The Warrior cops are out of control

[boutons_deux]

Court fees trap ex-inmates in a prison of debt

From 2002 to 2009, Hill racked up two felonies for drug possession and unlawful possession of a firearm, two misdemeanors for driving with a suspended license and about 15 minor traffic violations. He’s avoided run-ins with the law ever since, yet his fear of getting stopped and arrested is understandable. It’s not a “guns and drugs” charge he’s worried about; it’s the unpaid fines and fees.

Although his crimes were victimless — no one was assaulted, no property damaged or stolen — Hill owes Spokane County and the state of Washington some $14,000 in fines and fees. The state’s annual interest rate on judgments is a borderline-usurious 12 percent.

In Washington, a state whose progressive reputation masks a tough-on-crime undercurrent, defendants and prisoners are charged “user fees” that fund the state and local systems designed to put them away.

Those who do not or cannot pay are at risk of arrest and reimprisonment.

It’s a national trend: In nearly every state, offenders pay for court costs, representation by a public defender, jail and probation, and fees are on the rise.

The county clerk’s offices that depend most on these sums routinely refer to defendants as “customers” [PDF].

Since 2003, Spokane County, home to about half a million people, has more than doubled what it collects in these legal financial obligations, or LFOs, from criminal defendants.

Under pressure from ex-felons and advocates, the newly elected county clerk and prosecutor have vowed to focus on collecting res ution (money to compensate victims) while making other fees less punitive, and a recent Washington Supreme Court decision may offer additional relief. Statewide, those with felony records owe an average of nearly $2,500 in LFOs [PDF].

Hill’s debt has bulged to the point that he can no longer keep track of how much he's being billed for which convictions. Every month, he pays $75 toward the $10,000 or so he owes for old misdemeanors and traffic tickets, accounts handled by Valley Empire Collection, a private agency contracted by the county’s lower level courts.

Until he was asked to inquire for this story about his total obligations to Valley and to the Superior Court clerk’s office, which handles his felony debts directly, he had no idea what the total was. But he knew the drill: “As soon as I miss one, they can issue a warrant for my arrest.”

http://america.aljazeera.com/multime...n-of-debt.html

[boutons_deux]

Solitary Confinement: Punished for Life

The interviews, conducted over the last two years as part of a lawsuit over prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay, have not yet been written up as a formal study or reviewed by other researchers. But Dr. Haney’s work provides avivid portrait of men so severely isolated that, to use Dr. Haney’s term, they have undergone a “social death.”

Sealed for years in a hermetic environment — one inmate likened the prison’s solitary confinement unit to “a weapons lab or a place for human experiments” — prisoners recounted struggling daily to maintain their sanity. They spoke of longing to catch sight of a tree or a bird. Many responded to their isolation by shutting down their emotions and withdrawing even further, shunning even the meager human conversation and company they were afforded.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/04...ness.html?_r=0

btw, I think the for-profit PIC charges states and Feds more for prisoners in solitary vs not solitary.

[Clipper Nation]

WATCH: Kansas cop goes off on f*ck-filled rant, threatens to arrest man for asking him a simple question

Williams, “So how come you didn’t detain her — just out of curiosity — since she did just admit that she had her TV that she stole from…” at which point Williams interrupted him.

“Why the f*ck am I talking to you?” Williams asked.

“Because I was just curious,” Jacobs replied.

“Okay. I don’t need anything from you. This is not my f*cking jurisdiction. You understand that?” Williams said.

“No, I don’t. I don’t have a clue. I don’t know what is going on,” Jacobs replied, and then the officer goes off, asking Jacobs for his ID and telling him to step down from the curb

“Say something else to me and we’ll see where this goes. Open your f*cking mouth, say something else,” Williams said. “This is not my — take your f*cking sunglasses off.

Hat off, give me your identification. What’s your f*cking name? You want to spend the night in the f*cking pokey because you can’t shut your f*cking mouth?”

