in terms of raw totals you're correct but using raw totals is obviously useless. Thats why they compared the victims by race to the census and they found nearly half were minorities and 66% of unarmed victims were black or Hispanic.thank you for confirming that more whites are killed by police in volume than any other race. from your link:
3 times the rate of black were killed by police compared any other race. Its certainly not 9:1 like you mentioned but it is extremely disproportionate.
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The 10 cities with the largest police departments spent $248.7 million last year on settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from 2010, according to data gathered by the Journal through public-records requests.
They collectively paid out more than $1 billion over the five years for such cases, which include alleged beatings, shootings and wrongful imprisonment.
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#bluelivesmatter
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The 10 cities with the largest police departments spent $248.7 million last year on settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from 2010, according to data gathered by the Journal through public-records requests.
They collectively paid out more than $1 billion over the five years for such cases, which include alleged beatings, shootings and wrongful imprisonment.
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Coppers terrorizing citizens and then the taxpayers bail em out. Aren't you a conservative? Would think that the GOP would be up in arms about this.
36 unarmed people killed by the cops is pretty shocking in general. Severing spines, shooting someone in the face or shooting someone 8 times in the back...
nah, rich people created cops to suppress the blacks, immigrants in the 19th century.Coppers terrorizing citizens and then the taxpayers bail em out. Aren't you a conservative? Would think that the GOP would be up in arms about this.
Four Southern California police officers arrested for abusing 13 children in camp for troubled youth
Four Southern California police officers were arrested on su ion of physically abusing children at a police-run boot camp for troubled youths, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.
Sheriff's detectives arrested Detective Marissa Larios, 36, and Officer Patrick Nijland, 47, of the Huntington Park Police Department and officers Carlos Gomez-Marquez, 31, and Edgar Gomez, 35, of the South Gate Police Department on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department.
13 different children ranging from the ages of 12 to 17 stated to investigators that they were choked, punched, kicked, slapped, beaten, and thrown around like rag dolls throughout the week they were there.Not to sound smug, but maybe police officers aren't the right people, and a military base isn't the right place, for a camp that needs to teach kids about non-violence, discipline, and self-control.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/06/1409254/-Four-southern-California-police-officers-arrested-for-abusing-13-children-in-camp-for-troubled-youth?detail=email#
are there ANY good apples in the police?
Do ents Reveal the Fearmongering Local Cops Use to Score Military Gear From the Pentagon
Confronting school shooters and terrorists? More like patrolling Packers games, pot-heads, and the local beach
Law enforcement agencies responded by stoking old fears. No community, they argued, not even the smallest one, is safe from worst-case scenarios like mass shootings, hostage situations, or terrorist attacks.
The use of this military equipment has resulted in "substantial positive impact on public safety and officer safety," Jim Bueermann, the president of the Police Foundation, a research group, said in a 2014 Senate hearing on police militarization. He cited hostage situations, rescue missions, and heavy-duty shootouts where the vehicles had come in useful.
But in private, police justify these same programs in radically different ways.
"This is a great example of how police as an ins ution talk to each other privately, versus how they talk to the public and journalists who might raise questions about what they're doing with this equipment."
Mother Jones obtained more than 450 local requests, filed over two years, for what may be the most iconic piece of equipment in the debate over militarizing local police: the mine resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP.*
And an analysis of these do ents reveals that in justifying their requests, very few sheriffs and police chiefs cite active shooters, hostage situations, or terrorism, as police advocates do in public.
Instead, the single most common reason agencies requested a mine-resistant vehicle was to combat drugs.
Fully a quarter of the 465 requests projected using the vehicles for drug enforcement.
Almost half of all departments indicated that they sit within a region designated by the federal government as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
(Nationwide, only 17 percent of counties are HIDTAs.)
One out of six departments were prepared to use the vehicles to serve search or arrest warrants on individuals who had yet to be convicted of a crime.
And more than half of the departments indicated they were willing to deploy armored vehicles in a broad range of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) raids.
By contrast, out of the total 465 requests, only 8 percent mention the possibility of a barricaded gunman.
For hostage situations, the number is 7 percent, for active shooters, 6 percent. Only a handful mentioned downed officers or the possibility of terrorism.
"This is a great example of how police as an ins ution talk to each other privately, versus how they talk to the public and journalists who might raise questions about what they're doing with this equipment,"
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...-gear-pentagon
5 Times the Media Has Smeared Black Victims of Police Killings Since Michael Brown
1. Eric Garner
Choked on camera in broad daylight for “resisting arrest” with his hands up, Eric Garner's death was one of the few cop killings that was so egregious it resulted in relatively bipartisan outrage - including, strangely enough, from former President George W. Bush. who said the decision not to indict Eric Garner's killer Daniel Pantaleo was "hard to understand."
