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"pistol-whipping of a Birmingham police detective"
stupid cop, he should have shot Janard before Janard got out of the car.
What does this have to do with cops brutalizing and shooting unarmed people?
A Center Point man with a violent past is now charged with attempted murder in the pistol-whipping of a Birmingham police detective during a traffic stop Friday morning.
Police today identified the suspect as 34-year-old Janard Shamar Cunningham, also known as Janaris Shavar Cunningham. He has at least a half dozen convictions dating back to 1999, and as many arrests in which charges were dismissed during the same time period.
Cunningham is charged in the beating of a detective who is a six-year veteran of the force. Authorities said Cunningham stole the detective's gun and then repeatedly hit him in the head until the detective stopped moving.
Not long after the attack, photos began to surface on social media showing the detective lying face down on the pavement. Another photo showed him bloody and kneeling, but awake. In some cases on Facebook, the photos were accompanied by words of support for whoever beat the detective.
That, police say, is outrageous. Officers are angry that any photos were shown at all, but even more so that there were some who mocked the incident. "He was laying there lifeless and people were standing around taking pictures,'' said Birmingham police Sgt. Heath Boackle, president of the Fraternal Order of Police. "If the tables were turned, and that was a suspect lying there, they would be rioting."
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/in...past_char.html
"pistol-whipping of a Birmingham police detective"
stupid cop, he should have shot Janard before Janard got out of the car.
What does this have to do with cops brutalizing and shooting unarmed people?
This thread is about thug criminals assaulting and killing the police, try to keep up.
Nothing you ing idiot. Did you not read the thread le before clicking it?
Except this thread was made in response to justify cops shooting unarmed citizens.
No, it was made to highlight criminals' violence against law enforcement officers.
"Unarmed" does not mean "not dangerous," BTW. For instance, the story in the OP is about an "unarmed" criminal who stole the cop's gun.
Really? Where is the unarmed citizen in the OP that needed to be shot?
Cops know it's a dangerous job. They still sign up for it. It doesn't give them the license to shoot someone for reaching for their wallet. And not all unarmed people are dangerous. In fact, maybe he should know how to not let a suspect steal his gun
In the other thread that this one was made in response to.
So you think it's okay to brutally beat somebody just for being a cop? Duly noted.Cops know it's a dangerous job. They still sign up for it. It doesn't give them the license to shoot someone for reaching for their wallet. And not all unarmed people are dangerous. In fact, maybe he should know how to not let a suspect steal his gun
You think it's okay for a cop to shoot an innocent unarmed citizen? Or cops who beat suspects in custody?
I think it's okay for cops to act in self-defense when their lives are threatened.
And that's fine. The problem is too many cops use excessive force when their lives are not in danger.
Stupid thread fm stupid imbecile imo
they brutalize and kill when their macho bully egos are threatened
"you disrespect me? you run away from me? I'm gonna you up good"
What kind of pussy lets his gun get taken from him and then gets his kicked in with his own sidearm?
hope he loses his job and that PD goes under investigation for not properly training their officers.
Ironic coming from a Mike Brown supporter.What kind of pussy lets his gun get taken from him and then gets his kicked in with his own sidearm?
hope he loses his job and that PD goes under investigation for not properly training their officers.
Not according to lib s, race-baiters and the media.
A 400-strong masked mob attacked police and paramedics with bottles and bricks after a party spiralled out of control.
Officers came under "sustained attack" in north-east London last night after they were called out to deal with the late night revellers, Scotland Yard said.
Hundreds of party-goers turned on the police, hurling bricks and bottles off the balcony of a block of flats at the officers below and blocking their police cars in with bins.
Riot police, dog units and a helicopter were drafted in to deal the riot, which erupted at around 11.40pm in Stoke Newington.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/400-strong...7.html#3TDNCVD
You've got to be a real bag to support the criminal in this case.
Sure but we've seen that in South Carolina and Cincinnati where unarmed people weren't posing threats but infact fleeing cops and were shot in the back and the other in the face. Both cops would have gotten off without video evidence.
24 unarmed black people killed by police in 8 months, that doesn't even include Garner, Crawford III, Brown and Rice (2014).
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We should really do something about criminals. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Perhaps some day we will have a system set up whereby the law is enforced and criminal activity is punished.
all y'all rednecks have been putting these "criminal on cops" stuff in the warrior cops thread, with the BLATANT attempt to excuse cops killing unarmed citizens. this thread is more of the same
Five myths about America’s police
1. The job of a police officer is increasingly dangerous.
According to FBI statistics, 27 police officers were feloniously killed in 2013, the lowest raw number in more than 50 years. (The previous low was 41 in 2008.) If we go by officer homicides as a percentage of active-duty police, it was probably the safest year in a century. The number of cops killed on duty has been falling since the mid-1990s, consistent with the overall drop in violent crime in America. Assaults against police officers have been in decline as well.
