I blame CSI

Inconceivable! On the one year anniversary of Freddy Gray's death, police in Baltimore shoot a 13 yr old armed with a toy gun.

http://nyti.ms/1qVMqzd

Boy runs away, officers fear for their lives.

California deputies charged in beating captured on video

Alameda County (contains Oakland) sheriffs followed a suspect in a car chase from the east bay into SF and beat him with batons (caught on video) when they finally caught him.

Probably mentally ill person attacks 4 people with a knife . One is killed, three are injured.

Article in German

A tragedy but it would have been a bigger tragedy if he had access to a gun. Strict gun laws can't prevent all tragedies. They can make sure that the ones that can't be prevented result in less deaths.

Lol "accidentally turned on"

That was supposed to be in the cold, dead hands thread.

srsly

This is cool. Guy gets a ticket for parking legally, uses the city's open data to determine the city had been ticketing people illegally to the tune of millions, notifies the police, and they update their procedures

http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/1441...keting-legally

Guys gets out lays on the ground and 3 out of the 6 cops do nothing to cuff the guy, just start punching. I guess they're there to get in the state mandated punches and kicks

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/us...smtyp=cur&_r=0

WaPo doing some more of God's work. It's a long read and goes through a lot of cases but the general theme is the police reports were complete lies that made the police look like heroes, until footage was found to contradict the claims or they tried and hide that there was footage at all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-over-footage/

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201...aJM/story.html

Eh....cant easily tell from the video but did he like smash his window with the umbrella? Thats what the cop implied. So he tackled him and then brought him to be arrested. Seems not that bad

He scuffed the window. The report said the scuff came off when they inspected it.

Ok. Cop doesnt necessarily know that, thinks he got his property damaged by some guy jaywalking. Its an overreaction but its not like he ****s the guy up. He basically just gets to do something that the rest of us might wish we could which is make the guy accountable and embarrass him a little.

Obviously I'm not super gung-ho Team Cop in basically any situation but this one isnt really worth getting riled up about imo. Final verdict: meh

yeah if there were actual damage the cops wouldn't be redacting the officer's name

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...ings/84687378/

Cliffs:
In 2008, Davontae Sanford, a 14 year old with learning disabilities, confessed to a multiple murder. Shortly thereafter, a professional hitman was arrested and confessed to multiple different murders, including the one Sanford confessed to committing. Despite this, and the hitman in question's willingness to testify, prosecutors have thus far held fast to the idea that Sanford committed the murders, or possibly was an accomplice to the professional hitman. (?) Oh, and of course the kid had a terrible attorney who I believe is currently suspended from practicing law due to giving terrible advice to his clients.

Disappearing a couple cop cars to prevent the release of dash cam footage. Impressive.

I'm actually kind of surprised there's any kind of legislative effort to clean this up in south carolina.

Need to make it a LOT easier to get rid of dirty cops, even if not able to jail them. How about:

Dashcams/bodycams to be on at all times. If the event one is turned off or of a "malfunction", officer loses all presumption of innocence IRT losing his job.


Keeps presumption of innocence for criminal liability, of course. But a pattern of missing footage can be introduced as evidence of knowingly covering up a crime.

There was a study released last week showing the ability to turn off a camera increases the abuse by police. If they can turn them off at all then its worse than not having them at all.

I don't really get why they should be able to turn them off in the first place, but ensuring they don't is the only game in town. If kicking them off the force without pension is the solution then it makes sense.

That Washington Post article was great. I think part of problem, though, is this mentality:

And this is from someone who is being critical of the cop in question (though a former cop himself).

Why do they have to be "really careful"? At the very least, take the same level of care that is exercised when investigating any other crime. If you've got video evidence that is not even remotely consistent with the statement made by the perp, then he's lying. That's all there is to it.

When people are accused of crimes that they are guilty of, they often lie. It doesn't matter that they're a police officer. If anything, cops are more likely to lie (as they're less likely to face repercussions). No extra care is required for any reason.

You can't have political aspirations and a law degree while showing any kind of weakness to the men in blue.

The off duty cop in a pedestrian case on a previous case:

"I just just testing my partner's reflex skills"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...GVL/story.html

He has a gun!!!
#notintendedtobeafactualstatement