Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

I did not believe that was a serious tweet at first

I think he missed, oh, several hundred similar videos over the past few months.

sad lol

Yeah, but this one was, like, different for some reason. Sure, there were reports that he was armed and had weapons in the house and was maybe loading a weapon and probably was beating his wife, but other than that, he looked like he just wanted to party down.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/police-officers-qanon/

Cops being the most paranoid, credulous, and yet entitled group means that they can go hog-wild into Qanon and also kill you

This story regarding the Breonna Taylor grand jury is pretty nuts:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/us/breonna-taylor-grand-juror/index.html

Basically, one of the members of the grand jury retained an attorney and filed a motion to have the grand jury transcript/recordings released to the public. That is unprecedented afaik. The implication is that what the KYAG has been stating was presented to the grand jury was not accurate.

thanks for posting, I saw that, hope it works

At one point on the first day of grand jury deliberations, one of the prosecutors laments to the jurors that they can’t play all the body cam videos because of time. A juror responds loudly: “We got time!”

— Roberto Aram Ferdman (@robferdman) October 2, 2020

The timing of this sucks, because it is getting swept away by Trump's positive covid test. Preliminary reports sound like the prosecutors just threw some shit in front of the jury and said, "What do you think?", which afaik is not how these things usually work.

Full statement from Alameda DA Nancy O’Malley on reopening investigation of 2009 killing of Oscar Grant by BART PD: pic.twitter.com/F8KlfmoXnb

— David DeBolt (@daviddebolt) October 5, 2020

wow. bout time.

Sheriff connected to 2 members of the terrorist group that planned to kidnap governor. Defends them.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/10/10/michigan-sheriff-spotted-at-rally-with-men-charged-in-scheme-to-kidnap-kill-governor/

Sherriff should be arrested. "hey we didn't know if they were going to kidnap the governor or just make a totally valid citizens arrest?" Is that really his argument?

I had not heard about this: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/us/galveston-horseback-arrest-lawsuit-trnd/index.html

jfc, that's joe arpaio level

Looks like Philly PD smashed the windows of a passing vehicle that was trying to turn around, then dragged the parents out and beat them on the ground in front of their terrified children. [@MrCheckpoint] pic.twitter.com/dNBf0aLGAf

— Chad Loder (@chadloder) October 28, 2020

That's a five minute walk from my house.

Seriously, just one good cop. Just aaaaaaaany minute now.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/30/philadelphia-fop-posts-toddler/

the latest is Kevin Peterson Jr.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/30/kevin-peterson-police-shooting-washington-hazel-dell

1312

16,425

(that's the number of reported cases of murder in the United States in the year 2019. I just like numbers)

wow all those murders with all those cops on the force? kinda seems like theyre not doing a great job of deterring crimes.

without the police, there would have been 2.23 billion murders

whoa that's a lot of murders!

In 2019, there were 697,195 full-time law enforcement officers employed in the United States.

"Wawaweewah!" - Borat Sagdivey, referring to the very nice number of law enforcement officers employed in the United States relative to the number of actual murders and prospective murders by which people may compare and contrast and draw conclusions! :)

393,347,000 - estimated number of civilian firearms in the United States

2,230,015,245 murders

that's the number of prevented murders + actual murders every year in the united states

3.5 years

that's how long the humanity would survive, if the U.S. police weren't out there preventing billions of murders each year

no one knows about this one because this murder was declared a Perfectly Executed Murder claiming the Self-Defense Exemption by the Police Department. it's cool though, the candle & flower memorial is still a block from my office and I walk past it several times a week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-bU9NjCvs

but did the cop who shot him mock the memorial on his instagram afterwards? they're still investigating

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-09-28/sdpd-investigates-claims-that-officers-social-media-post-made-light-of-memorial-for-man-he-fatally-shot

all cops and non-cop murders are bastard people + all other non-violent bastard people who are still, like, maintaining a social order of murder culture and shit

J.B.A.K.H.T.B.I.O.Y.H. (that means "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris The Blood Is On Your Hands" which I just made up and think sounds p kewl)

are you?

