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Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

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US police officer 'flips' car driven by pregnant woman who was following police guidance on what to do when pulled over by the police.

https://jalopnik.com/cop-flips-pregnant-womans-while-she-tries-to-pull-over-1847062704

I have not heard of this manouevre in the UK, but it seems to be a commonly adopted policy by US police. Is it something commonly done elsewhere?

Police chases seem from statistics to be dangerous, half of those injured are by-standers and usually for trvial offences. Although the evidence suggests police chases should be resricted, it seems that like appropriate use of guns, appropriate use of cars by police is hard to enforce.
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She totally had it coming for clearly questioning police authority.
 
erlando said:
Imagine your car being intentionally crashed by police for a violation of the traffic code that amounts to no more than a fine. I hope she wins a huge settlement.
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Follow-up:

KARK 4 News: Arkansas State Police settles PIT maneuver lawsuit which injured pregnant woman

No dollar amount is noted.

After reviewing video footage of the incident and PIT maneuver in question, Harper’s attorneys said they learned that every one of the trooper’s superiors determined the situation reflected a violation of ASP policy related to the PIT maneuver.

The ASP, as part of the settlement agreement, has agreed to change its Use of Force policy as it relates to PIT maneuvers and institute an “objective standard” required to justify the maneuver’s use versus the previous “subjective standard.”

The change means the previous restrictions on using PIT maneuvers, such as in cases involving trucks carrying hazardous materials or larger vans or buses, will now be expanded. The new threshold moves the standard for use to when a trooper trying to “protect a third person or an officer from imminent death or serious physical injury.”

In a statement sent Friday afternoon, ASP noted that Dunn, a 27-year veteran of the agency, remained an active trooper in the Highway Patrol Division.
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Because of course... we can't actually deter harmful behavior by firing anyone.

ETA: Since guidelines were ALREADY violated, I'm not sure how adding more will fix anything. "Ok we'll add some more things we're not supposed to do that we'll probably do anyway. Deal?"

Also from AP:

Joshua Cook a spokesman for Harper’s attorneys, said the settlement included a “modest financial component” but did not disclose how much.
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Here's another

Someone decides that a deaf man and his wife signing to each other is a physical altercation, calls the cops. They taze him, kick him while he's down, continue screaming verbal orders as he keeps repeating "I'm deaf! I'm deaf!". From back in 2019
 
Security company accused of hiring ‘imposter’ police officers linked to embattled police department

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - It became very clear at the March 25 meeting of the POST commission that its tolerance with one police department had reached its limit.

“These laws are not going to be violated,” said Chad Partin, the Coffee County sheriff and commissioner on Tennessee’s POST (Peace Officers Standards and Training) Commission, which enforces state standards and training for local police.

At issue: an investigation by a POST investigator found that not only was Millersville interim police chief Melvin Brown Jr. uncertified, but so was assistant chief Glenn Alred.

POST certifies law enforcement by confirming that they have gone through proper training and ethics, essentially giving them a license to be an officer.

Without certification, police officers in Tennessee cannot work as full time law enforcement.

“This is serious business,” Partin said. “I can already tell that monkey business is going on, and I’m sick of it.”

And a WSMV4 Investigation found Millersville police, as well as its former, interim and assistant police chiefs, all have ties to Solaren Risk Management, a company, revealed in a series of WSMV4 Investigations, accused by former employees of allowing uncertified people to wear police identification.

Our investigation also found that three of Solaren’s current and former security officers were accused of looking so much like police and acted as such, that they were arrested for or are currently under investigation for impersonation of a police officer.
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If people posturing as police count, then it's been found out that the National Police Association, which has lately received widespread attention via press citations on crime-policy related stories and has even lately filed amicus briefs on court cases relating to "sanctuary cities", is actually just three guys in Indiana who are not police officers.

They raise money by sending mass mailings to various towns warning residents that they live in a "sanctuary city" and claiming that a donation to this group will help "fight" that; however the towns targeted by the mailing campaigns aren't sanctuary cities, but usually heavily conservative-leaning suburbs whose residents are most likely to respond to such fearmongering. According to filings, only a quarter or so of the organization's spending so far has gone toward its actual mission, and it is unclear what that has been spent on.
 
TurkeysGhost said:
Small town in Alabama has transformed itself into a police fiefdom funded by traffic ticket shake downs:

https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html

Town has a single store, a Dollar General, and a volunteer fire department. They also have a police MRAP, SWAT trained cops, and two drug sniffing dogs.
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Update:

https://www.al.com/news/2022/04/ins...-of-alabamas-most-predatory-police-force.html

Brookside is a town with a population of about 1,250. In 2018, it's police department was low-key employing one officer. The total revenue for the whole town was $586,000. By 2020, its police department grew to 13, not including reserves, and, due almost entirely to aggressive policing – it's revenue rose to $1.2 million. Fines and forfeitures made up 49 percent of the town revenue, and most of it went right back to the police and courts. They spent over $750K (more than half the town's new annual revenue) on surplus military equipment, including two utility trucks valued at $94,171 each and a utility ambulance valued at $96,466. (top photo). This was in addition to that MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle) they already had, which they paid over 400K for (bottom photo)

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What the actual **** does a town of 1250 people need all this stuff for?