After Jacobs answers “No,” Williams sent him on his way with a parting “Enjoy your f*cking walk.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/watc...e+Raw+Story%29

"Oh noes! He said the word ' ' and was mean to someone! Federalize the police!"

[pgardn]

http://www.gq.com/story/lapd-killed-...d-homeless-man

https://www.odmp.org/search/year

We kinda find what we want. This of course does not excuse the outrageous behavior I have posted about cops committing horrid crimes.

Hey boys...

Who wants to be a cop?

*cue cricket noises*

[pgardn]

hands up don't shoot!!!!

blue lives matter!!!

Yes we see the truth of that "hands up don't shoot" BS
Using that phrase smears the innocents who have been killed by the police.

[pgardn]

when will the police THUGS stop arresting, harassing, brutalizing murdering innocent, unarmed people?

So the Policeman who was shot was a thug?
Really?

Go tell his family you twisted dog.

[pgardn]

This still does not address the fact that our public is divided over the role of our police.

[boutons_deux]

So the Policeman who was shot was a thug?

you said that, I didn't

[boutons_deux]

'He Probably Has AIDS' -- Cops Yell Anti-Gay Slurs as they Brutally Beat Innocent Gay Man



Louis Falcone was lying in bed on the night of June 19, when four NYPD cops showed up to his front door, pulled him outside and began beating him.

The incident was over an alleged noise complaint. According to Falcone, his brother showed up at 4:30 in the morning “obnoxiously drunk,” and the pair got into a heated argument.

“We had words,” Falcone said. “I was yelling at him; he was yelling at me.”

However, the argument quickly ended, his brother left, and Falcone was attempting to go back to sleep when the four public servants showed up to dole out a beat down.

“As I’m talking to them through the screen door, they’re saying to come outside,” Falcone told the NY Daily News. “I said, ‘For what?”

Then, according to Falcone, his dog began barking, at which point the cops threatening to kill it.

“The cops said, ‘Get your dog out of here or I’ll f***ing kill it!’” Falcone says. “I was like, ‘What do you mean you’re going to kill my dog?’”

As he was attempting to tell his dog to get back, he was pulled outside by one of the cops.

“They threw me against the concrete in front of my house,” he said. “My first reaction was to try to get up a little bit.”

A neighbor from across the street captured the incident on video.

In the video, you can see an officer go into the house and Falcone is dragged out into the yard. All four officers then proceed to pile on top of him and begin their attack. At one point, an officer can be seen stomping Falcone.

It was at this point, according to Falcone that the officers began yelling their phobic slurs. While the only audible sounds on the short video, are Falcone’s screams of agony, he says as they beat him they called him a “f**”and a “f****t.”

Falcone recounted the beating to the NY Daily News, “While I was on the ground, I had mud and blood in my mouth,” he said. “One (of the cops) said, ‘Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the f****t.’”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...er1040341&t=21

Just 4 isolated bad apples. All other cops are wonderful public servants.

[Trill Clinton]

white supremacist race soldier cop is protected by the system of white supremacy, yet again

[boutons_deux]

California cops say video of them insulting disabled woman during raid violated their privacy

Three police officers in Santa Ana, California, have taken legal action in an attempt to block the use of surveillance video reportedly showing them snacking on marijuana-laced edibles and making derogatory comments about a disabled woman during a raid on a marijuana dispensary, the Orange County Register reported.

The unidentified officers, along with their union, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, filed a lawsuit last week to prevent the department's internal affairs investigators from using the video in their investigation of the May 26 raid of the Sky High Collective dispensary.

The footage reportedly shows the officers trying to disable all of the cameras in the Sky High Collective facility, after which some played darts and ate what was believed to be edible products containing marijuana. Another officer was captured in the video insulting a customer.

"I was going to punch her in the f---ing nub," she said, the Huffington Post reported.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/cali...e+Raw+Story%29

[Trill Clinton]

when white victims get killed, the white "all lives matter" crowd are silent. you never hear the all lives matter . the only time the piped up was when dillon taylor was killed and they thought it was a black cop who shot him. when it came out the cop was white, they got silent again smh.

