Abuse of Power Thread (Cops, Governments, Etc.) - Part 1

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[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This thread is to expose the corruption from those in power that choose to weild their power in a way that abuses others instead of helping those that are in a lesser position than them. Most cops are good people doing a job and most Governments at least put on an appearance that they are helping those they serve. This thread is to shed light on those that would abuse their power and cause harm or unrest to the people they serve.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I wonder how well those body cameras are going to work in Florida. It's one thing when we see what's going on (which is sometimes hard because of all of the shaking and bouncing) but then if we need those cameras to rely on the audio, that could be a problem. In Florida, it's agains the law to record someone's voice without their consent, and is often why when we have to call up a credit card company or FPL to despute a bill, the phone call starts with "this call is being recorded for quality training purposes".

That's a good point, not ure how that would work. I'm assuming there will eventually be some type of federal law that makes police use them and if that's the case the federal law would trump any state law. And again they would only be used for official purposes, not like making Cops or anything

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I did not think when I started this thread a little less than a year ago it would make it to another part this quick. Hopefully things will need to get reported less and less here

 

[Golgo-13]

The way things are happening now, i see no shortage of these kinda stories slowing down anytime soon…unfortunately.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Well if you come across any abuses of power be it Cops, Governments, Corporations or just a crappy boss feel free to post it here. I'm a firm believer in the more that we shed light on the problems in the world the more we increase or chances of getting rid of it

 

[warhorse78]

[YT]F1rgU-iXVTo[/YT]

So, what do you think about this. Some crazy woman attacks some guy on a train, and he's the one that gets arrested.

 

[Golgo-13]

[YT]F1rgU-iXVTo[/YT]

So, what do you think about this. Some crazy woman attacks some guy on a train, and he's the one that gets arrested.

I understand why it was their first response as he was the aggressor when they showed up but was he released after the cops saw the tape?

If so, where he messed up was chasing her. He should have done what he was going to do while she was attacking him, then it would she self defense. Where he messed up was that he chased after her, after she dis-engaged....

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Police Officer Shoots and Kills Naked, Unarmed Black Man Near Atlanta

A white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man at an apartment complex in Chamblee, Ga. Monday afternoon. The man has been identified as 27-year-old Anthony Hill; he is believed to have suffered from mental illness.

Officers were called to the The Heights at Chamblee apartment complex, police told reporters, after Hill was reported "acting deranged, knocking on doors and crawling around naked."

When police arrived at the scene, Hill reportedly charged at an officer, who after stepping back and warning him to stop, opened fire, shooting Hill twice. Hill died at the scene.

DeKalb County Public Safety Director Cedrid Alexander told Fox Atlanta that it's "likely mental illness played some role in Hill's behavior."

Alexander also told the New York Times that the officer, who has since been placed on administrative leave, also had access to a Taser and pepper spray.

An investigation into the shooting has been launched by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/10/us-usa-police-georgia-idUSKBN0M60CI20150310

From this initial report it seems like he went straight to the lethal option which is very bizarre.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

NYC Jail Doctor Ordered Inmate to Throw Severed Finger in Garbage

In June, a Manhattan Detention Complex inmate named Rudolph Richardson was using the bathroom in his cell when a guard shut an electronic door on his left middle finger, partially severing it. Richardson sought medical attention, which he found in the form of a doctor who ordered him to throw his own finger in the trash, according to a lawsuit.

The complaint, reported on DNAinfo and Firedoglake, was filed in a Manhattan federal court in January. DNAinfo gives the awful details:

Dr. Landis Barnes, an employee of the city's jail health contractor, Corizon,briefly looked at Richardson's hand and told him the finger could not be saved.

"Incredibly, Dr. Barnes informed Richardson that he should throw the detached portion of his finger in the garbage," the complaint says.

Richardson refused and asked for ice or a solution to preserve his finger, according to the complaint.

"Dr. Barnes reluctantly fulfilled this request," the complaint says.

Richardson demanded that his wound be properly wrapped so the bleeding would slow. He then asked to fill out an incident report, and was held in a locked room after he filled it out.​

Ultimately, Richardson was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where his finger was reattached.

Corizon, the Tennessee-based for-profit company that handles medical care for all New York City jails, has a history of malpractice and abuse, and complaints against it have recently become harder for the city to ignore. This year, the family of a teenaged Rikers inmate who died of a torn aorta and was prescribed nothing more than hand cream has sued the company, as has the family of a father who bled to death after his ulcer allegedly went untreated by Corizon's doctors.

