Look no further than Baltimore to see what a world withoutthe warrior cops
or look at the article above where it breaks down all of the payouts the states have to pay to the victims of police violence.
Boston-$36 M, (2005-2015)
Chicago $521 M 2004-2014
Cleveland-$8.2 M 2004-2014
LA. $101 M- (2002-2011)
Oakland-$74 (1990-2014)
New York-$348 M 2006-2011
Philadelphia $40 m (2009-2014)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7423386.html
the warrior cops are being bailed out by the tax payers yet repubs aren't saying about that bailout.
To think all of this started because an unarmed man was illegally arrested man and died in police custody via a spinal cord injury. Because people severe their spine in everyday interactions with police. At least in Baltimore where that was the 3rd instance where a man was paralyzed after being in police custody. Both times they were rewarded massive payouts.
Every cop needs body cams. To protect the citizen and protect themselves as well, in he said-he said situations.
Have you checked the US gun death stats in the last five years.have you checked your violent crime stats in the last five years
'Massive scandal'Yeah, if only we could have a massive child rape, child abuse, and human trafficking scandal like they do in the UK
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-s...shire-28939089
Or steadily increasing violent crime rates, for that matter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...and-Wales.html
Denver Ex-Cop Says He Was Fired for Refusing to Destroy Video Evidence of Abuse of Inmate
The inmate was paraded naked in handcuffs
A former Denver internal affairs investigator says he was fired after refusing to destroy video evidence showing cops subjecting an inmate to inhumane treatment, CBS Denver reports.
Brent Miller, who worked for the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for nearly 26 years before retiring, took a job with the Denver Sheriff Department as a civilian internal affairs investigator to help clear up a backlog of internal affairs cases. One of the cases involved complaints by inmate Christopher Colbruno. Sheriff’s deputies were transporting Colbruno to the Denver Health Medical Center when he defecated on himself at some point. Deputies removed his clothing before he entered the hospital. He was handcuffed but was walked through the hallways naked. Hospital staff believed Colbruno was subjected to inhumane treatment and filed a complaint with the Denver Sheriff’s Department.
According to reports, Miller and another investigator obtained video of the incident on May 11. He was soon approached by Captain Paul Ortega, who leads the Sheriff Department’s internal affairs bureau, and asked if he uploaded the video yet. Miller said he didn’t.
“(Ortega) told me don’t upload it they’re making it go away,” Miller told CBS Denver. “Who is they? He said the sheriff then told me to get rid of the video. Do not upload it get rid of the video and I immediately told him that’s not ethical to get rid of evidence in a case.”
Ortega, according to Miller’s account, said that he agreed but, “That’s the way it is.”
Miller said he refused to destroy the tape and gave it to another investigator so that it would not be destroyed. On May 12, he said Ortega requested a meeting in his office.
“I was told I was being terminated by the Denver Sheriff Department because I was too opinionated and they wanted to go in a different direction,”
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...ter1037201&t=3
Is the FBI Flying Secret Spy Planes in Your City?
The FBI is operating a number of low-flying planes across the country with video and cellphone surveillance technology. All of these operations are taking place behind fake companies which serve as fronts.
Early this month, Adam Clark Esteswrote about how Baltimore residents had spotted a number of su ious aircrafts buzzing overhead during the protests over Freddie Gray's death. Last week independent journalist Sam Renegade reported on the fake company angle, writing that the United States Department of Justice was operating a number of aircrafts which were registered to corporations that do not exist.
Renegade wrote that, "The flight patterns of the aircraft indicate they are most likely conducting surveillance, much like the controversial aircraft caught flying circles over the city of Baltimore which has seen many protests recently."
The story has now cracked the mainstream media and an AP review has discovered that over a recent 30-day period, the agency flew aircraft in over 30 cities, across 11 states. U.S. law enforcement officials have admitted that the program is taking place but the FBI has carefully avoided mentioning details about the flights in court do ents.
"The FBI's aviation program is not secret," spokesman Christopher Allen pointed out in a statement, "Specific aircraft and their capabilities are protected for operational security purposes."
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...ter1037260&t=9
‘Nobody knows what happened': Florida inmate mysteriously dies after ride in sheriff’s van
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/nobo...e+Raw+Story%29
Underage Girl Brushes Off Cop’s Flirting Attempt, So She’s Swarmed by Cops, Groped and Arrested
A teenager from the Bronx was recently paid $45,000 after she was wrongfully arrested and sexually harassed by a police officer. The officer was also assisted by a number of other NYPD cops who helped him take her into custody.
The incident occurred on November 4th of 2013 when a young girl named Natalie Erlich, who was 17-years-old at the time, was walking home from school. During her walk, she was approached by Officer José Peinan and another cop who were not in uniform and did not identify themselves as police officers.
