This is horrifying.
She should have to spend some time with these kids. Then spend some years in prison.
Except for the fact that they had committed criminal acts before, which is why they got fired from from police forces. If history teaches us anything, it’s that you have to fuck up really really bad to be fired from a police force.
Deputy indicted on assault charge after face-slapping incident
Shoddy science, bad procedures, faked calibrations, black box software, disabled safety features, and tens of thousands of questionable convictions.
I mean, fuck drunk drivers, right? But make sure they’re actually intoxicated.
Because if they throw the contractor under the bus then (a) they’ll be admitting they chose wrong, and (b) now both the injured party AND the contractor will sue them, one for beimg ultimately responsible, the other for the underbusing.
Officer found guilty of 2nd degree murder in shooting of suicidal man holding lighter fluid and lighter.
Courtesy of Lowering the Bar, but I’ll also link to the less-snarky Chicago Tribune story: Back in 2015 (a recently filed lawsuit alleges) the Chicago Police Department conducted a no-knock raid on a family home, complete with the usual accoutrements of no-knock raids (kicked-in doors, “flashbang” grenades, Scary Black Rifles pointed at people, and so on). Now, in this case, they didn’t even kill any members of the (of course) African-American family living at this house (which included three boys, then-ages 11, 6, and 4, and their mom); they didn’t shoot anybody; they didn’t even shoot the family dog. The only problem with this particular no-knock raid was that the guy they were looking for didn’t live there. He had lived there, but had moved away in 2009.
That is, the guy they were looking for had “moved” involuntarily, to the Hill Correctional Center in Galesburg, Illinois, where he is expected to remain until 2029. :smack:
The entire thing was, also of course, over drugs.
So, some really heads-up detective work there from Chicago’s finest, but, again, they didn’t even shoot anybody, so the whole incident barely even qualifies for this thread.
California’s Criminal Cops: Who they are, what they did, why some are still working
And it’s not like California Law Enforcement is hurting applicants. Cops in Ca, especially the big cities, get paid pretty well.
Dallas Transit Agency Pays $345,000 to Settle Lawsuit by Photographer Arrested for Taking Pictures
Emphasis mine.
So, one of this cop’s colleagues recognized that the cop was out of line, but rather than actually attempt to correct the situation, he just lets the cop violate the civilian’s civil rights because he’s “not getting involved in that.”
This should qualify as dereliction of duty.
There’s an in-depth follow up to the article Typo Negative linked to. Today’s article focuses on the Central Valley town of McFarland, and how several of their chiefs are also tainted.
Scariest quotes:
And when one chief in another city realized many of the officers he fired were all ending up in McFarland, he reported it to the state oversight agency. The response?
As of 2010, 91% of the population of McFarland was Hispanic. I doubt very seriously that many of those police hires were Hispanic.
This is off-topic because it is between two cops (do we have a thread for this?). A small town police chief and detective in his department go to a law enforcement conference on handling death scene investigations. The detective kills the police chief while there:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/officer-accused-of-killing-oklahoma-police-chief-in-florida/ar-BBWB0Jd
I don’t know but this may be going a bit too far to get some practical experience with this issue…
I hate to say it, but I think they are being hired because of a …moral flexibility. They may be willing to do things that are a bit out-of-bounds, ethically. 'Cause ethically, they’re kinda shaky.
As I said before, CA Law Enforcement does not want for applicants. McFarland and several other cities could field entire departments from last years LAPD Academy wash-outs.
We’ve talked on quite a few occasions about civil asset forfeiture in this thread, and about how it’s often used in incredibly unjust ways by law enforcement.
Check out this video posted by the FBI. They are literally trying to convince us that civil asset forfeiture saves puppies’ lives.
You don’t want the puppies to die, do you?
Disturbing video shows police officer tackling a 15-year-old who has no arms or legs
Because. Umm. Reasons!
“I thought he was armed”
I hope you know I feel disgusted at myself for laughing at that.
So the people who had the dogs were just going along their way when the fuzz stopped them, took their dogs, told them that they had to prove that the dogs were not involved in any crime and then never charged those people with anything? I mean, like most of the forfeiture cases we hear about?
I tried to think of a comeback, but I’m stumped.
Don’t trust the video, it doesn’t show you everything. Like the way the suspect moved his eyelids in threatening fashion.
No arms, no legs, no parents, and he has to deal with Officer Friendly. 