But civil action isn't likely to make Corizon's behavior change: The provider's $400 million contracts with the city contain an indemnification clause protecting it from malpractice lawsuits, meaning if the mourning families win their cases, it will be taxpayers handing over money, not Corizon.

Fortunately, change may be on the way: At a City Council hearing last week, several councilmembers reamed Corizon out over inmate deaths, and a representative of the health department told DNAinfo that the city is pursuing other healthcare options. Corizon's contracts are up at the end of the year.

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...red-throw-severed-finger-garbage-lawsuit-says

I don't doubt this is true, the medical care in most jail facilities is woefully inadequate

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

CIA Helped the Justice Dept. Build Spy Planes to Snoop on Phones

There are rules barring the CIA from getting involved in matters of domestic surveillance. But here's some news: The CIA played a key role in developing a sketchy domestic dragnet phone snooping technology used by the Justice Department, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Last year, we found out that there was a secret surveillance program in the US that used devices called "dirtboxes" to mimic cell phone towers. By putting dirtboxes in small airplanes, US Marshals can redirect phone traffic to hunt for suspects. In tricking phone data to redirect to dirtboxes so that law enforcement could hunt for suspects, these spy planes briefly conduct a kind of widespread data dragnet, even on people using their phones from within their homes.

They can also interfere with phone calls of whatever ordinary citizens happen to be near-ish to maybe-criminals. This is similar to Stingray spying devices used by the FBI and local police, which also screw up bystanders' cell service.

Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the CIA helped develop this program, which is similar to the technology used to catch terrorism suspects abroad as well as Stingrays:

The cooperation between the CIA and the Justice Department on this technology began a decade ago, when the spy agency arranged for the Marshals Service to receive more than $1 million in gear to conduct such surveillance, said people familiar with the program.​

CIA and Justice Department officials say that this close-knit, coordinated decade-long project doesn't violate rules against the CIA participating in domestic surveillance.

Right. Sure.

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/ci...chnology-1426009924-lMyQjAxMTA1NzEyMDIxODAxWj

Sounds sketchy as hell and I'm not surprised in the least at this point

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The CIA Has Been Desperately Trying to Break Apple's Encryption System

The Intercept is reporting that Central Intelligence Agency researchers have been waging a multi-year campaign to break the security systems used by Apple on its devices.

Top-secret documents obtained by the website via Edward Snowden describe that the researchers have been "targeting essential security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple's devices." The report explains that they used both "physical" and "non-invasive" techniques in an attempt to decrypt Apple's software systems. Over the last few years, researchers had apparently developed tools that could be used to extract encryption keys using both software and hardware—though details of how they worked remain unclear.

The researchers also created a modified version of Xcode, Apple's software development tool which is used to code the apps that appear on the App Store. In the leaked documents, it's described how a version of the software was created that could be used to build backdoors into software—providing the ability to obtain passwords, read messages or even "force all iOS applications to send embedded data to a listening post." Eek. There's no explanation of how this compromised version of Xcode would be used in the wild, however—or any reference to it being used in anger. Elsewhere, researchers developed a modified OS X updater that could install a keylogger to capture similar information.

The Intercept explains that many of these projects were described in detail at a secret annual 'Trusted Computing Base Jamboree', which has been running for almost a decade at a Lockheed Martin facility in northern Virginia and is now sponsored by the CIA. Apparently the events see security researchers meeting to discuss how they could expose and abuse flaws in a range of household and commercial electronics—but clearly Apple was a major target. An internal NSA wiki explained that the conference provided a forum for "presentations that provide important information to developers trying to circumvent or exploit new security capabilities" to "exploit new avenues of attack."

We may be able to take some small shred of comfort form the fact that the documents don't explain how successful the attempts on Apple's encryption systems were. Neither do they explain if any of the developed techniques were ever used to secure intelligence. That may be in part because of Apple's high standards. As Matthew Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University, told The Intercept: "Apple led the way with secure coprocessors in phones, with fingerprint sensors, with encrypted messages. If you can attack Apple, then you can probably attack anyone."

