Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

Nobody hates a bad cop worse than a good cop. Bad cops make every cop's job a lot harder. I mean if your stance is "no, every police officer's job is fundamentally to maintain and enforce white supremacy" then I guess we're talking past each other, but that's not my stance.

Nobody hates a bad cop worse than a good cop.

this is false, as any cursory examination of what happens to police whistleblowers will tell you

Or, there are fuckton of bad cops out there

(My dad's cousin was a police officer who was almost murdered by his partner because he wouldn't put up with cop shit)
("almost murdered" may be hyperbole but that's how he tells the story)

yeah if anything the dynamic cited just underscores how rare good cops are

It was great, at last weekend's National Trans Visibility March in Washington DC, to see all the police that were assigned for security and route control there getting all gasfaced when several speakers said, "Never forget, the police are not our friends, they don't care about crimes against transwomen and they aren't here to protect us."

even if they go in good, the culture tends to squeeze them out or enforce silence early

From what I can tell the police situation in Portland is getting increasingly critical. They're having an extremely difficult time finding people. They're trying lowering their standards, because that's certainly going to help things. They're also spending a lot of money on a media campaign to try and improve their public image, presumably under the assumption that if we just UNDERSTOOD them a little bit better we'd trust them. Not sure where they're getting the money for that from. In the meantime, mandatory overtime for everybody! Which, again, is certainly going to help things.

Last time the city needed to negotiate with the police they brought in a firm that specialized in union-busting. Caused a little bit of a kerfluffle, because people out here believe it's important to support unions. If I make an exception to that for anybody, it'd be for the police union.

Me, I live out in a suburb. Nice quiet working class suburb, or was until a bunch of liberal elites moved in and started queering the place up. Lot of pickup trucks. At least a couple of those openly fascist police American flags (wonder if any of the high-priced public image consultants they've talked to have had any feedback on those). I don't go for walks in my neighborhood anymore.

Joshua Brown, an essential witness in the #AmberGuyger murder trial, was reportedly killed Friday night in Dallas, Texas.

This comes just days after the former police officer was found guilty of murdering #BothamJean: https://t.co/OzdeJrBR9l pic.twitter.com/nn1JonxKUt

— Complex (@Complex) October 5, 2019

Christ

dallas police claiming that three suspects drove four hours from louisiana to buy weed from brown

Disarm the police

Heard this on the radio today. Apparently a welfare check from a neighbor's phone call because her door was open turned into the cop shooting her.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/10/12/fort-worth-police-officer-shoots-kills-woman-inside-her-own-home/

The officers found a firearm when they entered the room, the department's statement said.

So?

So fucking disgusting.

The bodycam video is completely nuts.

He has now been arrested for murder

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/14/fort-worth-officer-who-fatally-shot-atatiana-jefferson-has-resigned-chief-says/

http://gothamist.com/news/video-shows-nypd-officer-awkwardly-tossing-weed-into-brooklyn-mans-car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgNlDA8BuUk

speaking as a cop,

https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/4-investigates-farmington-police-officer-resigns-amid-accusations-of-excessive-force-on-11-year-old-student/5529724/

'she was stronger than me'

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-25/costco-shooting-lapd-officer-wont-will-face-charges-in-killing-of-intellectually-disabled-man

Not clear if he’s coming back on duty but grand juries will not charge cops with anything and that’s a problem.

Tasering? Really? What a disaster this policy is. https://t.co/1HwIjuIgkF

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) October 29, 2019

jesus, tasered for fare evasion is fucked.
daily reminder to hold the exit door and swipe anyone who looks like they need it as you leave if you have a monthly

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-general-manager-apologizes-to-man-cited-for-14826101.php?

Transit cops restrain and handcuff a black dude for eating a sandwich. Transit manager apologies, one of the Transit board members participates in a demonstration against this action, Cop Union Rep says, actually, nah, not sorry.

police unions = the worst unions

well, they're good for their members ... like, they will stand by you if you kill someone because you are stupid, scared and racist! Also, cops tend to have really impressive pension benefits ... that are at risk for bankrupting the cities where they brutalize people, but hey, not a bad deal for the cops.

Y'ever notice these minor, pedantic rules that white folks routinely flout get treated like serious crimes when minorities get arrested for them?

"He was told no eating on the platform, he got what was coming to em!"

Also the belligerence excuse.

Last i looked, cussing someone out isn't illegal

I've been arguing about this on fb w/people taking the cop's side ... one of whom brought up the fact that the guy used the homophobic "f-word" as why the guy "deserved" it. And to me, it reinforces the bullying aggro bro aspect of police, where it's mostly about asserting authority and power, and, not to defend the use of that word, but, I feel like his use of it, towards the cop, was basically acknowledging that the cop's behavior wasn't about "safety" or "compliance" but about asserting power and was retribution for "not doing what I told you to do" and being aggressively masculine.

asserting authority and power,

this is every cop's raison d'etre - if you don't cower before the badge they will look for some pretext that allows them to assert that authority and *make* you cower

issuing a citation is basically the bureaucratic symbol for "I'm a cop, suck my dick"

Compare with “transport in London is shit” where a woman called another woman disgusting for eating hard boiled eggs on the tube, which is apparently newsworthy over there

tbf, that is disgusting behavior

xp the first woman was fined £1500 and presumably has a criminal record now tbf

The ‘he was asking for it, he was eating a sandwich’ thing contrasted with the bristling over smoking laws etc. is a nice illustration of conservative politics where there “must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect...”

I mean fuck, the Bundy clan

Maybe that comma wasn't necessary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11jrByA6m0c

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/11/14/mta-will-spend-249m-on-new-cops-to-save-200m-on-fare-evasion/

If only civilians shot by police got such kid-gloves in the press:

https://ktla.com/2019/12/03/body-cam-video-apparently-shows-lapd-officer-inappropriately-touching-dead-womans-breasts/

PG county cop charged with second-degree murder after shooting a guy whose arms were cuffed behind his back seven times

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/prince-george-police-shooting/2020/01/28/47359178-41e2-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html

7 times.

all I know about PG county is from dialog from The Wire :(

It plays a big role in Between the World and Me as well.

It’s where I live and work. Also a much different place than it was 20 years ago.

https://6abc.com/5889807/

This is going on where I live. The school board member expressed concern that armed cops stationed in schools would end up shooting children of color and the Blue Lives Matter folks are calling for her head.

Blue lives are the biggest snowflakes. Fuck's sake.

"There are instances and the data supports some of this stuff that they were suggesting about African American males being more likely to be shot by police," said Chief Molloy, "but saying those statements without any data, without any context, does not lend itself to a fruitful exchange of ideas that will bring us together."

Translation: The facts hurt my feelings!!

there are data to support this, but mentioning said data, without mentioning the data, does not lend itself to wlczvnzxcvjhasd;gfas;djfasdasss

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Vallejo-cop-wanted-to-educate-a-bicyclist-13830311.php

no charges against the cop

BREAKING: Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams will not file charges against Vallejo Police Officer Ryan McMahon for the February 2018 shooting death of Ronell Foster. https://t.co/7xrrh8paNc

— Open Vallejo (@OpenVallejo) January 31, 2020