Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

[bruto]

He had a motorcycle and they were looking for a "group of bikers who were pointing guns at people in the county." He obviously deserved whatever he got.

Seriously, this is great stuff. They were obviously responding to a 9-1-1 call which means there's no real evidence of a crime, likely no descriptions beyond "bikers," and thus little reason to pull anyone over let alone engage in a violent arrest.

**** all police everywhere.

According to the report, he fled a traffic stop and was chased, which might make a difference. Or at least someone did. On the other hand, one thing not made clear is whether the chase was a close one, in which the quarry was kept in sight. It seems unlikely that a person being closely chased would stop for gas, which suggests the real possibility that, even if the cops had good reason to stop a real bad guy, and even if they had good reason to chase him, they might well have chosen the wrong victim altogether.

No doubt, just in case, they'll charge him with something - resisting arrest, unlawful ignition, barbecuing without a permit....

 

[shemp]

I have legit halfway wondered if pitting various LEO departments against each other is our best bet.

However, this could result in an evolutionary process in which the result would be fewer police departments but the survivors would be far better equipped to carry out their evil. But if the battles are televised and live streamed, there would be big entertainment value, so I say go for it!

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Mayor Adams asks NYers to send photos of subway cops using phones on the job

Mayor Eric Adams is tired of seeing NYPD officers on their phones at subway stations — and is asking New Yorkers to snap a picture when they see it happening.

“You walk downstairs, you see five transit officers standing at the booth looking at their phones,” New York City’s mayor griped during a budget briefing at City Hall on Tuesday.

“If you see it, send me a picture. Let me know,” he said, “because I’ll go to that district the next day and see exactly what’s happening.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/26/mayor-adams-asks-nyers-to-send-photos-of-subway-cops-using-phones-on-the-job/

Tax dollars hard at work to have a bunch of cops standing around in subway terminals playing Candy Crush.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Priorities:

Seattle PD sexual assault unit too understaffed to investigate new cases, meanwhile goon squad that clears homeless encampments is fully staffed and has grown.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/seattle-police-halted-investigating-adult-sexual-assaults-this-year-internal-memo-shows/

Seattle police’s sexual assault and child abuse unit staff has been so depleted that it stopped assigning to detectives this year new cases with adult victims, according to an internal memo sent to interim police Chief Adrian Diaz in April.

The unit’s sergeant put her staffing crisis in stark terms.

“The community expects our agency to respond to reports of sexual violence,” Sgt. Pamela St. John wrote, “and at current staffing levels that objective is unattainable.”

Law enforcement agencies here and across the country have grappled with labor shortages during the pandemic and since the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd. But Seattle’s failure to staff its sexual assault unit stands out from other local police departments and raises questions about the Seattle Police Department’s priorities, advocates say.

The memo, sent April 11, emerged amid a wave of new political promises for policing in Seattle. Last fall, Seattle voters elected a new mayor who rejected calls to defund the police and campaigned on a platform to clear public spaces of homeless encampments and strengthen public safety.

Behind the scenes, police leaders confronting an ongoing staffing crisis shored up patrol and positions that respond to homeless encampments, while some investigative units shrunk.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/seattle-police-halted-investigating-adult-sexual-assaults-this-year-internal-memo-shows/

Cops won't solve a rape, but they'll be plenty on hand to throw away a homeless person's unsightly tent.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Former police officer arrested outside Capital with fake badge, guns, ammo, and body armor.

CNN - The US Capitol Police on Friday charged a retired New York police officer with unlawful possession of high-capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition, according to the agency.

Officers arrested Jerome Felipe of Michigan around 5 a.m. ET Friday, the agency said. Felipe had parked his 2017 Dodge Charger near the Capitol and allowed officers to search it, according to a USCP statement.

Officers found a “BB gun, two ballistic vests, several high capacity magazines, and other ammunition in the car,” the statement said.

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/capitol-police-arrest-man/index.html

NOTHING TO SEE HERE! TOTALLY NORMAL BEHAVIOR! NO CAUSE FOR ALARM! GO ABOUT YOUR DAY AND DON'T BE DRAMATIC HYPERBOLE STRAWMAN!

 

[shemp]

'I'm not going to help you:' Man drowned in Tempe Town Lake as police watched, transcripts reveal

TEMPE, Ariz. - Three police officers have been placed on administrative leave after they reportedly watched as a man drowned in Tempe Town Lake, transcripts revealed.

The incident began as a reported domestic violence situation at Tempe Beach Park between the man, identified as Sean Bickings, and his wife. Both denied that any fight had taken place.

When officers were called, Bickings reportedly tried to run away from them by fleeing into the lake. He was unable to get out of the water, and eventually drowned.

Bickings was later found by Tempe Fire's Dive and Rescue team in a portion of Tempe Town Lake located near the Tempe Center of the Arts. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Yeah, he was black, what else is new?

The allegation is that the officers could have done something to save him but didn't. The transcript is available in the link. You can read it and make up your own mind.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

'I'm not going to help you:' Man drowned in Tempe Town Lake as police watched, transcripts reveal




Yeah, he was black, what else is new?

The allegation is that the officers could have done something to save him but didn't. The transcript is available in the link. You can read it and make up your own mind.

Truly impressive reading the transcript. Cops think even the laws of physics must comply with their commands. Telling a drowning man to not drown and then badgering a non-cop bystander, who rightly sees that this man is going to drown if not aided, for being too emotional is pure cop brain at work.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

NPR article: The tragic history of police responding too late to active shooters

It's a good article defining the problem. While it's not about the police killing and abusing people it does explain where a lot of the problems come from: poor and inconsistent training, failure to establish chains of commands, no reliable/consistent responses to address failures after the fact to name a few problems.