We may not need to worry about Apple's systems being compromised by CIA research—though Apple declined a request from The Intercept to comment on the news, so we can't be sure. But one thing is certain: the documents serve to remind of the unquenchable thirst amongst government officials to see what they can't easily see; to peer at our secrets and learn ever more about us. With that kind of determination, our secrets can't remain secret for long.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/

I'm totally sure they only want to target those pesky terrorist, everyone knows they love Apple products. It's not like a large chunk of the population uses their tech or anything like that

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Arizona Completely Abandons Its Community Colleges

Community colleges are the most democratic forms of higher education, and, you could argue, the most important. Don't tell that to the state of Arizona.

The trend in America is towards acceptance of the fact that there should be more public funding and support for community colleges, which educate nearly half of our nation's undergrads during any given year, and tend to be much more accessible to working people and minorities than four-year colleges are. It is just common sense for states to direct funds to their community colleges to help make them as open as possible. It is an obvious public good.

With that in mind, consider what the brilliant loons who run state politics in Arizona are doing right now: they have cut state subsidies for two community college districts that serve the state's three most populous counties down to zero dollars. Zero. Inside Higher Ed notes that just five years ago, these two districts were getting a combined $70 million from the state; now, they're scheduled to get nada.

This means that Republican state legislators have chosen to cut support for entities that educate hundreds of thousands of the type of Arizona students least able to pay increased tuition and fees. (One of the districts, seeking to avoid charging its students more, has gone begging to corporations for support, essentially marketing themselves as an explicit corporate-training center rather than what you might think of as a "school.") And what principle were these brave legislators defending as they zeroed out these education funds? From the Arizona Republic: "The deeper higher-ed cuts appear tied to Republican legislative leaders' rejection of a $6 or $7 increase in auto registration fees at the Department of Motor Vehicles."

That's some smart legislatin'.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/12/arizona-unprecedented-defunding-community-colleges

That's freaking ridiculous

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

State Rep. Gave His "Possessed" Kids Away to a Child Molester

An Arkansas politician is defending his decision to "re-home" two of his young adopted daughters by sending them to live with a man who ended up molesting one of them last year.

The story broke last week after police received an anonymous tip that Arkansas state representative Justin Harris and his wife Marsha—who run a pre-school together—had been cashing state adoption subsidies checks for children they weren't taking care of.

In 2013, the Harrises adopted the two young sisters, who—they were reportedly warned—grew up around meth addicts and endured significant emotional and sexual abuse. And less than a year later, the couple decided to to give the girls back, claiming they were just too emotionally damaged to keep.

The state said no, so Harris reportedly decided to "re-home" them, a largely unregulated process that is currently legal in Arkansas. Reports the Hamilton Spectator:

At a press conference last week, Justin Harris said the adopted girls' behavioral problems caused him to fear for his biological children's safety:

One of his new daughters crushed a family pet to death, and his three biological sons started sleeping in their parents' bedroom because they were scared.

But when the politician approached state human services' officials, Justin Harris said the agency refused to help with the girls' problems and threatened to charge the Harrises with abandonment if the children were returned.​

The Harrises ended up sending the two girls to live with with Eric and Stacey Francis, college friends of Harris's wife. But although Eric had no criminal record at the time, he would soon be convicted of sexually assaulting the elder sister, who was six at the time.

Harris has publicly blamed the DHS for the debacle, claiming they saddled him with emotionally disturbed, violent children and tacitly approved the re-homing. (DHS employees say the opposite, claiming Harris forced the adoption against their recommendation by wielding influence over the group's director, whose budget Is within his purview.)

But babysitters for the family say the girls [referred to by the pseudonyms "Mary" and "Annie"] weren't violent—the problem, they say, was Harris and his wife believed they were possessed by demons. According to the Arkansas Times:

Chelsey Goldsborough, who regularly babysat for the Harrises, said Mary was kept isolated from Annie and from the rest of the family. She was often confined for hours to her room, where she was monitored by a video camera. The reason: The Harrises believed the girls were possessed by demons and could communicate telepathically, Goldsborough said. Harris and his wife once hired specialists to perform an "exorcism" on the two sisters while she waited outside the house with the boys, she said.

Multiple sources who interacted with the family confirmed Goldsborough's account that the Harrises believed the children were possessed, and another source close to the family said that Marsha Harris spoke openly about the supposed demonic possession.​

In fact, Goldsborough tells the Arkansas Times, the family was obsessed with "demonic possession and telepathy."

