Some Insight Into What Cops In My Area Are Like

[Revoltingest]

Cops aren't here to "protect & serve".
Their goal is to arrest & beat civilians.
This example of brutal incompetence
is resulting in another lawsuit against
the city (Livonia) & the cops.

Note also that Walmart has a history of
falsely accusing people of shoplifting.

Walmart had to pay $2,100,000 to this gal.

 

[Revoltingest]

Detroit has long been riddled with corruption.
Crooked cops are just a portion of the problem.
Now it cost'm $7,500,000.
Detroit to pay $7.5M to man who claims cops switched bullets
Excerpted...
Detroit will pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a man who claimed police switched bullets to pin a murder on him in 1992.

Desmond Ricks, 56, was released from prison in 2017 after 25 years, thanks to gun experts, law students at the University of Michigan and his unwavering insistence that he was innocent.

“I'm not greedy. I'm thankful,” Ricks told The Associated Press after the City Council approved the settlement Tuesday.

“It's a blessing to be alive with my children and grandchildren. It was a blessing to not lose my life in there,” Ricks said of prison.

Ricks was convicted of fatally shooting a friend outside a restaurant in 1992. Police seized a gun that belonged to Ricks' mother and said it was the murder weapon.

In 2016, the Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school asked a judge to reopen the case. Photos of two bullets taken from the victim, Gerry Bennett, did not resemble the bullets that were examined by a defense expert before trial decades earlier.

The actual bullets surprisingly were still in Detroit police storage. Examinations showed they did not match the .38-caliber gun identified as the weapon.

A judge granted Ricks a new trial, but prosecutors in response dropped charges.

“It was layer upon layer upon layer of police misconduct. It was a truly egregious case,” said David Moran, director of the Innocence Clinic.

 

[Wildswanderer]

I don't have much experience with the police. I do know that having one over zealous game warden made me suspicious of all game wardens for awhile... but now I'm wise enough to understand that there's more good ones than bad ones and I suspect it's the same with the police.

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't have much experience with the police. I do know that having one over zealous game warden made me suspicious of all game wardens for awhile... but now I'm wise enough to understand that there's more good ones than bad ones and I suspect it's the same with the police.

Ya never know which kind of cop you'll meet.
Some would help you.
Some would **** you over for fun.
So it's best to avoid interactions.

 

[Wildswanderer]

Ya never know which kind of cop you'll meet.
Some would help you.
Some would **** you over for fun.
So it's best to avoid interactions.

Well a few years ago there were about six of them in my back yard. They did a fly over checking for pot and thought they spotted something in my backfield... I was quite surprised to step out of my shop and see six people with badges around their necks come across the yard... I live back off the roadway. When they explained what they were there for, I told them to go ahead and look... Of course it was within my rights to refuse and make them get a search warrant, but since I had nothing to hide, why bother?
Because I was calm and courteous, and they were also, it was a good experience overall.

 

[Revoltingest]

Well a few years ago there were about six of them in my back yard. They did a fly over checking for pot and thought they spotted something in my backfield... I was quite surprised to step out of my shop and see six people with badges around their necks come across the yard... I live back off the roadway. When they explained what they were there for, I told them to go ahead and look... Of course it was within my rights to refuse and make them get a search warrant, but since I had nothing to hide, why bother?
Because I was calm and courteous, and they were also, it was a good experience overall.

I'd require a search warrant.
It helps them develop good habits.
Also, it's my default reaction because in business
one finds that granting access without great care
can create legal liability. It's a landlord tenant thing.

Also, believing one has nothing to hide is naive.
You don't know what you have to hide until they
make something innocent into something suspicious.
Frosting from a donut looks like meth.
Report: Cops mistake Krispy Kreme donut glaze for meth, arrest man
Bird poop looks like cocaine.
Charges dropped against quarterback after bird poop on his car falsely tested positive for cocaine | National Post

 

[Revoltingest]

This guy thought he had nothing to hide.
Turns out he did.
So the cop robbed him.

 

[Revoltingest]

Cop assaults a teenager, threatens to beat him, & arrest him.
(Assault by flashlight reminds me of the Malice
Green case. Mr Green died. Cops murdered him.)
Why?
His scooter made a squeaking noise.
Cops aren't arrested for battery.
They're put on paid vacation.

Without ubiquitous phones & youtube,
cops would continue getting away with
criminal behavior, unknown to the public.
Bay City public safety director on administrative leave following citizen complaint

 

[Revoltingest]

Up in Saginaw (one of nastier places in MI),
a cop beats up a pedestrian who did nothing.
Good news!
The cop is being criminally charged.
(The victim isn't being charged with anything.)
I hope he gets a long prison sentence.
(I know I'll be disappointed.)

Trooper didn’t seem worried about getting in trouble over beating Saginaw pedestrian, victim said

As the beaten man was booked in the jail, he looked in the trooper’s eyes. The trooper seemed happy and unconcerned about getting in trouble.

www.mlive.com

Alas, the other cops who failed to intervene on behalf
of the victim being beaten should also be charged.

The video has legal analysis & the encounter.
There's some profanity & violence.

 

[Revoltingest]

I many of these videos, it's so obvious that cops
are just seething with contempt, hatred, & anger
towards civilians who cross their path.
WTF is wrong with those people!

 

[Valjean]

The internet's full of such videos, now that all sides carry cameras.
What's wrong is that, in the US, at least, policing attracts authoritarian and social dominant personalities.
My city's police department's been under a consent decree since 2014. The police remain heavy-handed, and it keeps getting renewed.

