Police Corruption Thread

[Teelie]

Doesn't surprise me. Guess Texas or Florida, and be right 99% of the time in these cases of legal abuse.

 

[KevanG]

Wait until every shift change then rob the town blind in under a day.

 

[SV Fan]

Once chick feeling up another, where's the video footage? :P

 

[BeserkerHilf]

Without getting dragged into this whole debate, there are two things I noticed in the videos:

1.) In the second video, the first girl looks to be laughing with the female cop over something. Looked like a light hearted moment between the two.
2.) The officer, using the same rubber glove, performs the cavity search in anus-vagina order, again wearing the same glove for both inspections. Good job.

 

[warhorse78]

Doesn't surprise me. Guess Texas or Florida, and be right 99% of the time in these cases of legal abuse.

And California. Rodney King beating anyone?

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Those weren't coffins at that FEMA camp. They were actually grave liners. Not sure if that's any less sketchy.

http://metabunk.org/threads/debunked-fema-coffins-plastic-grave-liners.904/

Regarding the deer story, that is some of the dumbest **** I've ever heard. The county officials should be ashamed of itself.

I agree, still sketchy, but the comments go a long way to provide sources and other info regarding these and other stuff related to the FEMA camp theory which seems to help debunk it. I don't see the point of our government trying to do such a thing, and yet I do know how shady the government can supposedly be.

If we're just making this the "awful things police are doing" thread, we should just merge this with the other thread about the women in Texas getting sexually harassed.

 

[Project862006]

v for vendetta is gonna become a reality soon

 

[Tanin]

England Prevails ...

 

[Xeno]

I agree, still sketchy, but the comments go a long way to provide sources and other info regarding these and other stuff related to the FEMA camp theory which seems to help debunk it. I don't see the point of our government trying to do such a thing, and yet I do know how shady the government can supposedly be.

If we're just making this the "awful things police are doing" thread, we should just merge this with the other thread about the women in Texas getting sexually harassed.

I don't mind the threads being merged; the article about the Texas cops conducting body cavity searches on female motorists came to my attention when I was reading an about another instance of police abuse. There seems to be an epidemic of it all over the country lately.

I have to point out, however, that the women in Texas weren't sexually harassed, they were sexually assaulted. One of the female troopers has already been charged with several counts of sexual assault, while the other is under investigation for it and may be charged later. It's a hell of a state of affairs when female cops are sexually assaulting women in public while their male peers watch.

 

[Thundercrack85]

You know, the biggest problem is just a near total lack of oversight and consequences. Police officers would behave a hell lot better, if they faced real consequences for their actions.

Perhaps mandatory penalties? They should be held to a higher standard.

 

[Mike_D202]

It seems that there are different standards and polices/procedures for almost every single law enforcement department across the U.S. Everything should be uniformed and processed so everything is the same across the board. Never would a state trooper do something like that here, and they shouldn't in other states unless it's for a damn good reason.

 

[Xeno]

You know, the biggest problem is just a near total lack of oversight and consequences. Police officers would behave a hell lot better, if they faced real consequences for their actions.

Perhaps mandatory penalties?

Their unions would never allow that.

I didn't realize until recently that after a police-involved shooting, the officers who fired the shots cannot be questioned by investigators for 48 to 72 hours after the shooting, or even longer. The same is true if an officer kills a citizen in some other manner, for example by taser. Those are the rules here in Maryland and I've read that similar rules exist elsewhere in the country. When investigators are finally allowed to question officers, they have invariable got union reps and union-supplied lawyers in the room and valuable time has been wasted.

Why are cops given such leeway? The police themselves always say that the first few hours of an investigation are critical, but when they are implicated those hours tick away without statements being taken while the facts are fresh. (And before stories can be threshed out so that they reflect best on the officers.)

 

[Shikamaru]

Why are cops given such leeway? The police themselves always say that the first few hours of an investigation are critical, but when they are implicated those hours tick away without statements being taken while the facts are fresh. (And before stories can be threshed out so that they reflect best on the officers.)

