Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

[Dr. Keith]

Don't see why he couldn't shoot the wheelchair...

Yep. Center of mass has to be close to the batteries on those things. I’m told that is all that Leo can shoot at: center of mass.

 

[JoeMorgue]

The officer was a bigger threat to the Home Depot than the criminal in the wheelchair. Any of the shots he fire could easily have ricocheted ed around the store and hit a bystander if they missed their target.

Hell wouldn't even need a ricochet. If you watch the footage there is at least one bystander in the field of fire when he shoots.

 

[chrispy]

Hell wouldn't even need a ricochet. If you watch the footage there is at least one bystander in the field of fire when he shoots.

The employee didn't seem overly concerned about the elderly man advancing at a snails pace, either.

 

[lomiller]

I don't know if military doctrine is the ideal philosophy, but I do think it would be a vast improvement over the current orientation of our civilian law enforcement. Well, the tens of thousands of jurisdictions each have their own, so even a smattering of minimum standards would itself be a tremendous leap forward.

It's not even military doctrine at this point. Even the US military has started to realize that if you point your weapons at civilians "as a precaution" you make more enemies than you had before and over time this costs more lives.

 

[Delphic Oracle]

It's not even military doctrine at this point. Even the US military has started to realize that if you point your weapons at civilians "as a precaution" you make more enemies than you had before and over time this costs more lives.

Agreed, which is why I say military EoF doctrine would be an improvement.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Cops really, really hate dogs. Hard to explain their love of injuring family pets other than assuming they are sadists

Viral Ring doorbell footage that showed a Terre Haute, Indiana police officer "brutally" kicking a dog has sparked outrage.

The footage was shared to Reddit's "Public Freakout" forum late Tuesday night by a Redditor under the username u/CantStopPoppin. The post has received more than 30,000 votes and over 2,500 comments.

Early Wednesday morning, politician Spike Cohen also shared the video on Facebook, where it has received more than 7,000 views.

In the video, a police officer is seen approaching a family's front porch steps. As he makes his way onto the porch, the dog begins to bark, so the officer kicks the animal.

https://www.newsweek.com/police-department-under-fire-after-video-cop-brutally-kicking-dog-goes-viral-1654990

Warning, the footage is pretty disturbing, this pig is throwing all his strength into kicking a dog for no apparent reason:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/r672qs/police_responding_to_home_invasion_brutally/

 

[wollery]

Warning, the footage is pretty disturbing, this pig is throwing all his strength into kicking a dog for no apparent reason:

It challenged his authority!

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Pigs bragging about how they robbed a woman of $100k.

High praise for a K-9 officer at Dallas Love Field Airport after more than $100,000 was found in a passenger’s luggage.

On December 2 the canine — named ‘Ballentine’ — alerted on an individual checked suitcase. It turns out the bag, that belonged to 25-year-old woman from Chicago who was on a layover at the airport, contained blankets and two large bubble envelopes filled with $106,829 in cash.

The woman who owned the bag was not arrested, but the money was seized and police say it will be subject to the civil asset forfeiture process.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/12/07/100k-seized-k9-officer-dallas-love-field-airport-sniffs-bag/

Carrying 100 grand in cash through an airport is suspicious as hell, but just ganking the money without any criminal charge is simply state sanctioned robbery. The woman must now prove herself innocent through the byzantine civil asset forfeiture system to get her money back.

 

[erlando]

Carrying 100 grand in cash through an airport is suspicious as hell, but just ganking the money without any criminal charge is simply state sanctioned robbery. The woman must now prove herself innocent through the byzantine civil asset forfeiture system to get her money back.

Considering how many constitutional amendments that civil asset forfeiture goes against it's mindboggling that it's allowed to continue. "Land of the free" indeed.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Oops All Bad Apples

Torrance police traded racist, homophobic texts. It could jeopardize hundreds of cases

The broad scope of the racist text conversations, which prosecutors said went on for years, has created a crisis for the Torrance Police Department and could jeopardize hundreds of criminal cases in which the officers either testified or made arrests.

The officers’ comments spared no color or creed: They joked about “gassing” Jewish people, assaulting members of the LGBTQ community, using violence against suspects and lying during an investigation into a police shooting, according to district attorney’s office records reviewed by The Times.

Frequently, hateful comments were targeted at Black people. Officers called Black men “savages,”and several variations of the N-word, according to documents reviewed by The Times. The officers also shared instructions on how to tie a noose and a picture of a stuffed animal being lynched inside Torrance’s police headquarters, according to the documents.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-08/torrance-police-traded-racist-homophobic-texts-it-could-jeopardize-hundreds-of-cases

It's the classic Racist Cop's Dilemma: using a bunch of slurs in provable ways limits your ability to imprison people. A modern Gordian Knot.