Goldsborough said the Harrises showed her "a picture of [Mary] where they're like, 'You can see the demon rising from her back,' and it just looked like a little 6-year-old to me." [Mary was 4 or 5.] The separate source close to the Harrises reported seeing a video that Marsha Harris said showed a demon interacting with one of the girls. The source said demons were an "obsession" with Marsha Harris.​

The girls have since been adopted by a new family, who say the Harrises' allegations of violent behavior don't add up:

"We are aware of the very public conversation going on about events pertaining to our daughters," they tell the Arkansas Times. "We are deeply grieved over Justin Harris' accusations toward our daughters in order to self-protect; it is inexcusable. Like the Harts, we also have two small dogs and the girls have only been gentle towards them. These girls are happy, healthy children who have gone through things no child should ever have to endure. Since they have been home with us, they have adjusted beautifully and are thriving in our home with unconditional love and patience. We are truly amazed at our daughters' ability to love and bond with us, given all they have experienced. They are both extremely protective toward each other and love each other with all their hearts...We choose to forgive the Harrises and hope they will truly follow Christ in humility and repentance for the mistakes they made in our daughters' lives. Due to the sensitivity of our daughters' story, and out of respect for them, we are asking the public for privacy during this time."

http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/ca...applied-pressure-to-adopt/Content?oid=3725371

Damn these kind of a**holes make me sick, to think these psychos are in charge of children really pisses me off

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Drunk Secret Service Agents Crashed Car Into White House Barrier

They may not be very good at their jobs, but at least they're not boring? Yet another pair of Secret Service agents had to be pulled off the rotation this week after they allegedly got drunk and crashed their government vehicle into a White House barricade.

According to the Washington Post, the agents—Mark Connolly, a high-ranking member of Obama's detail, and George Ogilvie, a senior supervisor, had been drinking at a "late-night party" last week when they crashed outside the White House.

Officers on duty who witnessed the March 4 incident wanted to arrest the agents and conduct sobriety tests, according to a current and a former government official familiar with the incident. But the officers were ordered by a supervisor on duty that night to let the agents go home, said these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal matter.​

The Department of Homeland Security is handling the investigation, a Secret Service spokesperson confirmed, telling reporters, "If misconduct is identified, appropriate action will be taken based on established rules and regulations.''

President Obama is reportedly "aware of the allegations" and presumably "thankful to be alive" despite his security detail's best efforts to ensure otherwise.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...7ff-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html?hpid=z1

Makes you wonder if the Secret Service has always been this off the chain or they just stopped giving a crap when Obama was elected

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

How The Sugar Industry Continues To Subvert Public Health Policies

A recent analysis of nearly 320 internal sugar industry documents from 1959 to 1971 shows how the industry sought to influence the setting of U.S. research priorities during that time. Disturbingly, it's a strategy that continues to this very day.

Forty or 50 years ago, at least in the United States, tooth decay was seen as the major health problem associated with consumption of refined sugars. Back then, many dentists (probably unsuccessfully) warned patients away from sugar, and public health researchers sought ways to reduce the toll of caries, the most prevalent chronic disease in children and adolescents. Few, if any, were looking into the relationship between refined sugars and obesity or diabetes or heart disease. Now, in a remarkable piece of dental-political forensics, researchers at the University of California San Francisco have brought to light the forces that shaped oral-health policy in that era.

In a research article appearing in PLOS Medicine this week, Cristin E. Kearns, Stanton A. Glantz, and Laura A. Schmidt mined an archive of industry papers long buried in the library of the University of Illinois, Urbana, as well as ancient documents at the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR). They skillfully wove a public health whodunit that we didn't even know had been done to us, showing how sugar-industry executives and the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF, which later became the Sugar Association) sought, successfully, to influence NIDR policy.

The documents reveal a virtual capture of the NIDR by an affected industry. In the late 1960s NIDR began planning a National Caries Program (NCP) to fund research on the prevention of caries. The cane and beet sugar industry, understandably, was concerned that the committee might recommend measures to reduce sugar consumption, which even it had recognized as contributing to caries. Hence, the industry mounted a campaign to ensure that research focused not on the public health goal of reducing sugar consumption, but instead on prophylactic measures like vaccines, dextranases, and other approaches to reducing caries.