Because as we should know by now, the bad side of human nature dissapears entirely from the second you put on that badge. It automatically transforms anyone into saints that can do no wrong.

 

[Mike_D202]

Because as we should know by now, the bad side of human nature dissapears entirely from the second you put on that badge. It automatically transforms anyone into saints that can do no wrong.

No it's because a majority of police officers are good people and do their jobs respectively, as opposed to the group of bad apples that only make the news.

 

[random_havoc]

*robot-like voice* There are no corrupt police. They all perform their duties admirably and honourably.

(They can see what you're typing here nowadays guys! What are you doing!)

 

[Mike_D202]

*robot-like voice* There are no corrupt police. They all perform their duties admirably and honourably.

(They can see what you're typing here nowadays guys! What are you doing!)

I thought you were smart enough not to generalize groups of people, perhaps I was mistaken.

 

[random_havoc]

No it's because a majority of police officers are good people and do their jobs respectively, as opposed to the group of bad apples that only make the news.

See, I used to agree with this until I watched the dozens of citizen recorded videos about the G8 Summit in Toronto a few years back. Hundreds of officers all abusing their power, arresting people for no reason, assaulting peaceful people (many that weren't even protestors). One man had a fake leg and was tackled by three swat team-like officers who then pulled off his leg and dragged him away (on the concrete). Another was a human rights lawyer who was standing there listing off all the rights that were being violated right within their view, and suddenly a police officer came and dragged her away.
When the biggest police force in our country is willing to abuse their powers en masse I can't assume the majority are decent human beings any more.

 

[random_havoc]

I thought you were smart enough not to generalize groups of people, perhaps I was mistaken.

Sorry, maybe that came across wrong, I wasn't trying to make fun of you I was trying to poke fun at the Prism NSA program and how the hordes of information they're gathering are likely to be released to other government agencies in the future.

 

[NickNitro]

This thread should just be called The New Jersey Police Department Thread, I swear every time I hear about a corruption sting its coming out of Jersey.

 

[Ant-manic]

Reading the title I thought for sure it was gonna be a male cop, damn.

a town cop where i live was recently arrested for breaking into houses and raping women.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I still won't say that most cops are bad (at least in the developed world), but any profession that offers people a ton of power, and requires almost no restraint is going to get a lot of bad apples, and as anyone who has been to a fruit market knows, bad apples can quickly spoil the rest.

 

[Teelie]

Most cops aren't bad or start out that way. The few that are bad are a huge problem though. They get all kinds of special exemptions, cover and help from their fellow officers who themselves may not be corrupt or abusive but they also aren't willing to confront or speak up about those who are abusing their status.

That's the problem when you have a close-knit organization with tight bonds and a lax enforcement of standards in the membership. No cop wants to rat out another cop or be the one responsible for getting another one in trouble. And when one cop does take a stand against it, he's stigmatized and a dishonor to the other police officers who view him as a traitor.

 

[Piper Maru]

Anyone see that movie Serpico?

 

[jacobed]

See, I used to agree with this until I watched the dozens of citizen recorded videos about the G8 Summit in Toronto a few years back. Hundreds of officers all abusing their power, arresting people for no reason, assaulting peaceful people (many that weren't even protestors). One man had a fake leg and was tackled by three swat team-like officers who then pulled off his leg and dragged him away (on the concrete). Another was a human rights lawyer who was standing there listing off all the rights that were being violated right within their view, and suddenly a police officer came and dragged her away.
When the biggest police force in our country is willing to abuse their powers en masse I can't assume the majority are decent human beings any more.

that's still just a tiny group compared towards how many police officers there are in this world. An overwhelmingly majority of officers do their job properly. Unfortunately you never hear all the stories about them doing their job good.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Given rampant police corruption around the world, I wouldn't make that statement.

But in America, at least, I still like to think that most cops are not bad.