According to court do ents, Peinan made several attempts to flirt with the girl but was immediately brushed off, much to his disappointment. After the rejection, Peinan became aggressive with the girl and arrested her on bogus charges. The officer claimed that since the girl asked if he was a police officer, that she had “blown his cover.”
“I had on a camouflage hat and [Peinan] had on camouflage pants. He said, ‘We match.’ I brushed him off and I laughed,” Erlich told The New York Post. After that, she said that she attempted to walk away and avoid him, and that is when he became more aggressive.
“He said something slick like, ‘Where are you going?’” she said, adding that she told Peinan that she was going home and asked if he was a cop.
When the officer replied by saying “maybe,” she then told him that was “a cop answer,” and at that moment a swarm of officers descended upon the girl, and Peinan told them to handcuff her and take her into custody.
When asked why she was being arrested, Peinan told her that “You know why, you’re being a smartass.”
Erlich and one of her friends were then taken to jail and not released until 11 a.m the following day.
When she was finally released, Erlich decided to file a lawsuit against the officers and the police department for wrongful arrest and sexual harassment. According to the lawsuit, the girls were arrested because the officer was“angered at having his advances rebuffed.”
The lawsuit also states that the Erlich was groped by police while they were arresting her.
To avoid more details coming out in court, the city agreed to settle the case with a $45,000 hush payment.
Officer Peinan is currently the target of 3 other lawsuits and has reportedly not received any disciplinary action.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ops-groped-and
DEA Wiretaps Triple Over Nine Years
DEA wiretaps have tripled over the last nine years. Of particular concern: It is increasingly bypassing the le III requirements by applying for wiretaps in state courts.
USA Today reports (no link due to ******** video)
The DEA conducted 11,681 electronic intercepts in the fiscal year that ended in September. Ten years earlier, the drug agency conducted 3,394.
The statistics are here.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2015/6...ver-Nine-Years
I always wondered how the DEA won the War on Drugs.
No Charges For Denver Cops Who Shot And Killed Unarmed 17-Year-Old
officers came up on the car from behind and fired four times into the driver's-side window.
The passenger also said the officers did not yell any commands before they fired, and that the car may have struck the officer after Hernandez was shot and lost control of the vehicle.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/je...+%28TPMNews%29
of course, unarmed. cops shooting into a car with several other girls. In cop think, murdering the kid was justified.
‘Paramilitary thugs': Colorado man livid after SWAT blows up his entire home in pursuit of shoplifter
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/para...e+Raw+Story%29
John Oliver: The bail system destroys the poor and turns bounty hunters into reality show ‘vigilantes’
On Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver took on the devastating impact our bail system has on the poor, locking many of them up regardless of guilt and potentially destroying their lives.
Saying, “increasingly, bail has become a way to lock up the poor, regardless of guilt,” Oliver before explaining that your options when arrested is to “Go to jail, plead guilty to avoid waiting in jail for a trial, or pay a bail bondsman to front the bail costs.”
As pointed out here, this can lead to the poor often taking the guilty plea even when they’re innocent, because the alternative may be worse, even though a guilty plea can have an impact down the line when applying for a job.
“Poor people are regularly choosing to admit guilt just to get out of there and that isn’t good,” Oliver said. “The only time that’s appropriate is in a Catholic confessional. ‘What do you mean is there anything else? I don’t know, I masturbated into a kiwi fruit. Is that what you wanted to hear? Just let me leave, I have stuff to do.'”
As a public defender explains, people incarcerated because they can’t afford bail risk losing their jobs, or even spots in public housing or shelters, meaning a short stint in jail can completely ruin their lives.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/john...e+Raw+Story%29
Wrongly Imprisoned for Three Years, Kalief Browder Commits Suicide
A 21-year-old New York man who spent three years in a city jail as a teen and was subjected to beatings by guards but never charged with a crime has committed suicide, the New York Daily News reports.
Using an air-conditioning cord, Kalief Browder hanged himself at his family’s Bronx home Saturday night. Before he took his own life, Browder told his mother, “Ma, I can’t take it anymore.”
In 2010, Browder was arrested after a teenager accused him of robbing him of his backpack, which Browder denied. His family didn’t have the $10,000 bail money to get him out of jail, so the teen stayed at Riker’s Island awaiting a trial that never arrived. After 33 months, Browder was offered a plea deal that he ended up rejecting. During that time, he spent more than 400 days in solitary confinement, endured beatings by jail guards, was abused by other inmates, and attempted suicide several times.