We will probably see news stories in the coming weeks about a sharp increase in cops killed this year vs. 2013. Approximating from data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, it is likely that about 50 police officers will be killed this year. That’s certainly a sharp increase over the 27 last year, but even if that toll is reached, it would still be one of the lowest since the early 1960s and in line with the general decline since the mid-1990s. The average number of cops feloniously killed per year over the past decade: 51.1.
2. YouTube videos and cellphone footage prove that today’s cops are out of control.
Most criminologists believe that today’s police departments are more professional than ever before. Cops tend to get more training, and departments are guided by defined rules and procedures. Most decent-size police agencies have internal affairs departments, and a growing number of cities have installed citizen review boards.
That hardly means there are no problems in policing today, of course, or that these developments suffice to safeguard civil liberties. But it’s likely that the ubiquity of cellphone cameras and the diffusive power of social media are simply making us more aware of rule-breaking cops, rather than showing that there are more of them than before.
But even if there may be fewer rogue cops who abuse their authority and use force outside the bounds of department rules, it’s also true that, as a matter of policy, police use more force today than they have in the past. SWAT tactics, for example, are increasingly used for credit card fraud and other low-level offenses, administrative warrants, or even regulatory enforcement. Use-of-force training today puts less emphasis on conflict resolution and deescalation, if they are addressed at all. The problem isn’t cops breaking the rules — the rules themselves are the problem.
3. With more criminals wielding heavy-duty weapons, police must militarize to catch up.
Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years — the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline.
One version of this argument advanced recently by Vox and the New Republicis that we can’t demilitarize the police without gun control. But even if it were true that criminals were arming themselves with bigger guns, it isn’t clear that gun control would demilitarize the police. First, gun-control legislation would probably not do much to keep guns out of the hands of violent criminals, particularly in the short term. Second, the argument assumes that the law enforcement community would accept such a bargain. That seems unlikely. Polls consistently show that large majorities of police officers oppose gun control, although big-city chiefs and the heads of some big police organizations support such policies. The NRA in particular includes a lot of cops in its membership and recently ran an article in favor of police militarization in its flagship magazine.
New gun-control laws may have other merits, but it’s unlikely that they would slow down the militarization of U.S. police.
4. Aggressive, confrontational policing is the best way to control crime.
Proponents of police militarization sometimes point out that the trend has occurred at the same time that crime has dropped dramatically — therefore, militarization must be working. But criminologists are still debating what has caused the decline in crime since the mid-1990s. In New York, crime fell without mass incarceration. In San Diego, it dropped without the “broken windows” policing employed in New York.
Moreover, the most notable manifestation of militaristic policing is the SWAT team. According to Eastern Kentucky University criminologist Peter Kraska, the number of annual SWAT deployments in the United States jumped more than 1,500 percent between the early 1980s and 2000. Yet according toKraska’s data and a study this year from the American Civil Liberties Union, 60 to 80 percent of SWAT raids are to enforce warrants for drug crimes — and drug crimes are the one class of crime that hasn’t dropped since the 1990s.
The good news is that in places where it’s been tried, “community policing” — which stresses de-escalation; community involvement; and solutions that don’t always involve more arrests, more raids and more street sweeps — has succeeded.
It happened in the early 1970s in Washington, where crime fell under the leadership of Police Chief Jerry Wilson, a community-policing advocate, while it increased just about everywhere else. In California, by the time Police ChiefJoseph McNamara retired in 1991, he had used community policing to make San Jose the safest big city in America — with a police force that per capita was one of the smallest in the country. More recently, as my Washington Post colleague Philip Bump pointed out this past week, the number of stop-and-frisks in New York City has dropped by an incredible 94 percent since 2011 — with no noticeable effect on the crime rate.
5. Tasers and other “less lethal” weapons allow cops to use less force.
New technology and new weapons are only as good as the policies guiding their use. Tasers were initially touted as a subs ute for lethal force, a way for cops to subdue violent suspects without killing them. Over time, however, they have become a compliance tool — used to quell dissent, move nonviolent protesters and punish people for talking back. A 2011 National Ins ute of Justice study found that cops use their Tasers too often and in inappropriate cir stances.
While there is no national data on Taser use, a 2012 Chicago Tribune reportfound that Taser use by suburban police doubled between 2008 and 2011. A 2011 New York Civil Liberties Union study found that nearly 60 percent of police Taser incidents in that state did not meet expert-recommended criteria for using the weapon. It’s also worth noting that Amnesty International has do ented more than 500 cases in which a suspect died after being shocked with a Taser.
It would be one thing if all those stun gun barbs were being fired in place of bullets. But according to FBI statistics, the number of justifiable homicides by police has been increasing since about 2000. That data is also incomplete, but to the extent that it’s flawed, it probably undercounts such incidents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-americas-police/2014/12/05/35b1af44-7bcd-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html
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