is committed to ending these highly discriminatory policies and to combating the stigma attached to drug use and drug convictions."

Thanks, I know. I get it.

I am in a box that prevents me from being candid as to what I really know.

We as a (FREE SOCIETY) Need to start talking about this shit