Cops behaving badly ...

Thank you for posting this S2. Yet one more confounding, chronic deficiency within our "checks & balances".
Shiftless2 said:
"... a culture of corruption ... Hanceville's police department" ABC News #281
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Lord Acton inspired a familiar paraphrase:
- Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. -

"It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible." Frank Herbert

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

If knowledge is power, and power corrupts, and corruption is crime, and crime doesn’t pay, does knowledge in the end, leave you broke?

If a deity with encyclopedic knowledge can be omnipotent, but an omniscient deity cannot, then "knowledge is power" is a truism with a limit. Omniscience is disempowering. We're more powerful if we don't know what we'll do next?
 
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Shiftless2 said:
"... controlled and regulated Police Academies. I have gone through 3." KS #283
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A relatively small % of global population has graduated police academy.
Were yours successive? Or 101 x 3 ?

Do you have the ACLU on speed-dial?
Shiftless2 said:
"you aren't what we want in our force." KS @283
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This may be a more fundamental issue.
But if it is as presented here, the 2nd Trump administration probably not the best time to hope to remedy it.
 

This was in Sacramento County. The victim, Brandell Sampson was awarded $217k for this incident because he wasn't even the right person the police were after​


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One correction - it should say "one of the reasons"

No idea if the cops in question were penalized for their actions.
 
George Floyd, murdered by police officer Chauvin:

Why Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro want Trump to pardon George Floyd’s murderer​

The video depicting Floyd’s murder hasn’t changed in five years. But the Republican Party has.
...
Now Shapiro claims that Chauvin’s trial was a farce and that his “conviction represents the defining achievement of the Woke movement in American politics. The country cannot turn the page on that dark, divisive, and racist era without righting this terrible wrong.” Other conservative commentators and politicians have also come to Chauvin’s defense, but Shapiro’s plea achieved particular significance after it was amplified by Elon Musk, Trump’s unofficial co-president and his largest campaign donor.
www.msnbc.com

Opinion | Why Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro want Trump to pardon George Floyd’s murderer

The video depicting Floyd’s murder hasn’t changed in five years. But the Republican Party has.
www.msnbc.com www.msnbc.com

Will Chauvin be free to celebrate St. Patrick's Day festivities at the pub of his preference?
Didn't take long to spring the Jan.6 insurrectionists.
 
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www.mercurynews.com

Ex-Antioch cop takes the witness stand, says he and colleagues hurt people because they enjoyed it

Eric Rombough testified he would keep less-lethal rounds on his mantel, along with photos of the person he shot, annotated with the date he shot them.
www.mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com

That article is behind a paywall, this one isn't

www.police1.com

'Dishing out punishment': Ex-Calif. cop testifies he intentionally caused pain during arrests

Ex-Antioch cop Eric Rombough stated he and a colleague shot rubber bullets, celebrated K-9 bites and falsified reports in order to "punish" citizens
www.police1.com www.police1.com
 
Shiftless2 said:
- the shooter was arrested and charged - #290
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“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.” Eldridge Cleaver

It's open season on dark-skinned citizens.

[Temporarily?] Putting officer Derek Chauvin in prison for the high profile murder of George Floyd has not terminated this centuries old legacy of racist bigotry.

Among a broad swath of the U.S. innumerate electorate there's a common misimpression "the" news informs us of the state of our nation.
Those that better understand statistical sampling know that these news reports are anecdotes, not sampled according to formal statistical sampling protocols.
Thus even if the reports are true and unbiased, they may not necessarily reveal the full story in each location coast to coast across the U.S.

How many more such events are not reported? And how many of them never even get included in the FBI crime statistics data?

According to "the" news, the picture is bad. But the true picture is likely to be worse than that.
 
sear said:
How many more such events are not reported? And how many of them never even get included in the FBI crime statistics data?
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Not reported or simply swept under the rug?

Remember - the original press release re George Floyd's death simply said that he'd suffered some sort of medical event - the only reason we even heard about it was because a bystander had video'd the whole thing and came forward with the evidence.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Not reported or simply swept under the rug?" S2 #292
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Precisely.

Shiftless2 said:
"- the only reason we even heard about it was because a bystander had video'd the whole thing and came forward with the evidence." S2
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George Floyd, Rodney King, I don't doubt the true list is longer than any one knows.

- There is a counterpoint here.
It's not likely most chiefs of police thrill to the appearance of their own command incompetence, and they seek such controversy for the sheer aesthetic joy of it.
They have a job to do.
The have to populate their departments with the applicants available.

And so while "simply swept under the rug" is certainly a component here, the sad fact is many of these police chiefs retain such risky COPs in their command, because to not do so would be even worse. "The lesser of two evils."
 
sear said:
It's not likely most chiefs of police thrill to the appearance of their own command incompetence, and they seek such controversy for the sheer aesthetic joy of it.
They have a job to do.
The have to populate their departments with the applicants available.
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And since police departments "promote from within" the Chief of Police comes from the group of applicants that end up being hired in the first place.

Don't forget the guy who sued the police department when he wasn't hired because he was too intelligent (he lost).
 
Shiftless2 said:
"the guy who sued the police department when he wasn't hired because he was too intelligent (he lost)." S2 #294
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:eek: Police chief job security? Don't hire anyone smart enough to be promoted ahead of "him"?
I'll put it in terms so simple even a New England fisherman will understand: we're scrod !

"The Devil's in the details."

"It is folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss." paraphrase Thomas Gray

No wonder Trump & minions are so happy !

Clear the (Guinness) record books. I may be on a 4 year long pout.
 
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