To add to this disgusting state of affairs, if you complained, you were threatened. You were told there would be consequences if you posted unfavorable things about the Brookside Police on social media. The police Chief himself would drop by complainants' houses telling them things such as "I’m glad you haven’t needed me lately" and "I sure hope nothing bad happens to your nice house"

https://www.al.com/news/2022/04/ins...-of-alabamas-most-predatory-police-force.html

All of this has now been exposed by a father and son journalist team, who have won a Pulitzer Prize for their articles..

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a...or-uncovering-police-corruption-in-small-town
 
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smartcooky said:
Update:

https://www.al.com/news/2022/04/ins...-of-alabamas-most-predatory-police-force.html

Brookside is a town with a population of about 1,250. In 2018, it's police department was low-key employing one officer. The total revenue for the whole town was $586,000. By 2020, its police department grew to 13, not including reserves, and, due almost entirely to aggressive policing – it's revenue rose to $1.2 million. Fines and forfeitures made up 49 percent of the town revenue, and most of it went right back to the police and courts. They spent over $750K (more than half the town's new annual revenue) on surplus military equipment, including two utility trucks valued at $94,171 each and a utility ambulance valued at $96,466. (top photo). This was in addition to that MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle) they already had, which they paid over 400K for (bottom photo)

[qimg]https://www.dropbox.com/s/lxz5nsa3lh7pken/BPDVehicles.png?raw=1[/qimg]

What the actual **** does a town of 1250 people need all this stuff for?

To add to this disgusting state of affairs, if you complained, you were threatened. You were told there would be consequences if you posted unfavorable things about the Brookside Police on social media. The police Chief himself would drop by complainants' houses telling them things such as "I’m glad you haven’t needed me lately" and "I sure hope nothing bad happens to your nice house"

https://www.al.com/news/2022/04/ins...-of-alabamas-most-predatory-police-force.html

All of this has now been exposed by a father and son journalist team, who have won a Pulitzer Prize for their articles..

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a...or-uncovering-police-corruption-in-small-town
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I've said it before, but the "Dukes of Hazard" is looking more like an affectionate portrayal of small town policing in the US.
 
Trebuchet said:
They were bound to be attacked by Antifa and BLM. And I'm only half joking; would be surprised if they didn't identify that in their requests.
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Nah, ANTIFA was last week. This week it's the immigrant invasion with their gangs and drugs and horrible brown people disease.
 
jimbob said:
I've said it before, but the "Dukes of Hazard" is looking more like an affectionate portrayal of small town policing in the US.
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Clearly it was.

One thing (pretty much the only thing) memorable to me about the movie adaptation was that in that one Roscoe WAS the tough, mean sheriff that TV show Roscoe wanted to be but wasn't.

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NYPD systematically and illegally arrests New Yorkers who film police officers in public. Averaging 4 arrests per day despite NY state law making such arrests explicitly illegal.

While Adams may be frustrated with people who film the police, the NYPD is required under the Right to Record Act to publish statistics tracking how many people it arrests while they are trying to film police activity. According to those numbers, the NYPD arrested 2,746 people who were in the process of filming or trying to film police activity in the last two years alone. Of those arrested while trying to film the police, 55 percent were Black and 29 percent Hispanic, according to the NYPD's records. The NYPD did not respond to requests for comment on its Right to Record statistics or Griffard's suit.

"That's a lot of arrests," said Keegan Stephan, one of the lawyers representing Griffard in her suit. "The NYPD is arresting, on average, four people who are trying to film the police, every single day. We already have the Right to Record Act, but clearly we need something else. Some sort of court injunction would be a start."
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https://hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-took-this-dog-into-custody-because-his-owner-filmed-the-police
 
ZirconBlue said:
There's a movie?! I had no idea.
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Johnny Knoxville and Stifler from American Pie as the Duke Boys, Jessica Simpsons as Daisy Duke, Willie Nelson as Uncle Jesse, Burt Reynolds as Boss Hog. Silly and stupid, had some some good car stunts and a halfway decent funny lampshade hanging joke about the Confederate Flag on the roof of the General Lee.
 
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LASD deputies being ordered to show their gang tattoos as part of probe into the widespread reports of multiple violent deputy gangs operating within the department.

Less than a week after the county watchdog ordered dozens of deputies to show their gang tattoos and answer questions about violent cliques within the department, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna on Thursday sent a department-wide email commanding his staff to comply with the inspector general’s request.

“Please be advised that all Department personnel who received such a request are hereby ordered to appear and cooperate in such interviews,” Luna wrote in the firmly worded email. “All statements made by Department personnel shall be full, complete, and truthful statements.”

Any employees who obstruct or delay an investigation, the email went on to say, could be disciplined or fired under current county policies.

Luna’s response represents a major shift from the prior administration, which was often at odds with oversight officials and consistently resisted outside investigations. Before he was voted out of office last year, former Sheriff Alex Villanueva defied subpoenas from the Civilian Oversight Commission, blocked independent oversight of department databases and made Inspector General Max Huntsman the target of a criminal investigation.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-18/sheriff-orders-deputies-to-obey-watchdog-request-to-reveal-gang-tattoos
 
I'm conflicted. She knew the rules prior to purchasing the damn thing but in the end nobody stood to lose.
 
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