Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=UYjof4V7MyY

thinking maybe she doesn't need any more coffee

lmaoooo

La Lechera: Amber Guyger was found guilty and is currently serving a 10-year murder sentence. I feel that is an inadequate apology but it’s a start.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/new-video-manuel-ellis-chokehold-tacoma-police/281-033c2da5-2189-4b1a-b9c9-f6c544ad3015

https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2020/06/mentally-ill-man-spent-nearly-5-months-in-jail-before-body-cam-video-revealed-garfield-heights-officers-beat-tased-and-mocked-him.html

what kills me about the “bad apple” argument is that the full expression it comes from literally says that it’s never just one, that in fact it is the whole goddamn bunch!!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/us/rayshard-brooks-atlanta-shooting-wednesday/index.html

FELONY MURDER!

UPDATE: OFFICER EGG MCMUFFIN WAS STEALING COP VALOR pic.twitter.com/p4tXzhoWDR

— Anansi Pelosi (@Eugene_V_Dabbs) June 17, 2020

Lol I was just about to post this

Also 👍🏾 on the felony murder charges

Absent these things not happening, the people who do them should be held accountable

Maybe I'm naive, but I think it's a fairly big deal that they charged the non-shooting officer and he turned state's witness. Obviously waaaaaaaay more pressure needs to be put on, but maybe it's a sign of some faint cracks in the thin blue wall.

I just got off a fundraiser Q&A Zoom call for a college classmate who is running for Manhattan DA and I think if he wins, he will do incredible things for the city; his parents were social workers and a core tenet of his platform involves his office declining to prosecute people for things like drug possession and removing police officers from schools so kids don't end up in jail for acting like kids; he also is very much into defunding the police and reallocating resources to professionals more suited to dealing with (for example) issues caused by homelessness and mental illness. Kind of make me wish I lived in Manhattan so I could vote for him.

DJP, let me know who he is so I can donate.

Actually, I think I got it.

is there a rich white manhattaner I could somehow pay to possess

I'd probably choose trump

and maybe do more with it than voting for DA

Seeing reports that a bunch of Atlanta cops are planning a #blueflu strike/walkout because of the charges, threatening that there'll be "no protection!".

What bunch of tittybaby assholes.

I always wondered--if something like that happened in a major city--how much of the actual crime perpetrated afterwards would carried out by cops.

while the cops aren't working, they'll be out committing violent crimes to prove we need cops

in other words, business as usual

BREAKING: Reports that *every* #Atlanta police officer has refused to work their shift tonight. Mayor has requested aid from surrounding jurisdictions. Every neighboring department has explicitly stated they will *not* cover for Atlanta.

— Timothy Peterson (@nsquaredcrypto) June 18, 2020

Note the username is “nsquaredcrypto” so take that with a big pinch of salt

and 0.04nsq

wouldn't this be an opportune time to... attack the police stations, since they won't be at the precincts
not that i'm condoning it, NSA watchers!

PBKR: it’s Alvin Bragg

XP OCCUPY POLICE STATIONS

PBKR: it’s Alvin Bragg

That’s what I thought. Donation on the way even though we’re just outside the city and can’t vote.

I don't think "every" Atlanta police officer has called out but it sounds like a lot of them have.

my ex just posted supporting the cop in the McDonald's video.

who the fuck are these people that have never had wrong/delayed McDonald's meals? McDonald's know they're bad, they were one of the first to roll out the "we don't have yr fries ready" spaces.

People who see all the COPS POISONED BY FAST FOOD THUGS stories and somehow miss the "jk shake was fine they were just lactose intolerant"

a friend who is married to a cop repeated the "oh gee what a coincidence, just the three cops were sick", and didn't register that if the culprit truly was residue from cleaning product that wasn't properly removed, and the three cops came in at the same time, obviously all three would get sick. be different if they came in individually, hours apart

hey we can't all have our DETECTIVE SHIELDS like a couplea SUITS, some of us have to take our CHANCES on the STREETS, but you wouldn't KNOW about that, WOULD you

Maybe I'm naive, but I think it's a fairly big deal that they charged the non-shooting officer and he turned state's witness. Obviously waaaaaaaay more pressure needs to be put on, but maybe it's a sign of some faint cracks in the thin blue wall.

― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 6:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Narrator: He was naive.

I just got off a fundraiser Q&A Zoom call for a college classmate who is running for Manhattan DA and I think if he wins, he will do incredible things for the city; his parents were social workers and a core tenet of his platform involves his office declining to prosecute people for things like drug possession and removing police officers from schools so kids don't end up in jail for acting like kids; he also is very much into defunding the police and reallocating resources to professionals more suited to dealing with (for example) issues caused by homelessness and mental illness. Kind of make me wish I lived in Manhattan so I could vote for him.

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 4:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

just a note that Philly elected someone similar, and he's turned out to be a total disaster who hasn't followed through on much of what he promised, partly through no fault of his own, but he certainly gets some of the blame. obviously yr friend may be different, but at this juncture, i'm just wary of placing any faith in politicians, DAs, or anyone with that kind of power.

I would invite you to look at his resume

he got my 100 bucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuk_m4jwuFY

nbc not on the ball obv. no news anyways

A few fun charts.

First is the average salary of various jobs in LA.

Given that the earnings needed to own a home and afford it are ~110k (HSH / HUD / Curbed) most two earner households with these careers (sans police) can’t afford a home in LA. pic.twitter.com/ouBtQ2P6P1

— can type lettwrs (@cantypelettwrs) June 18, 2020

Then, let’s look at how long it takes to enter one of these fields.

Note that the careers are kept in order, to make this parsable against the last one. Retail is a tricky bug, but I’m pegging it to “dedicated training” time, not probationary periods at starting. pic.twitter.com/84JcKu2H45

— can type lettwrs (@cantypelettwrs) June 18, 2020

well shit

can we get a bastard percentage for each profession as well

college is a scam wooooooooooooo

Note that excludes overtime. Many LA cops pull down another six figures of overtime.

weird. rookie cops in new york make a tiny fraction of that. in 2005 it was something like $22K. meaning they all commuted in from, like, nassau.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state/

well i dunno - either it's really ballooned or the gulf between rookie salaries and the brass is huge (or both)

wow yeah - check this out:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/careers/police-officers/po-benefits.page

one might THINK that higher salaries would attract a higher caliber of recruit...

That only works if they’re turning applicants away which I don’t think they are