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Are Even Half Of Cops Honest...Not Corrupt?

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member

Are Even Half Of Cops Honest...Not Corrupt?​


Interesting article from today's Guardian: FBI arrest California police officers involved in racist text messages scandal
Officers were exposed referring to Black people as “gorillas” and bragging about beating up local residents and fabricating evidence. Some group texts included supervisors. In April, it was revealed that more than 45 officers, representing nearly half of Antioch’s police department, were implicated in racist behavior.
Color mine.
Prosecutors have been forced to drop or dismiss dozens of cases that involved the officers who were exposed, and the local county has assigned attorneys to review thousands more files, according to the publication.

“Not only do we have officers who have fundamentally racist ideas and disrespect for the community, but they’re dishonest, too, and that goes to the very integrity of the criminal justice system,...”
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Cop kidnaps, assaults, & dumps man in a field.
Left for dead?
Reason unknown.
No official record for this off-the-books vicious beating.
Farmer eventually finds injured man lying in his field.
Cop's supervisor covers it up, suggesting a problem in
the entire department. Pattern of bad cops getting
shuffled from department to department arises.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
What results when a man is wrongfully attacked by a cop in SC?
All (but one who stopped it) of his cop buddies allow & try to
justify the attack. Upon discovering their error, the cops all
continue to detain the man, illegally search his car, & charge
him with multiple bogus crimes.
The good news: The battering cop was arrested, charged,
& convicted.
The bad news: Sentenced only for time served. This was
far far less of a sentence than faced by the man he beat up.
Cops continue to not be held accountable for egregious
illegal violent acts.

For more detailed info....
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Sometimes the worst cop in a department is
highly respected by fellow thugs, & is even put
in charge of training new cops.

For those interested, this video shows questioning
of a 20 year veteran who is obviously unsuited to
carry a gun & a license to kill. She's prone to
mental breakdowns, hostile towards civilians,
scatterbrained (unable to perceive & answer
direct questions), dishonest on her reports,
emotionally unstable, & so fearful of civilians
that she's ready to kill a compliant unarmed
man in swimming trunks.
Is she prosecuted for violating rights? No.
But at least she's fired. Now she'll be a problem
in some other jurisdiction.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Cops have powerful lobbies.
Few politicians are willing to rile these "heroes".
And cops' unions often support bad cops, not
that despised general public.
Yup. It is long over due the police behaviors be reviewed by an external review board, similar to how colleges have an Institution Review Board (IRB) that became a necessity in the face of the abuses and tortures done in the name if research.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
That too.
Worse, cops in charge will hire cops despite
knowing their bad record.
What we could use is a Brady List on steroids.
Currently, it's too weak & too passive.
We need....
- Aggressive seeking out of bad cops by both
government & civilian groups, & posting their
info.
- Criminalize hiding the record of a bad cop.
- Issue alerts when cops with bad records are hired,
& require investigation.
- Issue warnings to communities with bad cops,
akin to Meghan's Law.
- Never let cops investigate themselves. There
should be a fully independent organization with
arrest powers exercised immediately.
- All police video & audio recordings, & reports
must be immediately available to this authority
without cost & redaction.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
In Phoenix, there are no good cops. They all
cooperate to break the law, to violate civilian
rights, & to shield fellow cops from accountability.
Prosecutors are also in on this criminal organization,
helping cops, & violating the Brady Rule.

For those interested, here is an illustrative example...
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Sheriff has for many years used his office
to get illegal subpoenas for personal use.
Local government at all levels just happily
went along with it.
We can expect that this environment of
illegality rolled downhill to all deputies.
Excerpted...
But his requests had nothing to do with alleged wrongdoing, or any criminal investigation, according to a previously undisclosed report obtained by The New York Times and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today. Instead, Sheriff Bailey tapped into the power of a grand jury at least eight times over a year to spy on his married girlfriend and the school employee with whom she was also “unfaithful,” the documents show.
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Mr. Guest, now a U.S. congressman and chairman of the House Committee on Ethics, decided he could not pursue the case further because of conflicts of interest, including his yearslong friendship with the sheriff. He told two local judges what he had discovered and passed his investigation on to the state attorney general. And that’s where the matter ended.
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For seven years, every elected official who learned of the allegations kept them secret from the public, leaving citizens of Rankin County in the dark, even as they twice voted to re-elect Sheriff Bailey. He is on the verge of another re-election, having won the Republican primary in August and facing no opponent in November.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
In Pueblo CO, there are no good cops.
All protect each other & friends from being
held accountable for violent attacks on civilians.
No investigation.
Repeated false testimony.
Hiding body cam footage.
Only probation for 2 for this severe beating.

Much more info is in this video.
(Some profanity.)
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Man is at his own home.
Cop thinks he's suspicious.
Man calmly identifies himself, stating this his home.
But man make a mistake by asking if he's detained.
Cop immediately assaults him, choking him, arresting
him, & jailing him, causing lasting injuries.
His department insists the arrest was proper.
Prosecutor charges him for resisting arrest.
This is standard procedure in Monterey CA.
The result?
Public outcry causes prosecutor to back down.
Taxpayers pay man $200,000.
Monterey cops still say that assaulting the man was proper.

 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Cops get warrant to raid an 80 year old mans home
to search for meth. Other residents are detained.
But cop enters Eugene Mallory's bedroom, & immediately
kills him in his bed. Cop claims that Mallory approached
him with a handgun. But this contradicted the
coroner finding Mallory still in his bed.
No meth found.

 

Heyo

Veteran Member
Cops get warrant to raid an 80 year old mans home
to search for meth. Other residents are detained.
But cop enters Eugene Mallory's bedroom, & immediately
kills him in his bed. Cop claims that Mallory approached
him with a handgun. But this contradicted the
coroner finding Mallory still in his bed.
No meth found.

I've always advocated for stricter gun control, especially thorough background checks. I think I'll have to revise or at least amend that opinion. Just don't let cops have guns and death by firearm may sink dramatically.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I've always advocated for stricter gun control, especially thorough background checks. I think I'll have to revise or at least amend that opinion. Just don't let cops have guns and death by firearm may sink dramatically.
Guns just one risk posed by bad cops.
Hire much better people, train them far better,
supervise them more closely, & hold them fully
accountable for wrongful acts.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
In Tennesee, it appears that there are no good cops.
Bad cops are tolerated by superiors, & even defended
for doing illegal searches as standard procedure.
What happens when a cop repeatedly violates the
law so much that the prosecutor will no longer
use his testimony. Bad cops remain on the job,
& are even promoted.

For those interested....
 
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