Police Behaving Badly

[digitaldeath]

[neufox47]

Bootlickers censor.

[Benny Profane]

Never travel with cash.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ts-want-a-cut/

[digitaldeath]

tough guy cop looking for fights

stupid pig


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f9e_1435807136


i mean why they arresting him, the cop wanted a fistfight

[Bromontana]

Interim SLC chief putting a good message out. The city is trying to get out ahead of the nationwide reform, smart move by leadership.

http://www.sltrib.com/home/2714821-1...of-immigration

..Brown is following in the footsteps of former Chief Chris Burbank, a longtime national spokesman for keeping local police out of immigration enforcement[..]

Brown told the Latino civil-rights group, "Requiring police to enforce federal immigration law undermines the trust and cooperation of immigrant communities, which are essential elements of community oriented policing."

Because illegal immigration is a violation only of civil law, Brown said, "Immigration is not a criminal issue. Local police should no more enforce immigration law than it would enforce tax laws."

[frorider]

http://gawker.com/nypd-sergeant-accu...e-c-1716944572

[Harry]

http://gawker.com/nypd-sergeant-accu...e-c-1716944572

^^^ The comments in that article are funny as shit.

[TomCrac]

City fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings

Davis’s termination came less than two weeks after top IPRA officials, evaluating Davis’s job performance, accused him of “a clear bias against the police” and called him “the only supervisor at IPRA who resists making requested changes as directed by management in order to reflect the correct finding with respect to OIS,” as officer-involved shootings are known in the agency.

Since its 2007 creation, IPRA has investigated nearly 400 civilian shootings by police and found one to be unjustified.

Davis served in the police department for 23 years. As a commander, he headed detective units, the department’s Austin district and, finally, its public-housing unit. He retired from the department in 2004.


http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-...ootings-112423

[liv2ski]

^^^^If you don't tell us what we want to hear, your fired. So what is new about that? I read a quote the other day that went something like; "A man that always tells the truth has few friends" and I thought "no shit, no wonder I make people uncomfortable".

[booner]

[Url]http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/19/us/ap-us-island-county-jail-death.html?referrer=&_r=0[url]


One of my brother in law's best friends. Really fucked up situation.




Sent from the other side

[neufox47]

https://news.vice.com/article/was-sa...rce=vicenewsfb


Looks like the police edited the arrest video before releasing it.

https://news.vice.com/article/cincin...rce=vicenewsfb

And another shot while fleeing.

[Bromontana]

City fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings

Davis’s termination came less than two weeks after top IPRA officials, evaluating Davis’s job performance, accused him of “a clear bias against the police” and called him “the only supervisor at IPRA who resists making requested changes as directed by management in order to reflect the correct finding with respect to OIS,” as officer-involved shootings are known in the agency.

Since its 2007 creation, IPRA has investigated nearly 400 civilian shootings by police and found one to be unjustified.

Davis served in the police department for 23 years. As a commander, he headed detective units, the department’s Austin district and, finally, its public-housing unit. He retired from the department in 2004.


http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-...ootings-112423

Thoughts of the guy who was fired:

“They have shot people dead when they did not have to shoot,” Davis said about those officers. “They were not in reasonable fear for their lives. The evidence shows that the officer knew, or should have known, that the person who they shot was not armed or did not pose a threat to them or could have been apprehended by means short of deadly force.”

- Mr. Davis

Accomplishments and relevant experience:
*Masters in Criminal Justice
*Law Degree
*23yrs as Detective

So basically YEAH, wtf does HE know about policing???

[Bromontana]

https://news.vice.com/article/unarme...ississippi-cop

Last week in Stonewall, Mississippi, Sanders, a horse trainer, was reportedly riding one of his animals with a buggy near a gas station around 10PM, when there was an altercation between him and the police officer, who is white. According to some accounts, the officer had pulled over a driver and Sanders commented to Herrington, "Why don't you leave that man alone?"

The driver alleged that Herrington then said he was "going to get that nigger" before confronting Sanders.

"Then, Witness 1 saw officer Herrington's blue lights come on," said Lumumba. "Jonathan's horse reared up, startled, and knocked Jonathan off his horse. His light slipped around his neck. Jonathan ran to get the horse and Officer Herrington came from behind him, yanked him down to the ground in front of the house with the light strap and placed him in a chokehold. Jonathan didn't even see him.