To achieve their goal, the industry formed a task force to influence NIDR. The membership of the industry committee was almost identical to that of NIDR's; nine of 11 members of NIDR's Caries Task Force Steering Committee also served on the ISRF's Panel of Dental Caries Task Force. Remarkably, several high officials of NIDR served on the industry committee. The revolving door was also swinging. Dr. Philip Ross, who had been chief of the NIDR/NIH Research Grants Section from 1963–1965, was elected president of the ISRF in 1968. He went on to coordinate meetings with NIDR.

Kearns, Glantz, and Schmidt found that 78 percent of the industry's 1969 submission to NIDR was directly incorporated into NIDR's 1971 request for contracts. And industry prevailed: NIDR's 1971 invitation for research proposals did not request proposals for research on the cariogenicity of foods or reducing sugar consumption. Out of hundreds of grants rewarded, only one or two grants related to the cariogenicity of foods.

Between 1970–1999, consumption of caloric sweeteners (mostly sugar and high-fructose corn syrup [HFCS]) increased by 25 percent in the US (USDA data here). Whether more research on the cariogenicity of foods would have tempered or even reversed that trend—and reduced the prevalence of caries, obesity, and other diseases—is impossible to know.

Fast-forward now to recent years. Fuelled in part by the doubling of childhood and quadrupling of adolescent obesity rates in the last 30 years, research on the health effects of refined sugars has increased greatly, with the focus shifting from tooth decay to more lethal diseases. Studies have strongly implicated refined sugars, especially in beverage form, in the causation of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The strongest evidence fingers fructose (half of the sucrose molecule and about half of HFCS) as the major culprit.

That research has spurred campaigns by consumer groups, the American Heart Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and local and state health departments to rein in sugar and sugar-drink consumption. Strategies have included getting sugar drinks out of schools, levying excise taxes on sugar drinks, requiring warning notices on sugar-drink containers, restricting levels of sugar in beverages, and mounting publicity campaigns. Those efforts (and increased sales of bottled water) have reduced per-capita consumption of carbonated sugar drinks by 25 percent and of caloric sweeteners by 15 percent since 1998.[*]

In response to those campaigns, industry has ratcheted up its political efforts. Most prominently, the soft-drink industry has spent over $125 million opposing local, state, and federal soda-tax proposals, prevailing everywhere but in Berkeley, CA. A tax of one cent per ounce would reduce sales by about 10 percent.

The industry is also fighting two upcoming federal actions. The US Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services are now doing their five-year updating of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The government's advisory committee of academic experts recommended that sugar consumption, especially from beverages, be limited to 10 percent of calories (current consumption is about 15 percent). It also recommended exploring the use of "pricing" (i.e., tax) approaches to reduce consumption of sugar drinks.

If those recommendations are included in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans they will strengthen the Food and Drug Administration's proposal to include an "added sugars" line on the Nutrition Facts label. A Dietary Guidelines recommendation of a 10 percent limit on refined sugars would also provide a basis for the FDA to set a Daily Value for refined sugars and include a "%DV" on food labels. That could make high-sugar foods, especially beverages, look like poor nutritional choices.

The sugar and soft-drink industries are already opposing these federal actions. The Sugar Association and American Beverage Association filed voluminous comments with the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee challenging the tentative finding about sugars' and sugar drinks' contributions to chronic diseases. The sugar group charged, for instance, that the committee's conclusions were "opinion-based" and not "science-based." Industry lawyers have even contended that including "added sugars" on nutrition labels would be unconstitutional. If those tactics are more visible than those chronicled by Kearns, et al., rest assured that industry will also be working behind-the-scenes inside the halls of government just as hard as 40 years ago.

http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2015/03/10/sweetening-their-deal/

Kind of scary to think how much money they are willing to spend to ensure people continue harming themselves

 

[Teelie]

Politicians and government paid to look the other way by an industry is far too prevelant.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Arizona Completely Abandons Its Community Colleges

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/12/arizona-unprecedented-defunding-community-colleges

That's freaking ridiculous

I think the desert is beautiful but I would never live in Arizona.

Too many idiotic rules and beliefs.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

U.S. Post Offices Have Installed Hidden Spy Cameras to Film Customers

Did you know that the United States Postal Service has its own police force? It's true. While the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is typically tasked with looking into mailbox vandalism and mail fraud, an investigation in Denver reveals that they're also installing hidden cameras at post offices and spying on Americans.

This postal surveillance program sounds shady as hell. FOX31 Denver found one camera disguised as a utility box that "was positioned to capture and record the license plates and facial features of customers leaving a Golden Post Office." Within an hour of the local news station's discovery, the Postal Inspection Service had ripped it out of the ground, though the force later admitted that it had a "number of cameras at their disposal."