 

[Darat]

You can see why there are few good apples, dropping a good apple into a barrel of bad apples means it will turns bad.

 

[chrispy]

Oops All Bad Apples



https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-08/torrance-police-traded-racist-homophobic-texts-it-could-jeopardize-hundreds-of-cases

It's the classic Racist Cop's Dilemma: using a bunch of slurs in provable ways limits your ability to imprison people. A modern Gordian Knot.

I lived in that area for years. The departments there are all notorious, from Long Beach, Carson, Torrance and Signal Hill all the way through the LA Sherrif's Department All crooked as the day is long.

 

[jimbob]

You can see why there are few good apples, dropping a good apple into a barrel of bad apples means it will turns bad.

Or get fired

 

[TurkeysGhost]

It's impressive how consistently wrong about everything cops manage to be:

Fraternal Order of Police, the world's largest cop organization, issues letter opposing a nominee for the FCC because of her support for end-to-end encryption.

Dear Madam Chairman and Senator Wicker,

I am writing on behalf of the members of the Fraternal Order of Police to advise you of our profound concerns with the nomination of Gigi B. Sohn to serve as a Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and we urge the committee to contemplate the serious public safety considerations at issue here.

Specifically speaking, the FOP and many others in the law enforcement community at large are deeply troubled by the active and enthusiastic leadership role of Ms. Sohn as a board member for Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in their forceful advocacy of end-to-end encryption and “user-only-access”—often referred to in the law enforcement world as “going dark.”

https://fop.net/letter/fop-opposition-to-fcc-nominee/

 

[JoeMorgue]

Chicago council OKs $2.9 million settlement for woman police found naked when they broke open door of wrong home

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/us/chicago-anjanette-young-proposed-settlement-vote/index.html

 

[mgidm86]

That's almost a quarter million dollars a minute. Where do I sign up? Ya, I think that is an obscene amount of money for this.


Can't play the vid on my poor connection, I only saw part of it, so if I missed something...well not sure what I could have missed. I think less money has been awarded for wrongful deaths.

 

[erlando]

That's almost a quarter million dollars a minute. Where do I sign up? Ya, I think that is an obscene amount of money for this.

At least you would get to voluntarily sign up. The victim in this case didn't have that luxury.

I think it's a disgrace that noone was fired for this. The money from the settlement should absolutely be taken from the police budget. But it won't be. Noone will be fired either. Zero accountability as usual.

 

[Checkmite]

This Idaho sheriff has been charged with aggravated assault. The victims are a group of kids - members of a Mormon youth group - and their adult leader.

On the night of the assault, which took place in early November, the group was engaged in an activity where they were taping Thanksgiving-themed greeting cards to people's doors, then knocking and quickly running off, leaving the home's occupants to discover the cards.

They were unlucky enough to undertake this at the house of Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland, who answered the door in his long underwear with a gun. His own Ring door-camera video shows him finding the card and reading it, but he nevertheless became verbally angry anyway, spotted the youth group's car a short distance away and ran up to it, opening the door and yanking the adult leader out of the car by her hair and holding his gun to her head while screaming expletives at all of them, demanding to know who they were and what they're doing. The adult leader was in fact a neighbor and longtime personal friend of the sheriff's family, but he was too enraged in the moment to recognize her and continued his tirade threatening to shoot her for a time before finally going back to his own home.

By way of excuse, Sheriff Rowland told local police that he lives just outside a Native reservation where he is surrounded by "a lot of reservation people who are not good people", and that "drunk Indians" have come to his door before. It was not reported if he mentioned how many of them had left him Thanksgiving cards.

 

[Darat]

...snip...

By way of excuse, Sheriff Rowland told local police that he lives just outside a Native reservation where he is surrounded by "a lot of reservation people who are not good people", and that "drunk Indians" have come to his door before. It was not reported if he mentioned how many of them had left him Thanksgiving cards.

One of his medications makes him racist and anti-religious and unable to act in a reasonable manner?

 

[Random]

That's almost a quarter million dollars a minute. Where do I sign up? Ya, I think that is an obscene amount of money for this.


Can't play the vid on my poor connection, I only saw part of it, so if I missed something...well not sure what I could have missed. I think less money has been awarded for wrongful deaths.

That was the case where the guy the police were looking for was in a different apartment in the same building under house arrest and wearing a tracking anklet.