☐ FOR ALL POLICES or
☑ AGIANST ALL POLICES

Rock. The. Vote.™

memorial for a guy for whom we're still trying to determine whether or not it's ok to be mad at the cops who killed him

correct me if that's grammatically incorrect

https://i.imgur.com/EvC7XjP.jpg

do you think this human interest story is?

☐ TRAGICALLY INTERESTING or
☑ TRAGICALLY NOT REALLY THAT INTERESTING BUT THAT PICTURE SURE IS INTERESTING

"There are good cops"

https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article246849952.html

Gov. Andy Beshear and others reacted with outrage Friday after learning Kentucky State Police training materials used quotes from Adolph Hitler and advised trainees to become “the ruthless killer.”

The story was initially reported by two student journalists at duPont Manual High School in Louisville and published online by the school’s newspaper, the Manual RedEye.

The presentation used in the past was immediately denounced by some for emphasizing violence from police rather than minimizing force and reducing conflict.

The slideshow titled “The Warrior Mindset” includes a quote from Hitler’s Mein Kampf: “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”

“It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge,” states another quote attributed to Hitler in the PowerPoint presentation, which the student newspaper posted online.

if there were some Good Cops I feel like there have been ample opportunities to flex recently

"if we're such bad cops, then why won't you admit we're not?"

do ACAB people think it is Good or Bad for cops to wear bodycams?

So they can turn them off, find them faulty, or manipulate them to fit a narrative?

is manipulating things to fit a narrative Bad or Good?

burrito what is going on

basically I see them as a distraction, though they could turn out to be worse than that

Research on the impacts that body-worn cameras have on policing is mixed. Some studies have found that cops who wear them are less likely to use force or be the subject of civilian complaints. But a 2017 randomized control trial that included over 2,000 police officers in Washington, DC, found that the effect of body cams was too small to be statistically significant: Officers who wore the cameras used force and received complaints at about the same rate as their colleagues who didn’t. A 2016 analysis of 10 previous studies of body cameras also found that they had “no discernible effect” on the use of force, and actually increased the likelihood of an officer being assaulted.

That’s reflected in the experience of some law enforcement officials themselves. “You forget about the body camera pretty quickly,” says Betsy Smith, a retired police sergeant with almost 30 years of experience. “It doesn’t change our behavior, because most cops are just going out there and doing their job. If people think, Let’s get these cops body cameras to change their behavior, I think that’s really naive, and frankly it’s kind of insulting to law enforcement.” But Smith isn’t opposed to body cameras. She says she’s in favor of equipping every police officer in the country with one, but not necessarily because filming cops keeps them accountable.

By design, body-worn cameras point outwards into the world, often aiding police officers in monitoring communities, rather than helping communities watch police. And surveillance technology is only growing more sophisticated: At least one body cam manufacturer has pitched adding live facial recognition as a feature to police departments, OneZero reported earlier this year.

https://www.wired.com/story/body-cameras-stopped-police-brutality-george-floyd/

there are good reasons they fell out of favor as a demand quite a while ago

burrito what is going on

nothing much, just chattin about police, trying to figure out whether or not they're all bad or all good

with maaaybe a little performative virtual signaling thrown in to keep things spicy

that's virtual signaling, not virtue signaling btw - I mean literally demonstrating an awareness of the message board environment

cops teargas marchers, kids in garner, north carolina

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article246861942.html

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice laid out nine ways in which Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson and his deputies violated people’s constitutional rights in the county, through “a pattern or practice of discriminatory policing.”

The DOJ, under the Obama administration, filed a lawsuit over the accusations, but a Republican-appointed federal judge threw out the suit. The DOJ appealed, then agreed to drop its legal threats in exchange for Johnson agreeing to actions including “bias-free policing” training for his deputies.

Johnson since been re-elected sheriff twice, in 2014 and 2018. Both times, no one ran against him.