The Adventures in Policing Thread

The prosecutors should pile on the charges. They should even add reckless driving, armed kidnapping, disorderly conduct, Im sure we/they could come up with dozens. Then, define them all as aggravated by color of authority and ask for 50 year no parole sentences. this will get everyones attention. then start bargaining them away for guilty pleas and testimony against each other.

Are police drug tested? Are steroids and HGH included in the screen?

 

killed in front of the wife's eyes...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/...-of-police-Warning-graphic-video?detail=email

 

Family originally alleged police beat him to death, the video shows he was being restrained:
http://www.normantranscript.com/hea...ief-responds-to-man-s-death-at-Warren-Theatre
It will be interesting to see if there is video from the theater, prior to this video.

 

You scratch my back, I scratch you back..

http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-ca...iller-and-exchief-baldiviez-arrested/24662946

 

Don't know if it's true..

 

Apparently, it is. Not a bad idea, frankly. Video is a good back-up for most officers, especially if it records the situation as it initially develops, not just when the use of force begins. In traffic enforcement, IMO it's always helpful to record the violation, not just when the overheads come on. Some officers go years without a use of force or a civilian complaint. Others have them on a regular basis. Easier to identify problem cases.

 

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts...ly-3000-harassing-911-calls-convicted/2167476
An overabundance of patience. Quite a few jurisdictions would have sent officers over to arrest him, before the call total reached triple digits.

 

Attempt to arrest homicide suspect costs detective his life.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/...enix-police-shooting-abrk.html?nclick_check=1
RIP, Detective. Your name will be appearing here soon.
http://www.odmp.org/agency/3105-phoenix-police-department-arizona

 

NYPD in the mid-70s:

 

How much will NYC ever collect?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/n...ed-to-pay-new-york-citys-legal-fees.html?_r=0
"A jury ruled against his claim ... a federal judge took the unusual step of ordering him to pay the city’s legal fees of about $212,000 for making “obviously fictitious allegations” against the Police Department."

 

"We don't catch somebody every day, but we catch everybody some day."
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/...d-in-South-Florida-Authorities-250247711.html

 

Will he bring a stool sample, when he returns to court?
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/14/3995460/crime-stoppers-top-gun-found-in.html

 

Reminds me of Fela Kuti and the story behind one of his best albums.

 

No one asked to see the length of the barrel:
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/...ttoo_wakes_up_to_armed_police_.html?pagenum=1
While Delaware's Finest are balls-deep into this investigation:

 

I guess this is one of this job's most attractive perks..

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/21/haw...workers_theyre_targeting_in_an_investigation/

 

Norway. I love you. Id write a short paragraph but one of the commenters did a better jab than could I:




Holy shit, they didn't slam him on the ground, threaten to charge him with assaulting an officer, taze him or even remind him of what a shitbag he was while he was in cuffs. He get's a little aggressive and they calmly deal with it. He remains agitated, they laugh.

Why don't we see more stuff like this from the US? Why are American cops so much more willing to use overwhelming force when a simple conversation and some gentle encouragement will work.

 

Actually you see this on the street every day in America if you are watching. There are more capable and calm law enforcement people in this country than you can point a camera at. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, especially in this sphere.

Thing is, there are some of the other type out there too, and if you chance to point a camera at them, what it catches often makes the news and gets in our faces...

 

All you have to do is look. This classic predates the internet:

BTW, Maine State Police are notoriously underpaid.
Another:

 

How do we know they are? It's not implausible to believe that, if for no other reason than that we seem to me a more violent culture in general; but how do we know it's so?

 

Are such things complied. I wonder what the search parameters would be. Perhaps there is already a source. Im too weary from watching the Fire to go into it.

 

Compiled, perhaps.

 

Neither are these stories:
https://www.odmp.org/

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/19/6251442/sheriffs-deputy-shot-suspects.html
"the dead suspect ... stole a black BMW in Eugene, Ore., and forced the car's occupants into the trunk ... later able to escape. ... had a run-in with a northern California business owner and shots were fired. Later, officers located the BMW and shooting erupted. ... had a run-in with the law on March 6 when police stopped his vehicle and ... discovered firearms, including a modified AR-15, and body armor ... arrested and released the same day."

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com...riff-police-officer-orange-county-fire-rescue
"His killing came less than six weeks after Orange County Deputy Jonathan Scott Pine, 34, was shot to death as he investigated car burglaries in a residential neighborhood about a mile north of where German was gunned down."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/british-teenager-boyfriend-us-policeman-shot-dead

 

A Pittsburgh jury sort of convicts, but lets slide, police officers from a case initiated a few years back when they beat the crap out of a high school kid from the arts school...

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/c...Jordan-Miles-civil-trial/stories/201403310142

The case hinged on the details of an arrest on Jan. 12, 2010, on Tioga Street in Homewood, and on the credibility of parties. Mr. Miles' version of events differed radically from those of Pittsburgh police officers Michael Saldutte and David Sisak, and former city officer Richard Ewing, now with McCandless.​

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The jury found no excessive force, but false arrest... which is striking a lot of people as a bit odd.

Wonder how much this university of Arizona student will get from the from the cop who cross checks her: around the 22,23 second mark...