[Quetzal-X]

Murderous asshole devils . Good thing its an isolated case.

[spurraider21]

white supremacist race soldier cop is protected by the system of white supremacy, yet again]

uncle tom settling for 35K instead of taking it to court and exposing the system

probably got some decent rims and sneakers with the money tho

[TheSanityAnnex]

when white victims get killed, the white "all lives matter" crowd are silent. you never hear the all lives matter . the only time the piped up was when dillon taylor was killed and they thought it was a black cop who shot him. when it came out the cop was white, they got silent again smh.

why won't whites riot

[Trill Clinton]

[boutons_deux]

‘I ought to kill you': Ex-Ohio police chief charged with beating wife day before her suicide

A former Ohio police chief was charged this week with battering his wife one day before she reportedly hung herself in 2013.

Clark Gast, the former police chief in Aberdeen, said he discovered his wife, Laura, hanging from a ceiling fan in 2013. Investigators later ruled the death a suicide and said that that Clark Gast was not a suspect.

Family and friends, however, told WCPO at the time that they believed Laura Gast was murdered.

An autopsy report found that the ceiling fan she was hanging from “was not reachable from the chair” and that the noose was tied with multiple knots “she could hardly reach.”

The night before Laura Gast died, her 10-year-old daughter had taken photos showing bruises on her mother’s forehead, back and neck.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/i-ou...e-her-suicide/

[Trill Clinton]

[boutons_deux]

Part-time Missouri police officer threatens teen daughter with a gun because she didn’t do chores


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/part...e+Raw+Story%29

If he had been full time office, he would have shot her.

[spurraider21]

Part-time Missouri police officer threatens teen daughter with a gun because she didn’t do chores


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/part...e+Raw+Story%29

If he had been full time office, he would have shot her.

what do you mean "he"

the cop was a woman. do you even read these articles before spamming them here?

[TheSanityAnnex]

what do you mean "he"

the cop was a woman. do you even read these articles before spamming them here?

of course not

[spurraider21]

Was this too long for your simple brain to read, BooBoo? 117 words


Part-time Missouri police officer is under investigation for allegedly pointing a handgun at her daughter over unfinished chores, local WGEM reports.

Michele Miller, 42, was charged with misdemeanor domestic assault and has been released after posting bond, the station reports. Miller is a part-time officer with the Kahoka Police Department.

WGEM reports Miller came home from a trip on Sunday and became angry at her daughter for not doing her chores. The girl told police her mother threatened her with a handgun and told her, “it would only take one bullet and she wouldn’t have to be here.”

Miller has been placed on unpaid leave pending the investigation. She’s been on the force for about one year.

[cd021]

why won't whites riot

Maybe cops need to shoot a couple of unarmed Caucasian in the head or back and then lie and claim self defense or:

illegally arrest an man and give a severed spine and them have the nerve to claim that they did nothing wrong
or lie about warning a 12 year old boy four times to drop a toy gun or standing onto of a car and firing 15 rounds at two unarmed citizens
or shooting an unarmed man leaving his apartment because he startled you
or choking an unarmed man to death an giving a thumbs up as he lay dying
or shooting an unarmed man and saying " your breathe" as he lay dying
or shooting an unarmed man in the back in a Walmart without warning

[spurraider21]

more white people are killed by cops per year than any other race. not proportionally, but in volume. but with the way the events are portrayed in the news, you'd think 9 black guys are killed for every 1 white dude

[cd021]

more white people are killed by cops per year than any other race. not proportionally, but in volume. but with the way the events are portrayed in the news, you'd think 9 black guys are killed for every 1 white dude

(May,2013-April, 2015)
"About half the victims were white, half minority. But the demographics shifted sharply among the unarmed victims, two-thirds of whom were black or Hispanic. Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...d4e_story.html