The Adventures in Policing Thread Part II

Belize.

 

"You can check out any time you like, but..."

 

If Schumer had his druthers, I'm sure that would be the case. Of course it's already apparently a big enough pain in the ass that many ex-pats are in an impossible situation, and potential ex-pats remain only potential unless they have enormous amounts of cash already offshore.

 

Sad!

 

Four COs who basically boiled a Miami inmate to death in the showers won't be charged with a crime:


JERRY IANNELLI



On June 23, 2012, Darren Rainey, a schizophrenic man serving time for cocaine possession, was thrown into a prison shower at the Dade Correctional Institution. The water was turned up top 180 degrees — hot enough to steep tea or cook Ramen noodles.

As punishment, four corrections officers — John Fan Fan, Cornelius Thompson, Ronald Clarke and Edwina Williams — kept Rainey in that shower for two full hours. Rainey was heard screaming "Please take me out! I can’t take it anymore!” and kicking the shower door. Inmates said prison guards laughed at Rainey and shouted "Is it hot enough?"

Rainey died inside that shower. He was found crumpled on the floor. When his body was pulled out, nurses said there were burns on 90 percent of his body. A nurse said his body temperature was too high to register with a thermometer. And his skin fell off at the touch.

But in an unconscionable decision, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's office announced Friday that the four guards who oversaw what amounted to a medieval-era boiling will not be charged with a crime.

“The shower was itself neither dangerous nor unsafe,’’ the report says. “The evidence does not show that Rainey’s well-being was grossly disregarded by the correctional staff.’’

Rundle's office announced the results of its investigation in a Friday afternoon news-dump, the kind that public officials typically only use to bury unflattering news or information. Rundle's office would clearly like this case to vanish over the weekend — but the facts of the case are so inhumanely grotesque that the decision should haunt the office for eternity.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/f...enic-black-man-darren-rainey-to-death-9213190

 

So, essentially, he was tortured to death... and they're not being charged with anything.

 

And a couple of COs moved on. One is a cop in my in-laws' town in Miami area.

 

In all honesty it sounds more like the sort of thing ISIS would do.

I mean, lashing out at someone in a moment of anger when you've temporarily lost control, (if they've attacked you or whatever), is one thing... I think most of us can understand that on a human level at least, (even if they're not meant to do it and are meant to be trained to avoid such things), but, this? It really is absolutely appalling.

 

MLS goalkeeper Tally Hall has been sworn in as an Orlando police officer. Im sure we join in wishing Officer Hall the best of luck in his future endeavors. If Im ever in the Orlando Clink I certainly hope for Tally to be my detective. Its not like nothing ever gets past Tally Hall.

 

NYPD to delivery workers: DIAF


PD officers confiscated 247 electric-assist bikes in a 24-hour period on Wednesday, AMNY reports. E-bikes remain illegal under state law even though federal rules have permitted them for years.

The sting appears to be part of a citywide crackdown in the name of traffic safety. “FYI: as weather gets warmer… local precincts [and NYPD’s transportation bureau] will be seizing illegal ATV’s, E-bikes & motorcycles,” NYPD transit bureau Chief Joseph Fox tweeted. Precincts across Manhattan posted photos of the dozens of bikes confiscated, usually with some reference to Vision Zero.

Chief of Transportation Thomas Chan’s feed is also awash in images of impounded electric bicycles.

While riding an e-bike on the sidewalk can be a hazard, NYPD’s approach to enforcement is out of all proportion to the public safety risk.


Disgusting humans these people are. Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City and the boss of the police commissioner, is a fraud.

 

Not a problem. The dirtbikers of Harlem will surely fill the void.

 

I don't see the problem, unless they are on the sidewalks. In which case, lock 'em up.

 

There is no problem. The NYPD loves to harass people on bicycles and e-bikes because it's easy. They don't really care about violations by motorists because most of them are motorists and stopping cars requires a little effort. Plus, especially in NYC, motorists then to be on the upper end of the income scale. Much easier to ******** over poor people.

On the sidewalk comment, unsurprisingly, the NYPD view bike lanes as parking for themselves. I assume they view the fact that that can force delivery bikers into traffic and put them in danger as a feature rather than a problem.

 

I can't can't quite figure out on what basis they're illegal? Does anybody know?

My cousin has one and they're legal over here, (and in most of Europe I believe), as long as they can't go 'unaided' above 24kmh, (15.6mph).

What, exactly, is the issue?

 

They are illegal under New York state law for, um, who knows (I don't think that's common elsewhere in the United States). Obviously that needs to change.

 

That's more ebikes than speeders caught by @NYPDMTN ALL FEBRUARY. More 1/2 # of speeders caught YTD This is not #VisionZero @NYPDTransport pic.twitter.com/dd6oYFJrA9

— Ollie Oliver (@Ollie_Cycles) March 23, 2017

What idiocy. Another good reason to hate NYC, LOL.

 

United once tossed me off a flight where I was already seated. They gave me a standby seat, then the guy showed up just as the door was closing. Oops, no more seat. A four-hour wait until the next flight.

It seems this guy had it worse though -- booked and then randomly removed.

 

Could someone with more knowledge than me please explain why is a flight is overbooked you would remove someone that is seated instead of simply telling the last person not to get on?

 

And you would not book your key staffs airline tickets before you get to the stage of throwing customers off a plane because, why, exactly??

If you are too dumb not to boom flight staff tickets before the plane is full, you need to eat the financial loss instead of calling he cops on your paying customers.

And of all the people to get picked by an "algorithm" to be forcibly removed, it's the Asian doctor with glasses who needs to get back to his patients. Why couldn't they have picked the black dude with a criminal record, or the guy with a suspicious looking beard and Arabian nome-de-guerre on his passport? Major PR fail, that algorithm needs to get fired.

 

I do wonder who the first person to blame gov't regulations will be. IIRC, airlines face fines for delays/cancellations not caused by weather/safety.

If the entire "crew needed 4 seats" is true. Some idiot will come out with that take.

 

Funnily enough the only times I have been to O'hare we're on flights from Louisville. Security varies greatly between airports so I'm not sure how the relationship between TSA and Chicago PD works at O'hare. But you're correct, Chicago PD needs to be concerned with enforcing the laws of the City of Chicago, not the "laws" of United Airways or their affiliates. You do need local PD at the airport to enforce state and local laws but an airline shouldn't be able to call on them to arrest someone who is not breaking a law.

Even businesses that have "we reserve to right to refuse service to anyone" policies won't take you're money, have you sit down and order, then call law enforcement to kick you out.