One city down, thousands more to go…
At a news conference in Louisville, Attorney General Merrick Garland called the misconduct “heartbreaking” and said it “erodes the community trust that is needed for effective community policing.”
If nothing else, he’s great at understatement. Rather than take two years to figure out how badly cops are behaving, maybe we reallocate their funding to the community and find out how much better it does at policing itself.
There definitely has to be some kind of painful financial penalty beyond “taxpayers eat the lawsuit settlement bill.”
It would also be great if they could bring charges sooner in cases like this:
… we must be checking reddit at the same time
Did we miss this one from a year ago?
The ultimate in civil forfeiture “legal” police banditry by the San Bernardino County sheriff. None of that petty seizing of a few thousand dollars from passing cars, and the cash having to prove that it’s innocent (which usually has more legal costs than the cash). Nope, they were robbing armored cars loaded with money.
Sadly, it looks like it was resolved without slinging the whole sheriff’s department in jail.
Do I really need to do a search to see if he’s a “constitutional” sheriff?
Wtaf. I mean, this is fscking insane.
During the encounter, the teen remained prone and pleaded, “OK! OkK Help! Get the dog, please!” the report stated, as officers continued to stand over him and shout orders for about 30 seconds “while the dog gnawed on his arm.”
“At one point, an officer shouted, ‘Stop fighting my dog!’ despite video showing the teen lying still with one arm behind his back and the other arm in the dog’s mouth,” according to the report.
I hadn’t heard this story, it’s about a junk science system where 911 calls are analyzed by a spurious criteria to determine guilt of the speaker. People have been wrongly convicted using this method, developed by a police chief with no science background.
What a shitheel! It’s so dangerous when junk science get embedded and not questioned.
Like this guy, who pulled magic messages out of Al Jazeera broadcasts:
More projection on display, because cops have very little interest in the truth. Their main concerns are easy case closures and convictions. What we need is a way to hold them accountable for all the documented cases in which they are guilty - of lying and worse. They are supposedly allowed to lie to suspects to get them to confess (something that needs to die in a fire because no matter how they get the confession, once given it cannot be recanted). However, cops also lie in court but rarely get convicted of perjury. Instead, cases get overturned after their victims have had to deal with the consequences of police misconduct, assuming it’s the kind of misconduct that leaves any survivors.
SSDD. Rural sheriff: “I am the Law!”
OK. That arresting officer might be a good cop. At least for that stop.