But it's important to stress the word "relatively" because rightwing trolls wouldn’t have it. Outlets from Breitbart, to Fox News to The New York Post toNewsMax dedicated considerable time to smearing Eric Garner as a “career criminal” who somehow caused his own death by resisting arrest. Vulgar human Bob McManus would pen one of the more offensive mainstream Garner smears, the day after his killer was set free by a Staten Island Grand Jury:
Blame only the man who tragically decided to resist
Eric Garner and Michael Brown had much in common, not the least of which was this: On the last day of their lives, they made bad decisions.
Epically bad decisions.
Each broke the law — petty offenses, to be sure, but sufficient to attract the attention of the police. And then — tragically, stupidly, fatally, inexplicably — each fought the law. The law won, of course, as it almost always does.
There it is. Because Mr. Garner was a "career criminal” who, for once, resisted arrest in the most benign way possible, he deserved to die. No account of whether such extreme force was needed. No account for the banned chokehold, no account for whether or not six white men jumping on top of one black man was, at all, racially charged. No, in authoritarian rightwing land, anything short of complete submission to the police is punishable by death. And, because to them black life is cheap, their deaths become a morality tale for other black people to follow -- obey the police or suffer the same fate. In this sense, black deaths aren't just ignored, they are used as a warning to others.
2. Sandra Bland
A combination of a likely illegal arrest, harassment, and outright neglect led to Sandra Bland's death last month. Whether or not that was by way of suicide is yet to be determined, but thus far it seems she took her own life. In many ways, as other commenters have noted, it doesn't matter. And in many ways, the media treated it no differently. In the wake of Ms. Bland's death, aside from the aforementioned and entirely predictable authority worship from Fox News, another common smear tactic was trotted out: "marijuana in the system."
It's a popular line and one the media and St. Louis County authorities echoed time and time again in the wake of Mr. Brown's death. That somehow having cannabis in one's system is either relevant or inculpatory. As Managing Director of the Drug Policy Alliance Sharda Sekaran noted in the Huffington Post:
At a news conference discussing the preliminary findings of an autopsy following Bland's alleged suicide at the Waller County Jail in Texas last week, officials placed heavy emphasis on marijuana reported to be found in the young woman's system.
Why this emphasis? What does this have to do with widespread demands for accountability around the cir stances of her death? Are we expected to believe the not so subtle insinuation that marijuana use played a part? How is this still happening? Take a sample of random people in any walk of life in this country at any given moment in time, and you are likely to find marijuana in the system of many of them.
The reason for the emphasis is clear: in an effort to justify police killings under the guise of "balance" the media rushes to find anything -- no matter how common or innocuous -- to criminalize the victim. And, since roughly 1 in 9 Americans smokes cannabis regularly, an easy go-to is the "weed in the system" line.
3. Sam Dubose
Even after Hamilton County's right-wing prosecutor delivered what has to be one of the most clear condemnations of a killer cop ever, Fox News couldn't help itself, trying to muddy the waters soon after by, once again, blaming the victim.
As Media Matters noted at the time, Eric Bolling of Fox News's The Five would repeat the ol' "Don't resist arrest line" because, as we all know, the punishment for resisting arrest is summary execution:Another Fox News contributor and former NYPD detective, Bo Dietl wouldn't miss a beat, telling Sean Hannity later than night, "Listen to me. I said it doesn't outweigh the shooting. But should he have just driven away from the cop? Eric, is that right for him to just drive away from the cop?That's not right either."
But everyone is rushing this, prosecutor just said the cop is guilty of murder. He's already indicted him. And I'm not defending this at all. But people have to realize you can't resist arrest. This guy is taking off. I don't think that cop was fearing for his life. So I think he'll probably be found guilty or something, but stop resisting.
Body camera footage from the incident seems to contradict the claim that Dubose fled from the officer. The footage seems to suggest that, in contrast to what the officer claimed, Dubose's car propeled forward after he was shot.
The impulse for the media, especially the right-wing media, to blame black victims for their own deaths is so strong, that even in the face of official Republican condemnation the bottom feeders at Fox News will still apologize for the police's actions. Even when video is released that shows, beyond any reasonable doubt, a white police officer wrongfully killed a black man, the impulse to blame the victim cannot be contained. It's not just bias, it's a pathology.
