Police union loses bid to keep list of bad cops secret

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Police union loses bid to keep list of bad cops secret | Boing Boing

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[mr_raccoon]

It turns out if the cops dox the mayor’s daughter, he would end up being less likely being against the idea of the police being doxed because of it

[Papasan]

Blue lives matter… something … bullshit… something…

[krylonultraflat]

This is one tip (albeit the largest one) of the NYPD accountability iceberg.

• The Queens DA had an internal list of cops they didn’t trust
• The Q-Anon adjacent leader of the police union has finally been charged with official misconduct
• … but it probably doesn’t matter because de Blasio supports keeping the final say in police misconduct with the NYPD commissioner.
• Meanwhile the city has had to pay out a billion dollars in settlements over the last 5 years for NYPD misconduct.

All this blows my mind.

[smulder]

@beschizza

there was never much of a mask on “police violence is a state secret” to begin with, was there?

It wasn’t a secret, it just wasn’t part of the mainstream corporate narrative about the world

Police brutality used to get covered on the same sites as chemtrails and UFO’s

I mean, that’s kinda the Boing Boing legacy right there

[RandomDude]

Throw the bastards under the truck already and make this public.

I’m tired of the police hiding from accountability. Being a cop should not be a free pass from judgement, neither should POTUS

[Anyhoo]

@smulder

corporate narrative

Unfortunately this plays into the other corporate narrative that the ‘concept’ of unions is bad in and of itself.

By know way am I supporting this union with my comment.

[smulder]

There are other exceptions to who can unionize—and most of the workforce is at-will anyway

Supporting cop unions is not the One Weird Trick that will save the labor movement from extinction

[MemyselfandI]

Good God, I can’t imagine how many records there are during the Giuliani administration… There are either enough to make up a Mount Everest or there are none.

I remember reading during that time there was at least one full year of brutality reports that disappeared entirely from the Mayor’s office itself.

That was a dark time that so many NY’ers don’t even realize was absolutely terrible for anyone not white.