The robbery charges were dropped and Browder was released in May of 2013.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ommits-suicide
South Carolina Police Officer Who Shot Unarmed Man Charged With Murder
http://www.nationalmemo.com/south-ca...d-with-murder/
Police Officers in Schools Are Proving to Be a Nightmarish Reality in the U.S
On May 8, at Kissimmee Middle School, a 13-year-old boy and his mother were meeting with the school resource officer, officer Mario Badia.
The meeting followed a domestic disturbance at the home of the boy. During that meeting, Badia claimed that the 13-year-old attacked him and that he had to use force.
However, after school officials saw the surveillance footage of the incident, they called the Kissimmee Police Department. According to the department, they launched an internal investigation and found probable cause to arrest Badia and charged with child abuse.
According to the arrest affidavit,
Badia tried to get the boy’s attention by reaching for his chin so he would look in his direction.
Police said the boy stepped away from Badia and reacted to the hand coming at his face by trying to block it with his arm.
Badia then shoved the boy in the chest, knocking him off balance, according to the report. Surveillance video allegedly shows Badia body slam the boy, who was not resisting, along with yelling at him.
In an interview with WKMG,resident, Ezekiel Morgan explained that Badia was confrontational and would often get in the face of other students.
“He’s disrespectful, he doesn’t know how to talk to these kids, so I’m glad that happened to him,” explained Morgan.
Badia was booked into the Osceola County Jail and his bond was set at $5,000. He immediately posted the bond and has been placed on paid vacation, pending the results of the pending criminal and internal investigation.
Apparently the video of Badia brutally assaulting a child wasn’t enough to get this officer fired, or even suspended without pay.
Police officers in schools are proving to be a nightmarish reality in the US. Just in the last year we’ve seen a school cop who raped 22 boys.
We’ve seen an autistic 6th grader assaulted by a cop become a convicted felon for kicking a trashcan at school.
...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...er1037376&t=19
why would there be charges for that?
He won't reply he's too embarrassed. I asked him if he even watched the video before posting it and he never returned. Pulled a classic boutons.
Jim Crow, for BIG profits and huge destruction
When Bail Is Out of Defendant’s Reach, Other Costs Mount
Dominick Torrence, who has lived in this city all his life, has a long rap sheet for dealing drugs but no history of violence. So when he was charged with disorderly conduct and rioting on April 28, a night of unrest after Freddie Gray was fatally injured in police custody, he was shocked to learn the amount he would need to make bail: $250,000, the same amount as two of the officers facing charges over Mr. Gray’s death.
Although a bail bondsman would charge only a fraction of that, normally 10 percent, for many defendants $25,000 is as impossible a sum as $250,000. “That’s something you
get for murder or attempted murder,” Mr. Torrence, 29, said from Baltimore Central Booking. “You’re telling me I have to take food out of my kid’s mouth so I can get out of jail.” He spent a month in jail on charges that would later be dropped.
Defense lawyers, scholars and even some judges say the high bail amounts set for some Baltimore protesters highlight a much broader problem with the nation’s money-based bail system. They say that system routinely punishes poor defendants before they get their day in court, often keeping them incarcerated for longer than if they had been convicted right away.
“It sets up a system where first there’s the punishment, and then there’s the opportunity to go to court for trial,”
The money bail system is supposed to curb the risk of flight by requiring defendants to post bond in exchange for freedom before trial. But critics say the system allows defendants with money to go free even if they are dangerous, while keeping low-risk poor people in jail unnecessarily and at great cost to taxpayers.
For those who cannot afford to post bail, even a short stay in jail can quickly unravel lives and families. Criminal defendants are overwhelmingly poor, many living paycheck to paycheck, and detention can cause job losses and evictions. Parents can lose custody of their children and may have a difficult time regaining it, even when cases are ultimately dropped. And people in jail who are not guilty routinely accept plea deals simply to gain their freedom, leaving them with permanent criminal records.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/us/when-bail-is-out-of-defendants-reach-other-costs-mount.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003&_r=0&referrer =
WATCH: Frustrated Texas cop smashes car window after driver insists speed limit is only a suggestion
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/watc...e+Raw+Story%29
If a sovereign citizen voted, would he voted Repug or Dem?
Georgia Woman Charged With Murder For Taking Abortion Pill
Even opponents of abortion say it may be hard for Georgia authorities to follow through with prosecuting a woman who was charged with murder because she took a pill to terminate her pregnancy.
"I have been involved in the pro-life movement for well over 20 years, and I'm not aware of a situation like this ever," said Genevieve Wilson, a director of the anti-abortion group Georgia Right to Life. "I'm very surprised by it."