[Alaskan Rover]

5 good reasons why body cameras may be a bad idea

http://truthvoice.com/2015/06/five-r...terrible-idea/

That article outlines the very slippery slope of arming police with what essentially ARE roving surveillance cameras. Add automatic dumping of the streaming feed into main police and FBI databases that use facial recognition software, and a "surrveilance state" is potentially heightened from what is already a highly surrveiled post-911 society. Weighing benefits of police body cams over deficits, I'd say NO THANKS to police body cams.. That so many Americans are calling for police body cams is actually quite scary and an instance of sheep not using their heads. Sad.

[digitaldeath]

That article outlines the very slippery slope of arming police with what essentially ARE roving surveillance cameras. Add automatic dumping of the streaming feed into main police and FBI databases that use facial recognition software, and a "surrveilance state" is potentially heightened from what is already a highly surrveiled post-911 society. Weighing benefits of police body cams over deficits, I'd say NO THANKS to police body cams.. That so many Americans are calling for police body cams is actually quite scary and an instance of sheep not using their heads. Sad.

govt needs to subsidize go-pro for the masses in the interest of national security while simultaneously boosting the economy through mandated commerce

yes i know, im an econ wizard

[Danno]

I just can't get over the video in the Sandra Bland arrest. How her being irritated at the traffic stop gave that cop justification to arrest her is beyond me. And then they say the arrest was because she assaulted him? Even though the assault, such as it existed, occurred AFTER he told her she was under arrest? And all the time, she is asking him if she is under arrest, and when he says yes, she asks what are the charges, and he says he'll tell her afterwards. And only after she's cuffed does she allegedly (it's off camera) do the things that led to the assault charge. And the she sits in jail on that bullshit charge for 3 fucking days?

I have no idea if her death was suicide or murder, but I do know she should not have been in jail for even 1 minute, and that officer is a POS who disgraces the badge he wears.

[neufox47]

I just can't get over the video in the Sandra Bland arrest. How her being irritated at the traffic stop gave that cop justification to arrest her is beyond me. And then they say the arrest was because she assaulted him? Even though the assault, such as it existed, occurred AFTER he told her she was under arrest? And all the time, she is asking him if she is under arrest, and when he says yes, she asks what are the charges, and he says he'll tell her afterwards. And only after she's cuffed does she allegedly (it's off camera) do the things that led to the assault charge. And the she sits in jail on that bullshit charge for 3 fucking days?

I have no idea if her death was suicide or murder, but I do know she should not have been in jail for even 1 minute, and that officer is a POS who disgraces the badge he wears.

Well said.

Was home in Wisconsin and the neighbor had a "We back the badge" sign in his yard. I had been seeing them around and asked,

"Hey, what's that sign mean?"

"It means I support the police."

"Does that mean unequivocally, like the cop who shot the guy in the back 7 times?"

He smirked and said "Yup, shouldna ran and he might be alive".

I have a feeling guys like this are good at making it on juries in police abuse cases.

[Bromontana]

I have a feeling guys like this are good at making it on juries in police abuse cases.

What juries? The system is so broken they're cleared of wrongdoing to prevent brass from answering tough questions on the local news.

https://www.acslaw.org/pdf/C21/Issue...20of%20Cop.pdf

Posted this before and wish more people would read it. Explains a lot of what's happened in the US. 4th amendment doesn't exist anymore for many in this country. This is the woman at the DOJ running some unit investigations.

This Issue Brief first sets out the law governing the enforcement of disorderly conduct
and similar statutes. It then explores the widespread and egregious violations of this law in some
law enforcement agencies and by some officers. The issue brief argues that the harm caused by
improper arrests and threats of arrest for disorderly conduct far outweighs the justification given
by some police and pundits for the aggressive (overly-aggressive, some would say) use of these
statutes. Finally, the Issue Brief offers a roadmap for legislators, advocates, law enforcement
officials, and others seeking to address this problem.

in relation to the woman above's circumstances:

There is widespread misunderstanding of police authority to arrest individuals who
passively or verbally defy them. There is abundant evidence that police overuse disorderly
conduct and similar statutes to arrest people who “disrespect” them or express disagreement with
their actions. These abusive arrests cause direct and significant harm to those arrested and, more
generally, undermine the appropriate balance between police authority and individual
prerogative to question the exercise of that authority.

