Story of two cops who investigated police corruption, were punished by their department for doing so and are now suing in federal court. A third cop has backed up their story.
After their investigation caught two corrupt cops, the plug was pulled before it could get too big.
They were transferred to dead end jobs and routinely called “IAD rats” by other cops.
The moral of the story? Cops careers are routinely ruined when they go against police corruption or excessive police brutality.
Apparently this has been an on-going story since 2012. The new bit of information in the original link was support of the federal lawsuit by Janet Hanna, a third officer.
From:
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The two officers, according to the lawsuit, discovered that colleagues on the police force were shaking down drug dealers and framing innocent people.
I clicked the link. It’s about how bad life can be for mentally ill people who make bad business decisions and strangle their girlfriends.
This guy got a huge settlement and managed to blow it all and end up in jail due to his violence and mental health issues. It’s a sad story, but I feel more guilty for his victims than I do for him.
In any case, it’s hardly the fault of the police or anyone else but himself.
I am normally one of the guys defending the cops…on this one, i got nothing…they had control of him, the hard takedown was totally unneeded. Short of the guy taking a good swing at one of the cops, total overkill. Just glad that Patel seems to be recovering from the articles I have read.
Hey SMAPTI, maybe you should jump in on this one. Or another asshat, we’ve got several to choose from.
sigh at this country. So much money. So much power. So much arrogance. So little willingness to admit that other countries might have better ways to handle some things, like policing.
The Guardian says Chicago police have a secret warehouse where arrestees are held off the books, denied access to lawyers, shackled, questioned for hours, and sometimes beaten. There’s been at least one death there.
The police are in the wrong on this one. They should absolutely not have the power to shut off their cameras, and if there’s an action that they’re afraid to conduct because they’re worried it’ll be filmed, then they shouldn’t do it at all.
Do you follow copblock on Facebook? That’s where I originally saw this.
And I’d bet anything, from watching that video, that the officer in the video slaps his family around like that too. It just came so naturally to him, like something he’d done a thousand times before, trained into him like throwing a ball is trained into major league pitchers. Lots of repetition.
The article said the officer who turned the camera off was disciplined. If that continues, and the punishments are severe enough, maybe they will be afraid to turn them off.
Yeah, shit like this is annoying as fuck and retards like you are why I quite facey-space a couple of years ago. My life has never been better now that I don’t have to see the droolings of idiotic morans like you anymore.