NEW POLICE MISCONDUCT THREAD

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[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Field drug testing kits need to go, or in the very least there should be no charges or convictions made until a certified lab can confirm the results. I wouldn't be one bit shocked if the private prison lobby pushes for the continued use of these notoriously unreliable test kits.

WHY ARE POLICE STILL USING DRUG FIELD TESTS?

Putting law enforcement'''s drug testing kits to the test

Unreliable and Unchallenged — ProPublica

 

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Police misconduct: Discipline records for thousands of cops uncovered

 

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[The Cat]

 

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‘We’re terrorized’: LA sheriffs frequently harass families of people they kill, says report | Los Angeles | The Guardian

Los Angeles sheriff deputies frequently harass the families of people they have killed, including taunting them at vigils, parking outside their homes and following them and pulling them over for no reason, according to a new report from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

For more on this here is a 15 part series of amazing reporting about the cop gangs in the LA sheriff office.

A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department - Knock LA

There are at least 18 gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Officials at various government agencies, including the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles County District Attorney, the California Senate Senate Subcommittee on Police Officer Conduct, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights have heard testimony on the violence inflicted on communities at the hands of deputy gangs for decades. And yet, there have not been any internal investigations or significant policy changes to address the issue. Deputy gangs have killed at least 19 people, all of whom were men of color. At least four of them had a mental illness. Los Angeles County keeps a list of lawsuits related to the deputy gangs. Litigation related to these cases has cost the County just over $100 million over the past 30 years.

 

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Alabama Police Officer Is Convicted of Murdering a Suicidal Man - The New York Times

A police officer in Huntsville, Ala., was convicted of murder on Friday for fatally shooting a man who had called 911 to report that he was suicidal and who was holding a gun to his head when the police arrived, prosecutors said.

The officer, William Darby, who had been strongly defended by the Police Department and cleared of wrongdoing by a city review board, will face 20 years to life in prison when he is sentenced for the killing of Jeffrey Parker, 49, on April 3, 2018, according to prosecutors...

Prosecutors said the evidence showed that the first officer on the scene, Genisha Pegues, had been trying to help Mr. Parker when Officer Darby showed up. Officer Darby, who was 25 and had been on the force for about 18 months, shot Mr. Parker 11 seconds after entering his house...

Officer Pegues had entered with her gun pointed down and found Mr. Parker sitting on a couch with a gun to his head, according to the lawsuit. She had been talking to him when Officer Darby arrived about five minutes later, according to the lawsuit. Officer Darby began screaming at Officer Pegues while he was still in the front yard, according to the lawsuit, telling her to point her gun at Mr. Parker because “he can shoot you!” Officer Darby then repeatedly yelled at Mr. Parker to put his gun down before firing a single shot that killed Mr. Parker, the lawsuit states...

At Officer Darby’s trial, Officer Pegues testified that she had never felt that Mr. Parker was a threat, and a prosecutor argued that Officer Darby had been the initial aggressor, according to WSFA, a local television station. Officer Darby’s lawyer, Robert Tuten, contended that Officer Darby had not been the initial aggressor and had been protecting not only himself but his fellow officers, WFSA reported. After the verdict on Friday, Mr. Tuten vowed to appeal.

“To say that people are shocked by this verdict would be a big understatement,” Mr. Tuten said at a news conference. “This was a very important case to Alabama law enforcement,” he added, and could affect the way officers throughout the state respond to people with guns and threats of suicide.

 

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Video Shows Troopers Punching Black Man During Fatal Arrest : NPR

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologized for leading them on a high-speed chase — footage of the man's last moments alive that The Associated Press obtained after authorities refused to release it for two years.

"I'm your brother! I'm scared! I'm scared!" Ronald Greene can be heard telling the white troopers as the unarmed man is jolted repeatedly with a stun gun before he even gets out of his car along a dark, rural road.

The 2019 arrest outside Monroe, Louisiana, is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. But unlike other in-custody deaths across the nation where body camera video was released almost immediately, Greene's case has been shrouded in secrecy and accusations of a cover-up.

Louisiana officials have rebuffed repeated calls to release footage and details about what caused the 49-year-old's death. Troopers initially told Greene's family he died on impact after crashing into a tree during the chase.

 

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Alabama Police Officer Is Convicted of Murdering a Suicidal Man - The New York Times

As far as I know, this motherfucker is still employed as a police officer in Huntsville.

 

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Two Denver Sheriff Department deputies suspended for beating, squeezing inmate’s arms – The Denver Post

Second Denver Sheriff's deputy dies from COVID-19 this month

Joined the Marines after 2006, became a cop, beat an inmate with nunchucks, dead of corona at 33. The Truest American Troop.

 

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Two Denver Sheriff Department deputies suspended for beating, squeezing inmate’s arms – The Denver Post

Second Denver Sheriff's deputy dies from COVID-19 this month

Joined the Marines after 2006, became a cop, beat an inmate with nunchucks, dead of corona at 33. The Truest American Troop.

I was going to say that the whole gripping people probably lead to the transmission of the virus.

 

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I was going to say that the whole gripping people probably lead to the transmission of the virus.

Sheriff's Deputy Who Posted Anti-Vaccine Content Dies of COVID

Take a look at his video about halfway down the page.

 

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Sheriff's Deputy Who Posted Anti-Vaccine Content Dies of COVID

Take a look at his video about halfway down the page.

Well then, Karma really does exist.

 

[Burning Paradigm]

I would hypothesize this number has remained steady or increased since it was published in 2015:

Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year

 

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Why do people think funding police has anything to do with lowering the crime rate?

Cop TV shows?
Cop Movies?

I'm pretty confident it's TV shows. Law and Order distorted so many minds.

 

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Why do people think funding police has anything to do with lowering the crime rate?

Cop TV shows?
Cop Movies?

I'm pretty confident it's TV shows. Law and Order distorted so many minds.

Because if the police is funded well and it is working properly that should do a good chunk of the job. Especially if this is also the case with other "agencies" and the laws make sense. However in practice this can obviously crash as a concept. But if I am not mistaken here we have more police per capita but also 7 times less people in prisons per capita. What probably isn't a coincidence. Since we probably have much better overall mix in public security and welfare state. However having the police that has proper funding and that can be trusted is evidently a good chunk of that mix. While the other is probably the fact that here there is no libertarian mindset of everyone truly for himself.

 

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Of Course it's Florida doing Precrime

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I would hypothesize this number has remained steady or increased since it was published in 2015:

Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year

Chicago police were actually found to be operating a burglary ring in the 60s, in what's known as the "Summerdale scandal."

 

[The Cat]

Chicago police were actually found to be operating a burglary ring in the 60s, in what's known as the "Summerdale scandal."

All police operate burglary ring. Theyre kinda like state sponsored highwaymen...