You're not likely to teach or train RWA or SDP out of someone, The traits are hard-wired. You'd need neurosurgery.
What we need is to stop hiring mental defectives. I don't know what kind of assessment criteria they use for prospective hires, but it clearly doesn't include a neurological assessment.

 

[Revoltingest]

The internet's full of such videos, now that all sides carry cameras.
What's wrong is that, in the US, at least, policing attracts authoritarian and social dominant personalities.
My city's police department's been under a consent decree since 2014. The police remain heavy-handed, and it keeps getting renewed.

You're not likely to teach or train RWA or SDP out of someone, The traits are hard-wired. You'd need neurosurgery.
What we need is to stop hiring mental defectives. I don't know what kind of assessment criteria they use for prospective hires, but it clearly doesn't include a neurological assessment.

Something occurred to me.....
There might be an interesting youtube video about
the cop who once worked for me, & was recently
arrested for having child porn on his computer.
(He was a cop up near Flint MI.)
He imagined himself a musician. This song shows
his victim mentality, & loathing for all the women
who avoid him. Very very creepy. Not someone
who should have a gun & a license to kill.

Hey @Shadow Wolf....check this guy out.
Tell me what you hear.

Spoiler: Much profanity.

 

[Revoltingest]

This happened up on Genesee county (where that child
porn defendant mentioned in other threads was a cop).
One cop shoots another without verifying his target.

 

[Revoltingest]

Man gets off bus, & walks to friend's house.
No crime committed.
Cop searching for 2 men who committed the crime
of cutting thru someone's back yard, decides to
chase down this man. Beats him so badly that
he loses his eye.
Lawsuit for excessive force is filed.
Taxpayers will once again take it up the old
poop chute for assault by a violent cop.

Man loses eye in alleged beating by Clinton Township officer, sues claiming excessive force

“He’s blind now for the rest of his life," Marko said. “He has a glass eye. He has permanent vision loss in that eye. They had to take his eyeball out.”

www.fox2detroit.com

 

[Revoltingest]

This is a good one about a white cop named "Lillywhite".
Drunk sheriff crashes his car while drunk & speeding.
Tells cop that he didn't know who was driving.
He's still Sheriff.
No charges filed....yet.

Imagine how massively irresponsible he is, yet he
has such tremendous authority over civilians....
- Speeding (99 mph).
- Falling down drunk.
- Guns galore in his possession.
- So utterly dishonest that he claims to not know who was driving.
And that the driver left the scene.

'I know I’m in trouble': Report shows St. Joseph County sheriff arrested for OWI claimed he wasn't driving

Newly obtain documents reveal Sheriff Mark Lillywhite claimed he was not driving the night he was arrested for OWI after a crash, despite witnesses identifying him as the sole occupant of the vehicle.

www.fox17online.com

 

[Revoltingest]

Update....
Sheriff Lillywhite was sentenced to a year probation for
driving while drunk 3 times over the limit, wrecking a
cruiser, carrying multiple weapons while drunk, lying
about who was driving. Any civilian would be behind
bars, even for a 1st offense with this many violations.

Lillywhite gets to keep his job, & avoid jail.
Let's hold public officials, especially those
with a license to kill, to a higher standard.

St. Joseph County Sheriff Sentenced To Probation For Drunk Driving Crash

St. Joseph County Sheriff Mark Lillywhite will be on probation for the next year after he pled guilty to two misdemeanor charges Monday morning in Kalamazoo County. He will be subject to random drug and alcohol testing

www.wsjm.com

 

[Revoltingest]

Cop is charged for a price switching scheme at MI stores
around the state. It was the store's (Meijer) investigation
that detected & proved this criminal cop's theft.

I wonder....if he'll steal from the people he's supposed to
protect, I wonder what he's done to people he's arrested?
Lied to frame them for crimes? Assaulted them?

The cop is now on paid administrative leave, which the
Lansing Police Department described as "holding our
officers to the highest standard". Really?
A civilian would be arrested, not given a paid vacation.
It's well known here that cops & judges here have great
privilege, & are held to a much lower standard. This
only reinforces contempt for the many crooked &
incompetent criminal cops who prey upon civilians.

Lansing police officer charged in 'price switching' scheme at Meijer stores

The officer is accused of being involved in a “price switching” scheme involving boxes of sports cards at Meijer stores in six counties.

www.lansingstatejournal.com

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Hey @Shadow Wolf....check this guy out.
Tell me what you hear.

I hear a ***** who should quit and profusely apologize to the members of Alice in Chains for having their logo in the background (they are absolutely nothing like that garbage).
Now if you'll excuse me I need to hit play again on Journey so I can resume listening to Steve Perry, a fine specimen of a man who lacks the ***** mentality of an incel.

 

[Revoltingest]

Cops love to beat people.
After doing so, they lie about what happened.
Fortunately, body cameras catch these dishonest cops.
At least, when the cameras are on.
What happened to the bad cop in this video?
He went to work for a jurisdiction.
At the end of this video, we can hear that no one
at his new jurisdiction (Eastpoint) cares that he
sucker punched a man, giving him a concussion
& herniated disk. "Everyone makes mistakes."

 

[Revoltingest]

It's well known that many cops drive drunk.
There culture is to think themselves above the
law, & to get lenient treatment if caught.
This video examines cases of falling down
(& in one case unconscious) drunk driving by
cops....cops who run the departments.
This tells us something awful about cops under
their supervision.