Seems about right.
Because of course it’s fucking Aurora.
Take heart, Americans, you are not alone in having terrible police.
(Also, note, the headline only scratches the surface on the report’s findings; there are horrors galore in the body of the article. So click with caution if you cannot handle victimized children, especially when it’s clear they’ve been abandoned to their fates by the authorities who were supposed to protect them.)
I’m assuming the “Met officers” here are from London?
Yes. This doesn’t seem like it would fall under their national responsibilities. Their local policing role is restricted to London.
Policing jurisdiction in the UK is complicated. In some way the Met acts as local police in London, the equivalent of the FBI in other parts of Britain/UK/England & Wales.
Sort of.
So where does Scotland yard fit in?
I think Met and Scotland Yard are synonymous. Or rather Scotland Yard is a metonym for the Metropolitan Police. Like Pentagon for the US Dept of Defense.
Officially, Scotland Yard (more technically New Scotland Yard) is the name of the building where the Met are headquartered. Hence the nickname.
So yeah, the Pentagon is a good comparison.
This is the opposite of what’s normally posted in this thread. I couldn’t find the full video on youtube, only a shorter version from the news, so here’s the video on facebook. You shouldn’t need an account to watch it.
In Okaloosa County Florida, officers were dealing with a domestic disturbace situation. They had handcuffed and searched the man and placed him in the back of their patrol car.
Deputy Hernandez was approaching the passenger side rear door of his patrol car to do a secondary search of Jackson when he heard a pop sound which he perceived to be a gunshot and believed he had been hit," the release states. "He began yelling ‘shots fired’ multiple times, falling to the ground and rolling. He fired into the patrol car.
Once Hernandez started shooting, his partner followed suit. Turns out the Deputy had not been hit, or even fired upon. What set off the incident? An acorn had fallen from a tree and hit his patrol car.
The Massachusetts State Police are caught up in yet another scandal (following recent scandals of lying about overtime for years, and taking straight up bribes to issue CDL licenses). This time, they were caught making secret recordings of drug busts, and not turning them over to prosecutors or defense attorneys. This has potentially jeopardized dozens of drug convictions. It was also, in many cases, a violation of the wiretapping law. In any normal profession, heads would roll for gross negligence (at best) like this. The officers involved are likely to skate though, because according to the officers, they weren’t properly trained not to violate the law and basic rules of criminal procedure.
From a sergeant with 25 years on the force: “To be honest with you, your honor, I don’t know if it’s specifically written in the policy. I’m not too good with policy and procedure,” Desfosses replied. “But I believe that there would be something that — yes, troopers are required to turn over evidence to the district attorney’s office, yes.”
Golly gee wiz, Mr. Judge sir, I’m not too good with them papers and rules.
Remember this when the local cops (on this board) and their supporters say that they live and die by policies and procedures not the niceties of the actual law and constitution.
The Blue Line of Terror protects them from all accountability as long as enough of the population is either enthusiastically in favor of police impunity or cowed into submission.
Over in SGNotD, it was suggested that the officer may have acquired some measure of post-traumatic stress disorder from a couple of duty tours overseas. Sounds to me like, maybe this is an extreme position, like we should have a policy that prohibits any person leaving the military from being employed in LE (including private security) for at least a decade.
Yes, that is a bit extreme. PTSD screening, though…
But a vet who never got deployed anywhere hot should be no more problematic than a random person off the street.
Military training instills an attitude that is inappropriate for LE. Even if you never saw combat, the mindset is still wrong.
Their language also reflects this: notice how they refer to you and me as “civilians.” I cringe every time I hear that.
The truth is that LEOs are also civilians. The term “civilian” should only be used by active duty military. (Which explains why they use the term: they think they’re in the military. And guess who they think they’re at war with?)
You wish cops had the strict rules of engagement that soldiers have to follow. During CHAZ/CHOP on Capitol Hill in Seattle, volunteers who were medical professionals wore their scrubs while they attended to injured protesters. The cops shot them with non-lethal rounds.
Update:
" “And when the trial was over and it was time for him to render his verdict, he read verbatim from that paper, even flipping pages, and we could tell he didn’t write that because he couldn’t pronounce some of the words in the verdict,” Jefferson [told] Mississippi Public Broadcasting."
That definitely needs some looking into.
GA police officer made numerious DUI arrests despite evidence they were not drunk.