Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

So Illinois passed a police reform bill yesterday and, boy oh boy, are the crybaby cops mad about it. The big "win" is that the whole state will end cash bail within two years. Otherwise it consists of what I'd say should have already been the bare minimum we ask cops to do - body cams for every cop in the state, limits on spending on military gear, fewer acceptable reasons for using deadly force, etc. Obviously this is no patch on defunding, but it's hilarious to see how the cops are flipping the fuck out over be asked to be held even the tiniest bit accountable for their actions.

There are some cops in my extended family, I never see them (thankfully) and usually manage to forget I'm even related to them, but my brother sent me screenshots of their overly dramatic whiny ass FB posts about how they "have no choice but to move to another state" in order to continue their careers in law enforcement and how "this will destroy us financially" or how they "have to quit". I mean, sure, getting all of your cops to quit being cops is one form of defunding.

It’s working for Seattle, big attrition spike after the pigs got their fee-fees hurt all summer by protestors they used chemical weapons on.

xps

the Coburg Oregon speed traps were so egregious that they prompted statewide legislation:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/notorious-for-i-5-speed-traps-coburg-police-clean-up-their-act/

Once, aggressive motorcycle patrols of the interstate supplied nearly half of Coburg’s $1.7 million municipal budget.

Yeah, it's a whole racket in a lot of places. It's still fresh in my mind because I was supporting two people on an adjunct salary and had to do that shit at the same time and it was fuuuucked up

“Tell us where the weed is, it will be easier on you.” - cop who was tearing my truck apart when I hadn’t even seen weed in 3-4 years, being white I at least got to laugh at him pulling that.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader-exclusive-idUSKBN29W1PE

there are certainly many more

Curious about how Proud Boys and adjacent groups have responded to this news

they are talking to their FBI agents about it

Brock Vond is all over it.

not the main point of the article but even here you have to hear both sides: antifa is often violent, proud boys were founded to protest political correctness, journalistic objectivity will kill us all

good point :(

xp yeah, I read that and was like ... uh, violent against whom? Are dumpsters, newsracks, and cop cars considered people now?

In the USA, a dumpster or a cop car or a Starbucks window is worth more than a life, particularly if that life belongs to a Black or non-white person.

Afaic, this is proof that the society we live in cannot be redeemed.

I blame Straw Dogs

scum

Rochester Police pepper spray a 9 year old girl handcuffed in the back of a cruiser after telling her, "You're acting like a child."pic.twitter.com/QVGCbgN3ep

— Soundtrack to the End (@_WhatRiot) February 1, 2021

would great be if people who ostensibly care about stopping shit like be this would be willing to consider not fucking funding it. hard to forget how passionate a whole bunch of people were about blaming biden's imaginary loss on this extremely modest demand

fuck's sake

I tend to avoid watching these videos, but I watched this one with the sound off and that tweet leaves out the shock of the end of the video when you see that at least half a dozen adult police officers showed up for this. Utterly disgusting.

wow tho
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxb94/is-this-beverly-hills-cop-playing-sublimes-santeria-to-avoid-being-livestreamed

https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/charges-dismissed-against-buffalo-cops-who-shoved-elderly-protester/

of fucking course

Good news out of NYC: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/nyregion/nypd-discipline-records-ruling.html

A Three Percenter who studied MMA techniques at Tiger Schulman's. You may not like it, but this is what Peak NYPD looks like https://t.co/WDPCSPckpc

— Good Idea Dave (@DaveCoIon) March 1, 2021

with an obstructed plate @ streets blog

that's so sweet that they love the wilderness though

ICYMI: Last year, the @dallasnews revealed TX police regularly hypnotize witnesses in criminal investigations, helping send dozens of men & women to prison — some to their deaths.

Yesterday, we learned state police ended their hypnosis program. https://t.co/dhNBM6x6qM #txlege

— Lauren McGaughy 🌟 (@lmcgaughy) March 12, 2021

jesus.

That is the most preposterous thing I've read in a while. whew.

https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/

the LAPD have shot 6 people in 8 days

the replies are good

There’s been an Officer-Involved Shooting in the area of 11th Street and Vermont Avenue within LAPD’s Olympic Division. A Public Information Officer is responding to the scene, and we will provide more details as they become available.

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) March 23, 2021

How was the officer involved?

That’s always the question isn’t it

If you don't understand why ppl are asking LAPD and LASD "how was the officer involved?" It's because they always say "officer involved shooting" and every single time it's "an officer killed someone"

One particular time someone asked & LAPD responded incredibly disrespectfully https://t.co/jlxMKJZszc pic.twitter.com/nL2ViNit2c

— Montrell Thigpen Ⓜ️✪ (@mot427) March 23, 2021

After cutting the police budget slightly, including reducing the war-crime-approving police chief's personal salary so much (from $300,000 to merely "more than a quarter of a million pa"), the Seattle City Council gave a $3,000,000 contract to a previously-not-existing group to deliver a report on how to further rebudget cop alternatives.

Any contract above $54,000 is required to go to tender.

Listen to @LAPDHQ officers on the police scanner last night talk about how they want to dump gas on protestors and set them on fire.

This is nazi shit.

pic.twitter.com/eS5EIc3IXe

— People's City Council - Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil) March 25, 2021

I used to think maybe there was a good cop,,, but then the last eleventy years happened and that cop never once stood up and said “hey y’all, we’ve got some problems in the dept. maybe in a lot of depts”.

not one single cop, not one single time. so yeah, ACAB. abolish. or at least defund.

It would’ve been my uncle in about 1978 when he got on the front pages of the Twin Cities papers alleging corruption in the Minneapolis police but he died in 1995, so...

Proud of my police department

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNbY6H_ra4w

what they fail to mention is that the mental heath pilot program was introduced after the police killed a man with a knife who was suffering from a mental health crisis just a few blocks from there

a touching moment that is so aberrant we put out a press release about it

it was the first successful de-escalation in hyattsville PD history

i didn't finish the video because it made me queasy but wouldn't it be cool if the people on the news asked ANY questions such as "why do we send armed men to calm down people in distress"

then it wouldn't be so touching. it's entertainews

but i am glad hyattsville pd got there before pg county pd. they scare the shit out of me

I remember a big blow-up over a PG county PD unarmed black man murder from a couple decades ago already.

Fun to hear nothing changed

they had one last year iirc and the cop was actually charged

only because the victim was handcuffed so it was difficult for them to make it look legitimate https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/william-green-settlement.html

then there's this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-discrimination-lawsuit-county-report/2021/03/08/4259dbc0-8046-11eb-9ca6-54e187ee4939_story.html