So why on Earth is the postal service spying on people? That's the shadiest part: The USPS won't say. FOX31 filed multiple FOIA requests with multiple agencies. "None of the agencies could provide a written data retention policy," the station reports. This is exactly the kind of warrantless surveillance and data collection that's been spreading across post-9/11 America, and the fact that the government won't talk about it is a big problem. It's not just the NSA that's doing the spying, either. It's the postal service, too!

Read the full report and watch the corresponding segment at FOX31's website. Oh, and keep it in mind the next time you go to the post office. Uncle Sam might be scanning your license plate and storing it in a database under a mountain.

http://kdvr.com/2015/03/11/mysterious-spy-cameras-collecting-data-at-post-offices/

What the hell?

 

[warhorse78]

Politicians and government paid to look the other way by an industry is far too prevelant.

You should see the stuff the politicians are putting up with in Florida with the big sugar. Who cares if they keep polluting the waterways because they are too lazy to find better ways for irrigation, as long as they keep paying them politicians to keep quiet.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

NYPD Caught Editing Wikipedia Articles on Police Brutality

Looks like the long arm of the law is trying to diddle Wikipedia into submission. Members of the NYPD are trying to scrub Wikipedia's entries about police violence.

Capital New York traced edits to IP addresses registered to the NYPD. Looking at which entries the NYPD tried to alter highlights a disturbing pattern. These are blatant attempts to bend the narrative on horrific state-administered brutality:

Computer users identified by Capital as working on the NYPD headquarters' network have edited and attempted to delete Wikipedia entries for several well-known victims of police altercations, including entries for Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo. Capital identified 85 NYPD addresses that have edited Wikipedia, although it is unclear how many users were involved, as computers on the NYPD network can operate on the department's range of IP addresses.​

It isn't the first time people in power have been caught trying to make the crowdsourced encyclopedia reflect their reality. People have tracked the edits Congress makes to Wikipedia. But in that instance, most of the edits were for weirdo entries like "horse head mask" rather than articles that directly referred to Congressional misconduct.

The NYPD, in contrast, has made edits that are clearly in its best interest, attempts to whitewash the bloodiest moments in contemporary NYPD screw-ups by literally re-writing history and recasting critical moments of police violence as irrelevant blips:

On Nov. 25, 2006, undercover NYPD officers fired 50 times at three unarmed men, killing Sean Bell, and sparking citywide protests against police brutality. On April 12, 2007, a user on 1 Police Plaza's network attempted to delete the Wikipedia entry "Sean Bell shooting incident".

"He [Bell] was in the news for about two months, and now no one except Al Sharpton cares anymore. The police shoot people every day, and times with a lot more than 50 bullets. This incident is more news than notable," the user wrote on Wikipedia's internal "Articles for deletion" page.​

The matter is "under internal review," according to an NYPD spokesperson.

Police IPs were also linked to entry changes on stop-and-frisk, police misconduct, fictional NYPD officer Andy Sipowitz, and the band Chumbawumba.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/artic...ages-bell-garner-diallo-traced-1-police-plaza

Pretty damn sketchy

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA spends some time editing wiki also.

Some ideas are too subversive to go untouched.

 

[HauntedKnight]

A white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man

I bolded two words that are completely unnecessary. The story is absolutely relevant, but when I see this I no longer care. It just sounds like someone trying to start another problem.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I bolded two words that are completely unnecessary. The story is absolutely relevant, but when I see this I no longer care. It just sounds like someone trying to start another problem.

To be fair it is pretty damn relevant considering how often it happens, I can think of one case off the top of my head were a black officer shot a white man and then was later charged with a crime. So you can piss and moan all you want but it's very relevant

 

[HauntedKnight]

To be fair it is pretty damn relevant considering how often it happens, I can think of one case off the top of my head were a black officer shot a white man and then was later charged with a crime. So you can piss and moan all you want but it's very relevant

Lots of people get shot, black and white, each year. It doesn't mean every article needs to contain the races. That's how you make it a problem is when you highlight the instances where it looks bad because of race. I wish someone would do a study of of how many people needed to be shot rather than just the fact that it happens. Yes, there is always going to be the bad stories where it was totally wrong, but not everything is a race issue just because that's the hot issue right now.