The Supreme Court and numerous lower courts have recognized the potential for abuse
by law enforcement if arrests for disorderly and disrespectful speech are allowed. In Lewis v.
City of New Orleans, Justice Powell noted in a concurrence at least two forms of potential abuse.

First, an ordinance prohibiting obscene or opprobrious language directed towards a police officer
“confers on police a virtually unrestrained power to arrest and charge persons with a violation.”
He recognized that “[m]any arrests are made in „one-on-one‟ situations where the only witnesses
are the arresting officer and the person charged. All that is required for conviction is that the
court accept the testimony of the officer that obscene or opprobrious language had been used
toward him while in performance of his duties.”14

In other words, Justice Powell seems to be saying, even if we would rather people express their displeasure with police action with words that are neither obscene nor opprobrious, making it unlawful to do so in effect gives the police the ability to arrest anyone at anytime for a minor infraction with no evidence other than the officer‟s word.

Justice Powell noted a second problem with allowing arrests for obnoxious speech towards an officer: in arrests for “common street crimes (i.e., robbery, assault, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest), it is usually unnecessary that the person also be charged with the less serious offense of addressing obscene words to the officer. The present type of ordinance tends to be invoked only where there is no other valid basis for arresting an objectionable or suspicious person. The opportunity for abuse, especially where a statute has received a virtually open-ended interpretation, is self-evident.”

The concern Justice Powell expresses here is that especially where an officer cannot show that a person did something wrong, the officer might arrest the person for saying something wrong, simply because the officer believes person did something wrong or is just a bad person. Similarly, overly broad criminal statutes invite “harsh and discriminatory enforcement by local prosecuting officials, against particular groups deemed to merit their displeasure,”16 and criminal statutes based on the content of the speech facilitate “[t]he eternal temptation . . . to arrest the speaker rather than to correct the conditions about which he complains.”17

[Benny Profane]

Remember, kids, when taking a little too much acid at the next concert, don't fuck up and act "erratically", ok?

They hog tied a white boy this time.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0PV2HU20150721

[Harry]

What really gets me about the Sandra Bland arrest is that the underlying "traffic stop" is because she was being courteous to the cop and doing what she thought she was supposed to do. Cop drives up fast behind her and starts tailgating her. She moves over immediately to let him by thinking he is on his way to an emergency. BOOM: illegal lane change. Her very first sentence in the dash cam she says that's why she changed lanes.

[guroo270]

Fucking cops tailgating. They do it all the time, frequently when they are about to pull someone over, but they'll do it for a mile with no lights on. I swear if I ever have a chance to slam on my brakes while one is doing that I'll do my best to lock them up.

That said, as we know, not all cops are bad. I got pulled over at 3:30 AM going 66 in a 55, where during the day I feel like I'm gonna get run over going 65, but the guy let me off when everything checked out. Turned my interior lights on, license ready, hands on the wheel. I'm white, too, though.

[char]

It is also interesting that during that whole encounter with Bland that the cop escalated the event. He didn't need to ask her what was wrong, he could have just handed her the ticket and moved along. And then when she expressed her frustration he could have left it at that. Instead, escalation. Just had to remain the alpha, in control cop instead of handing over a ticket and going about his work.

This is a problem with most cops training as far as I can tell. Trained to escalate and remain in control instead of backing away from volatile situations.

[Kinnikinnick]

If there were justice in the world someone (not me thats for sure) would take that cop out. What a fucking asshole - there was zero reason to arrest that lady.

When will cops be held accountable for this type of bullshit? There should be a federal statute with life sentences for police misconduct resulting in death.

[digitaldeath]

Police are the praetorian guard, they serve the elite.

You never see cops pulling over high end lux cars. S550s and Audi 8s and the like

[old goat]

That article outlines the very slippery slope of arming police with what essentially ARE roving surveillance cameras. Add automatic dumping of the streaming feed into main police and FBI databases that use facial recognition software, and a "surrveilance state" is potentially heightened from what is already a highly surrveiled post-911 society. Weighing benefits of police body cams over deficits, I'd say NO THANKS to police body cams.. That so many Americans are calling for police body cams is actually quite scary and an instance of sheep not using their heads. Sad.

You must be white.