The Adventures in Policing Thread Part II

She went there

COP: “Do you know why I’m standing here?”

WOMAN: “Because you got all C’s in high school!”

😂💀 pic.twitter.com/jMKFo02cLh

— Rob (@_ROB_29) October 25, 2024

 

That looked a bit staged, tbh... bloody funny though

 

Cop who killed Breonna Taylor convicted

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/us/kentucky-breonna-taylor-jury-brett-hankison/index.html

 

I hope the judge doesn't wuss out on a long sentence. I can't believe the other two weren't charged. I guess 1 is better than none.

Maybe one of the lawyers can let us know, if he goes to jail can he change his mind admit to stuff that would lead to a new trial for the other two? Apparently the feds are saying its OK, because the boyfriend shot at them.

 

It would be a weird world if police officers could be convicted for returning fire.

 

There have been so many, but didn't these cops barge in without announcing themselves? Making them breaking and entering (much less they lied to get a warrant)?

 

Right. The actual shooting part has never seemed the seriously disturbing part of the incident. It was more the identifying and warranting part.

We expect policemen to be as trained and disciplined as embassy Marines, but that's just not reasonable; they are going to be scared and nervous and overreact just like anybody else, and shit is going to be happen. That's supposed in part to be controlled by not approving searches on false grounds and not sending them out to places that they think are one thing but are really something very different.

 

He can be given life, I believe. He won't be.

 

Exactly! They did everything in the run up wrong. I doubt anything will happen but one can hope he starts talking stuff that can get his fellow officers indicted.

 

Justice not served:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/02/us/alabama-hanging-death-dennoriss-richardson/index.html

 

I said a few years ago that the Lynching Museum sold out by closing the date on the lynchings it covered. I want to say they went thru the 60s and stopped. That place really should have been designed with some more room, and the words "This Space Reserved For Future Lynchings" or something to that effect should have been in a prominent location. Most importantly, it should have been part of the continuum instead of a separate wing. It's not like it ever stopped, no change but a drop in occurrences.

So far, they've missed Michael Donald, James Byrd, and Richardson. That's by the definition most of us would use for lynching (expanded a bit to include Byrd, who was not actually hanged)

 

You should give authorities your evidence then

 

I’m guessing you didn’t read the article at all, as he had been arrested multiple times since being released for a drug conviction, where none of the charges stuck?

 

You guess wrong.

If I made an analogy to the cop defenders who justify the George Floyd murder by talking about his record, or his tox report, would that be over the top?

 

Oh, well, then my bad for not making my point clear. I'm upset about this man's death. The injustice I was referring to was about a guy obviously being harassed by police. Yeah, I don't know if he was executed by them or not, but I was more referring to the intimidation by the police of the black population in Colbert, AL.

 

Black victims of police harrassment have to cross Ts and dot Is to get certain types of Whites to acknowledge misdeeds among their kind.

 

It seems that one of the largest traffickers of firearms within the US are the police, either departments themselves, or individual officers.

A CBS News investigation has discovered dozens of law enforcement departments buying and selling firearms, including machine guns. In most cases, this is being done via official means as a way to increase funding for the police department/officials, but, in other cases, the firearms are being purchased with public funds, but sold privately by individual officers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-selling-restricted-guns-posties/

 

The thin blue line between police and the mob....

 

I am not on Twitter anymore but a friend sent this

What am I reading?

From 1988–1990, Broward County Sheriff’s Office manufactured crack because it couldn't seize enough for sting operations. Deputies sold it within 1,000 ft of schools, so buyers would get mandatory min. 3 year sentences. As many as 2,600 buyers were convicted. https://t.co/zmXcEGdLON

— Eileen Clancy (@clancynewyork) December 8, 2024

From 1988–1990, Broward County Sheriff’s Office manufactured crack because it couldn't seize enough for sting operations. Deputies sold it within 1,000 ft of schools, so buyers would get mandatory min. 3 year sentences. As many as 2,600 buyers were convicted. https://t.co/zmXcEGdLON

 

Privatized prisons probably behind that.

 

Not sure the best place for this but it's kinda policing:

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/missouri-lawmaker-bounty-migrants/amp/

MO is going to offer cash bounties for bringing in "undocumented" people if this law passes.

 

I suspect the first "undocumented" person that turns our to be here legally is going to win a huge legal settlement.

 

I think that has already happened and I don't think they got a settlement, but I might be wrong about the second part.

https://www.tpr.org/news/2024-05-30...y-has-been-deported-to-mexico-its-complicated

Oh, I see that there were some settlements, but that well might dry under the orange buffoon..

 

The reason defendents settle is to avoid legal costs and because they don't want to put settlements in the hands of a jury.

And this would be State, not Federal.