4. Charly "Africa" Keunang
One of the lesser known police killings is also one of the more egregious examples of the media taking it upon themselves to smear a black victim. Avideo showing an unarmed homeless man being shot in broad daylight quickly went viral on March 1st, resulting in the LAPD going on the defensive. Per usual, the entirely unrelated criminal record of Keunang, who friends called "Africa," would be leaked to the press and shamelessly repeated even thougt they had no bearing on the case whatsoever.
One reporter, in particular, Kate Mather of the Los Angels Times would feel the need to time and time again bring up a bank robbery Mr. Africa had committed over fifteen years ago. As I wrote at the time for FAIR:
This arrangement would become even sleazier yesterday when city authorities–and thus the LA Times–went into full on character assassination mode, with back-to-back smear pieces about Africa’s totally irrelevant criminal past. This screencap of the LA Times‘ Kate Mather’s bio page sums it up nicely:
Her jolly face contrasted with the scary, entirely non sequitur mugshot of Africa raises the question: Why? What does whether he robbed a bank 15 years ago have to do with anything? How is it relevant? How can it do anything but serve to posthumously try and convict him on unrelated charges of being poor and mentally ill?
This case illustrates an important point as well: the smearing of black victims isn't just a staple of the rightwing media, it's a very routine practice in local and corporate media who are in desperate need of information and always willing to uncritically repeat whatever the local police departments hand them inexchange for it. Which brings us to the last and most well-known smear:
5. Freddie Gray
The death of Freddie Gray was ruled a homicide and the officers involved were eventually arrested and charged with a number of crimes, including murder and manslaughter. But not after a week of smear pieces coming from anonymous police sources that attempted to blame Mr. Gray for his own death. Indeed, much of what the Baltimore Police said during the week of unrest in late April turned out to be bogus, including a "gang conspiracy" to take out cops that was uncritically repeated by the media but later revealed to be false by the FBI.
In addition to telling lies to discredit protestors, the Baltimore Police Department was content telling lies that also discredited the source of their outrage: Freddie Gray. Two days before prosecutors would indict the cops who were responsible for Gray's death, the Washinton Post would run a rather bizarre -- and ultimately discredited -- piece based on anonymous BPD leaks detailing how Freddie Gray was trying to injure himself the day of his arrest:
A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,”according to a police do ent obtained by The Washington Post.
Eventually, follow up corrections to the piece as well as the DA's indictment would go a long way to discrediting the idea that Gray was supposedly responsible for his own death but in many ways the damage was done.
http://www.alternet.org/media/5-time...ter1040656&t=3
We all note that ST rightwingnuts LOVE slander the "thugs" who've been killed by the chicken cops.
Prosecutors out of control as well: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...olice-officer/
KTRK-TV reports deputies found 0.02 ounces of marijuana on Corley, but did not say from where.
i know its an insignificant amount, but if you're gna be a twitter slacktivist, you should at least read these articles before you post them attached with a comment like "no weed"
make excuses for cops sticking their hands up a woman's pussy in broad daylight for a few crumbs of weed brehs
i didnt give a single excuse for the search. just like the slacktivist didnt read the article, you didnt even read my postmake excuses for cops sticking their hands up a woman's pussy in broad daylight for a few crumbs of weed brehs
avante-like meltdown... nothing to say so spams youtubes
Warrior cops just arrested a white stoner in front of my office. ing junkie was so ripped he couldn't even sit on the railing and kept nodding and catching himself. Typical Haven for the Hopeless street trash. I was really surprised when he cuffed him. They usually let them go.
one more time
warrior cops can't get pussy so they harass our women
You've spewed this lie before and you've been proven wrong. Policing dates back to the colonial era.
i've seen "office" looks like a junkyard. wasn't a homeless person found dead not too far from there?
Probably.
As for my office, yeah there is some junk I'm getting rid of but most of it is worth $$$$. Just looks like junk to ignorant non working s like you.
And considering the downtown is crawling with homeless junkie s it's no surprise one was found dead.
hard to call him a cop considering he was kicked off the force back in 2013warrior cops can't get pussy so they harass our women
yea i remember reading about a homeless person found dead a few blocks from you at the SA library. man you chose a terrible spot to run a business lol.
well thank you for getting rid of most of that crap. honestly, your business is so cluttered and dirty looking it does look like a dump. as a business owner in the downtown area, you should do some community outreach and pay the homeless guys a few bucks to pick up trash or do odd jobs around your business.
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