Kenlissia Jones, 23, of Albany was being held at the Dougherty County jail on charges of malice murder and possession of a dangerous drug. Albany is about 180 miles south of Atlanta.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ge...+%28TPMNews%29
FBI Successfully Stonewalls Inspector General Into Irrelevance By Withholding Timely Section 215 Do ents
from the you-can't-oversee-what-you-can't-actually-see dept
The FBI doesn't just stonewall FOIA requesters. It also stonewalls its in-house investigator. Remember all those deferrals to "lawful authority" and "rigorous oversight" the agency makes when not commenting on controversial surveillance programs? Those really don't mean anything if you lock out the oversight and prevent his office from verifying whether surveillance is being carried out in accordance to laws and FBI policies.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been fighting a courageous, but losing, battle against FBI secrecy. As the head of the DOJ's OIG office, you'd think FBI officials would throw a small amount of deference his way. But no. They don't. It has obstructed his investigative work "for years," leading to this sort of thing:
[Horowitz] said the refusal to grant routine requests stalls investigations, including a recent one on FBI material witnesses, such that officials who are under review have sometimes retired or left the agencies before the report is complete.
The FBI won't even release an organizational chart to him. Horowitz took these complaints to Congress earlier this year in hopes of prompting FBI do ent production by threatening its annual budget.
Section 218 of the Appropriations Act does not permit the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Justice to deny the OIG access to records in the custody of the Department unless in accordance with an express limitation of Section 6(a) of the IG Act. The IG Act, Section 6(a), does not expressly or otherwise limit the OIG's access to the categories of information the FBI maintains it must review before providing records to the OIG. For this reason, we are reporting this matter to the Appropriations Committees in conformity with Section 218.
This, surprisingly, failed to have any effect -- not because the FBI might have deduced Horowitz was actually serious about obtaining the long-delayed do ents, but because if there's anything government agencies fear more than a loss of power, it's a loss of funding.
Marcy Wheeler points out that -- during the ruckus surrounding the expiration of Section 215 --the FBI again passed several of its self-imposed deadlines for do ent delivery.
The OIG has sent four letters to Congress to report that the FBI has failed to comply with Section 218 by refusing to provide the OIG, for reasons unrelated to any express limitation in Section 6(a) of the IG Act, with timely access to certain records in ongoing OIG reviews. Those reviews are:
- Two FBI whistleblower retaliation investigations, letter dated February 3, 2015, which is available here;
- The FBI do ents related to review of the DEA’s use of administrative subpoenas, letter dated February 19, 2015, which is available here;
- The FBI’s use of information derived from collection of telephony metadata under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, letter dated February 25, 2015, which is available here; and
- The FBI’s security clearance adjudication process, letter dated March 4, 2015, which is available here.
As of March 31, 2015, the OIG do ent requests were outstanding in every one of the reviews and investigations that were the subject of the letters above.
Of particular importance is the delay of do ents related to the FBI's use of Section 215 collections. Obviously, having the chance to review this before the vote on reauthorization would have been preferable. If there were any questions about the FBI's involvement, or its use of the collected data, these observations could have potentially played a key role in the provision's renewal, not to mention contributed to the debate surrounding the USA Freedom Act.
Obviously, the FBI preferred to keep legislators in the dark about its participation in Section 215. An ill-informed legislature is more prone to rely on fear-mongering and other baseless assertions. With nothing stating otherwise, the FBI is free to operate under the illusion that its use of the program is by-the-book and that the program itself is effective and useful.
Horowitz is one of the few government officials willing to stand up to the FBI. Unfortunately, it hasn't resulted in better behavior by the agency. Apparently, the FBI feels it does best with minimal oversight and isn't inclined to let anyone -- not even its in-house inspector -- in on its domestic surveillance tactics.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...o ents.shtml
When you promote to and anoint yourself as one of A Few Good Men, you are above and beyond all laws.
http://us.cnn.com/2015/06/11/us/tami...ion/index.html
Judge suggests that two cops be charged for the death of Tamir Rice.
They pulled up on a kid playing with a toy gun and with warning out warning him to drop the weapon, shot him, then lied about it. The City then blames the death on the kid. Not to mention one of the cops tackled his sister to the ground after she came to the scene.
Black men are target practice: America’s grotesque history of racist games
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/12/blac...games_partner/
Grand jury indicts Virginia cop for fatally shooting mentally ill black man ‘like a dog
A grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia indicted a local police officer on Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of a mentally ill man last June, WTKR-TV reported.
The panel opted to charge Officer Michael Carlton Edington, Jr. on one charge of voluntary manslaughter for shooting and killing 35-year-old David Latham.
The grand jury selected the manslaughter charge instead of two heavier charges, second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/gran...an-like-a-dog/
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