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The councils he did dissolve were about to resign in mass according to sources. Even the arts council that did manage to resign in mass with a fuck you letter was met with a "I was going to fire them anyway"
Oh you were joking. That was funny it just went over my head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Revolting if true:
https://medium.com/@ShaunKing/soul-s...k-7454a5a43924
Will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few days.
The first part of the article is extremely long-winded and annoying but when he gets to the meat of the matter it's pretty good. I just can't believe the scale of the settlements and the dismissed charges.
Shocking if true. I'm going to guess we won't find out for a very long time.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...cases-dropped/
Perhaps this is all just a sneaky solution to the problem of prison overcrowding.
The lawsuits alone seem kinda damning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
You might call this shocking:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates...usa-taser-911/
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/spo...169728632.html
They probably just wanted an autograph :o
Not seen the video. How can you "admit" to something that isn't true?
I admit that the sun rises in the west on Thursdays.
Sounds like Leave propaganda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...er-by-the-law/
Oh for fuck's sake.
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Do Police in America not carry batons? A British cop in similar circumstances would not only not be armed but if they were worried that a petite pregnant woman had a knife they'd be trained and able to defend themselves with batons rather than firing from a distance. Firearms should be a last resort not a first one.
You were the one dismissing police shooting statistics when the victim had a knife...like a month ago.
And Lewk thinks they should want MORE of these cops in constantly around their neighborhoods. She's the one who called them for assistance and they gunned her down.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/philly-po...163823054.html
Must be a "few bad apples" that elected this man as the head of the police union.
There's having a knife and having a knife. If a rampaging big man is carrying a knife and stabbing people - or in one specific example I posted here holding the knife to the throat of someone he was holding hostage before a sniper took him out - then that can be a good shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
If a scared, small, pregnant woman in her own home, who called the cops herselves for help "has a knife" then that sounds completely different. Context matters.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...11368117300554
For those who think body cameras are a panacea. As I keep on saying, you only need one Lewk in the jury.
Who has said panacea? I think we've said its an improvement.
https://5harad.com/papers/traffic-stops.pdfQuote:
In the case of search decisions, we explicitly test for discrimination by examining both the rate at which drivers are searched and the likelihood searches turn up contraband. We find evidence that the bar for searching black and Hispanic drivers is lower than for searching whites...
Interesting from your link:Quote:
Aggregating across location, searches of Hispanic drivers yield contraband 22% of the time, compared to 28%
for searches of white and black drivers. In computing these aggregate statistics, we include Mis-
souri and Maryland, which provide search and contraband data but not stop location, and Vermont,
which has too few stops of minorities to be included in our county-level analysis in Figure 4. The
outcome test thus indicates that search decisions may be biased against Hispanic drivers but not
black drivers.
Good for him standing up for himself :up:
http://us15.campaign-archive2.com/?u...&id=257593770b
And they say Americans don't think about the big questions in life.
I kinda hate you for prompting me to read several court cases to no real point by posting that.
Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
Let this be a lesson to you, you maniacI'll try to remember to just quote the bit that caught my attention in the future in the futile hope of saving you from your own self-destructive & compulsive thoroughness :downcast: :noob:
Police defending themselves against white knife-wielding maniac: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/...171299072.html
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...r-case-w501745
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New York's Civilian Complaint Review Board has substantiated two complaints against Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City policeman caught on tape in the infamous Eric Garner case. Rolling Stone has learned the board ruled that Pantaleo did in fact use a chokehold, and also ruled that Pantaleo restricted Garner's breathing.
This is the first real step toward discipline of officer Pantaleo in the three years since Garner's killing. While the ruling does not necessarily mean he actually will be disciplined by the NYPD, it does at least mean a group of city investigators has finally conceded that Pantaleo used a banned procedure and improper force.
[...]
The CCRB, after it completes its investigations, issues one of six recommendations. A "substantiated" finding means the investigators concluded that the officer both committed the act in question and was not justified in doing so.
The CCRB in the extant case involving Pantaleo issued two "substantiated" rulings. It ruled "PO Daniel Pantaleo used a chokehold against Eric Garner," and also that "PO Daniel Pantaleo restricted Eric Garner's breathing."
Pantaleo has a not-inconsiderable history with the CCRB.
Earlier this year, Pantaleo's CCRB records were leaked to ThinkProgress. They showed Pantaleo had faced 14 allegations of misconduct prior to the Garner case, with four of those having been substantiated. The worst punishment he received was two docked vacation days.
The CCRB leaker, incidentally, was fired after that incident.
Pantaleo is still on the NYPD payroll. In the first two years after the incident, he reportedly even earned as much as $40,000 in overtime.
[...]
In a study conducted by NYPD Inspector General Phillip Eure in the wake of the Garner case, it was found officers seldom, if ever, received serious discipline for using the dangerous procedure.
In nine of ten cases Eure looked at, the CCRB recommended the strongest possible discipline – i.e., departmental charges against the officer.
In each of those nine cases, the department ultimately opted for a lesser punishment, ranging from no punishment at all to the loss of five vacation days.
Article about said investigation:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national...ipline/384422/
#justiceforall #badapples
http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/...icle-1.3493228
Why are American cops so fucking contemptible?
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/com...-running-cops/
More bad apples. But I'm sure it's ok because the victim was a criminal.
I blame the approximately 9000 cop shows about maverick detectives who "play by their own rules".Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Yeah cops are more likely to be violent with an uncooperative criminal with an outstanding warrant for domestic violence who is armed with a gun because they think they're on a TV show, than because of the approximately 9000 cops injured on the line of duty every two months.
That information was not known at the time, nor was it relevant to the appropriateness of tazing a pregnant woman repeatedly.
Well she has been arrested for felony assaulting an officer. Her background of domestic violence certainly wasn't known about but goes to her character. There's 4 videos apparently, I hope they come out as appropriate and either she gets prosecuted if she is guilty or the officers are if it wasn't appropriate.
Believe it or not, criminals still have rights.
Which don't extend to what she was arrested for (assaulting a Police Officer).
You mean what she was arrested for over a day later? That's the sort of thing you get arrested for at the time. . . except when it's an action the department takes after the fact to try and provide cover for questionable police action earlier.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
http://www.gainesville.com/news/2017...gainst-hot-cop
American cops get their training on reddit.