Police abuses

[Husar]

You know what our police did when I reported the guy who robbed me? One officer stood next to him and talked to him.
That's it, no tazing, no violently throwing him to the ground, yelling loud and handcuffing him or any of that macho stuff.
And I'm still proud of our police, they solve our criminal problems without the macho attitude.

They put a lot of emphasis on talking skills here, I took a small test to determine whether a police career would suit me and a lot of the questions were about whether I would think I could defuse a certain situation verbally. Not by yelling at people with mah authoritay, then tazing them and handcuffing them while pressing their face onto the floor.

America's police desperately needs some reforms, this kind of behaviour is unacceptable, I think it mostly doesn't happen here because there is a somewhat different police culture here and the courts and the law don't back the police up all the time when they do nasty things. As ajax said, the law against videotaping police and probably a few others need to be revoked and the courts should side with the law, not the police.
The guy with the bat wasn't even close to the officer and stopped when he saw who was coming in. Still seems stupid to take a bat when someone yells "police!" though.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Note: Carrying a pocket knife in Seattle is punishable by on-the-spot execution:


And even though the SPD ruled the shooting unjustified, the officer will not face any legal charges.

CR

[Major Robert Dump]

IIRC, the guy was also hearing impaired and could not hear the cop yelling at him....and he was shot as he turned around to face the cop from 10 feet away.

[Crazed Rabbit]

As a general rule, police departments protect guilty cops and punish those who try to expose the guilty.

In this case a cop who maneuvered in a way to possibly kill a motorcyclist for speeding obstructed justice by not taking witness statements incriminating them.

The police chief who eventually found out about it and recommended the cops be fired was suspended - and one of the would be killers promoted to acting chief by the city council.

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/117445218.html

Criminal organizations.

CR

[Crazed Rabbit]

A Las Vegas cop fresh from training in North Korea:
http://www.lvrj.com/news/exclusive-p...Comments=y&c=y


EDIT: Awards for cops who kill innocents:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/...r-of-the-year/

http://www.lvrj.com/news/national-po...119926284.html

Widespread NYPD corruption:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...08-504083.html

Brutish cop in Seattle:
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/120521724.html

CR

[Louis VI the Fat]

Might as well dump this here, to lighten up the thread a bit:

French riot police have threatened to strike over a ban on drinking alcohol with their meals while on duty.

Up until now officers have always been allowed beer or wine during crowd-control operations.
Such events include soccer games or demonstrations.

However the French interior ministry now wants that to stop.
The national secretary of the French police union has accused the ministry of trying to turn officers into “priests”.

Didier Mangione has also defended the right of his members to a “small quarter-litre of red to accompany meals on the ground”.
According to French law alcohol is banned while employees are at work with the exception of ‘wine, beer, apple cider and pear cider’.
But it is thought that images of riot police drinking beer on the sidelines of a student demonstration in 2010 provoked anger from officials.
http://www.newstalk.ie/2011/news/fre...er-their-wine/

Does this mean no more drunk riot police beating up stoned protesters? What has become of the spirit of 1968?

[Crazed Rabbit]

A teen wears saggy pants after school, police taser, beat him, and break his arm:

Derby student says cops used Taser, broke his arm because of sagging pants
BY FRED MANN
The Wichita Eagle

DERBY — A Derby High School sophomore said today that he was hit by a Taser and had his arm broken by two school resource officers for refusing to pull up his pants.
The Derby Police Department said it will investigate the incident. The officers work for the department.
The teen and the Police Department offered differing accounts of what happened.
Jonathan Villarreal, 17, said he was walking with friends to the bus after school on Wednesday when one of the officers ordered him to pull up his pants. He told them he could wear them how he wanted because school was out, he said.
Villarreal said he had pulled his jeans low on his hips, as is fashionable among some young men, after leaving the school.
He said one of the officers, a man who was larger than him, pulled him to the ground by the neck and told him to stop resisting arrest. Villarreal denied he was resisting.
Both officers kneed him in the back and neck while he was on the ground, he said.
Because they were physical with him, he struggled to get up, but was pushed back down, he said.
At one point as he tried to get up, Villarreal said he felt his arm break when he was pushed back down.
After Villarreal tried three times to get up, one officer fired a Taser at his chest, he said. Although he was wearing a heavy coat, he still felt an electrical shock, he said.
Villarreal said the officers handcuffed him in spite of his complaints about pain in his arm, and kept him handcuffed until paramedics arrived and ordered the cuffs removed.
During the altercation, he said, an officer struck him in the eye, which was swollen shut.
Villarreal was taken by ambulance to a hospital, treated and released.
Derby Police Chief Robert Lee said Villarreal used profanities when the officers asked him to pull up his pants.
Lee also said the officers tried to escort Villarreal back inside the school to the office, but he refused to go.
At one point during the struggle, Lee said, Villarreal stood up and took "an aggressive stance," which led to the Taser attempt.


Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2011/04/28/182...#ixzz1LLlD5CDH

Gotta love the "aggressive stance" BS. You don't even have to raise your fists to give th cop reason to taze you; your footing can be used as an excuse for using a potentially deadly weapon.

CR