There's a tendency developing in the Uvalde mass shooting to blame things like dispatch and no chain of command between 3 departments responding rather than address individual officers being afraid to move in.

IOW, not dealing with bad or poorly performing cops. It's similar to cops never being held accountable and they know it. Chauvin, George Floyd's killer is being sued by a couple people who say he also pinned them down in the same way several years before he killed Floyd. Missed opportunities to address his brutal behavior before he killed someone.


And no, I don't hate all cops.

 

[Kestrel]

One of our local police officers has been arresting people for DUI that are not actually drunk.

Officer under investigation for questioned DUI arrests

Fort Collins Police admit Haferman made eight DUI arrests in 2021 and another in 2022 where the blood results showed no alcohol or drugs were detected. In some cases, the blood tests were conducted even after the suspect’s breath showed zero blood-alcohol content on the breathalyzer.

 

[shemp]

Why the hell is this ******* jerk working as a police officer.

Oh, I forgot, there's thousands and thousands like him.

 

[Trebuchet]

Happened to me seven or eight years ago, in a liberal little town. At 11:00 AM after I rear-ended a Prius. They then fabricated a story about a warrant to justify handcuffing me. Apparently they didn't have their own breathalyzer so had to wait for the State Patrol, who found nothing and pretty much looked daggers at the locals. Oops, they guessed it was somebody else with my name on the warrant.

 

[Matthew Best]

New video shows that 13-year-old shot in the back by Chicago police had his hands raised at the time.

Police shot him at a gas station, causing severe spinal injuries, then picked him up and dragged him a few yards for no apparent reason. (Meanwhile as this was happening another police vehicle crashed into the gas station causing the police to rush away from him.)

The child was unarmed and no weapon was recovered.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...icago-teen-hands-up-shot-police-b2103189.html

Here's the video:

 

[lomiller]

What's with the guy at the beginning right after the kid was shot. He run off to the side, lays down on his back like he was pretending to be injured then wandering off screen to the right. He has a flashlight and seems to be dressed like a police officer.

 

[erlando]

What's with the guy at the beginning right after the kid was shot. He run off to the side, lays down on his back like he was pretending to be injured then wandering off screen to the right. He has a flashlight and seems to be dressed like a police officer.

Yeah, I wondered about that also. He gets up pretty quickly though.

 

[bluesjnr]

What's with the guy at the beginning right after the kid was shot. He run off to the side, lays down on his back like he was pretending to be injured then wandering off screen to the right. He has a flashlight and seems to be dressed like a police officer.

Yeah, I wondered about that also. He gets up pretty quickly though.

I wondered too. Isn't he the shooter going out of his way to show us how traumatised he is?

 

[Matthew Best]

He realises he ****** up.

 

[Suddenly]

Happened to me seven or eight years ago, in a liberal little town. At 11:00 AM after I rear-ended a Prius. They then fabricated a story about a warrant to justify handcuffing me. Apparently they didn't have their own breathalyzer so had to wait for the State Patrol, who found nothing and pretty much looked daggers at the locals. Oops, they guessed it was somebody else with my name on the warrant.

The shootings get the pub, but the sheer number of times something like this ends with people getting criminal records and massive financial liability isn't great either. The extent to which a cop can mess up your life with nominal at best judicial oversight is mindboggling to those innocent of the process.

Getting stuck in jail for nine months on a fanciful DUI charge waiting for a trial because a person can't make bail isn't quite being shot but not all that far away either.

 

[shemp]

At a Roe rally in Rhode Island, a black woman who is running for state Senate got punched in the face by her Republican opponent who is also a police officer:

https://twitter.com/JenRourke29/status/1540702320907935744

I'm a reproductive rights organizer & State Senate candidate. Last night, after speaking at our Roe rally, my Republican opponent – a police officer – violently attacked me.

This is what it is to be a Black woman running for office. I won't give up.

Providence police officer on leave after allegedly assaulting an organizer at abortion rights rally

A Providence Police Officer was placed on administrative leave Saturday, after allegedly assaulting a woman who was among those protesting at the Rhode Island State House Friday night, the department announced.

The Boston Globe identified the woman who was assaulted as Jennifer Rourke, an organizer of the Providence protest and a candidate for a State Senate District 29 seat in Warwick. Rourke told the Globe the person who hit her was off-duty police officer Jeann Lugo, who is the Republican running against her. Lugo told the Globe he “stepped in to protect someone that a group of agitators was attacking.”

In a tweet Saturday afternoon, Lugo announced “I will not be running for office this fall.”

 

[bruto]

At a Roe rally in Rhode Island, a black woman who is running for state Senate got punched in the face by her Republican opponent who is also a police officer:

https://twitter.com/JenRourke29/status/1540702320907935744



Providence police officer on leave after allegedly assaulting an organizer at abortion rights rally

She's born. Nothing to see here.

 

[shemp]

At a Roe rally in Rhode Island, a black woman who is running for state Senate got punched in the face by her Republican opponent who is also a police officer:

https://twitter.com/JenRourke29/status/1540702320907935744



Providence police officer on leave after allegedly assaulting an organizer at abortion rights rally

Following up on this:

Providence officer charged with assaulting political rival at abortion rally

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Providence police officer and Republican political candidate is facing charges after he allegedly assaulted his Democratic opponent outside the Rhode Island State House Friday night, in an incident that has quickly drawn national attention.

The Providence Police Department announced that Patrolman Jeann Lugo — who had been running for state Senate — was arrested, charged and arraigned Saturday afternoon at the Lincoln barracks of the Rhode Island State Police. The department had placed him on paid leave earlier in the day.

Police said Lugo, 35, was charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct and released on personal recognizance. He will be arraigned again on July 8.

Lugo is a three-year veteran of the force and was off duty at the time, according to police. The incident remains under investigation.