Police issues

To "serve and protect"

Cop planting drugs:

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Cops don't care if you're innocent:
"Police didn’t want to hear DeAndre Brown’s alibi. They wanted him to confess to a crime instead. Never mind that he had no criminal record. A witness placed the 26-year-old Pittsburgh-area security guard at the scene, and that was good enough to lock him up for a month, despite the existence of a surveillance tape showing him at a training event somewhere else." more here


Cops beat a nurse:


The Nurse(!) is facing felony charges.

31 Oct, 2011, A nurse in Lawrenceville was tackled, manhandled, handcuffed, and arrested for calling her supervisor, as she had been instructed to do, when police demanded entry to the hospital at 2am.

She is facing a felony charge of obstructing a police officer.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ff_1383622491#DPyKR8AwuFy854rr.99

31 Oct, 2011, A nurse in Lawrenceville was tackled, manhandled, handcuffed, and arrested for calling her supervisor, as she had been instructed to do, when police demanded entry to the hospital at 2am.

She is facing a felony charge of obstructing a police officer.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ff_1383622491#DPyKR8AwuFy854rr.99

31 Oct, 2011, A nurse in Lawrenceville was tackled, manhandled, handcuffed, and arrested for calling her supervisor, as she had been instructed to do, when police demanded entry to the hospital at 2am.

She is facing a felony charge of obstructing a police officer.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ff_1383622491#DPyKR8AwuFy854rr.99

31 Oct, 2011, A nurse in Lawrenceville was tackled, manhandled, handcuffed, and arrested for calling her supervisor, as she had been instructed to do, when police demanded entry to the hospital at 2am.

She is facing a felony charge of obstructing a police officer.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ff_1383622491#DPyKR8AwuFy854rr.99

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Cop runs over girl then kills dad:



Cop kills white 19 year old kid after car chase:
“He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him,” James Comstock told The Des Moines Register on Tuesday. “It was over a damn pack of cigarettes. I wouldn’t buy him none.
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Cops beat white woman booked for drunk driving:




Cops have man anally probed 8(!!) times after traffic stop:
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Cop rapes 19 year old:

"[40-year-old] Jackie Len Neal ... is accused of handcuffing and raping a woman he pulled over while on duty around 2 a.m. Friday. ... Neal allegedly tailed a woman until she pulled over on Betty Street and stepped out of her vehicle. He turned on his overhead lights and requested that she get back inside. The woman complied with the order but left her door open, the report said.

Neal told the woman he was following her because the car she was driving was reported stolen, the woman told police. She showed the officer a sales slip for the recently purchased car. Officers could not confirm whether the vehicle was ever reported stolen.

Neal asked the woman to get out of the vehicle so he could pat her down, according to the affidavit. The woman said she felt uncomfortable and asked that a female officer pat her down, but her request was ignored. During the pat-down, the affidavit said, Neal groped the woman, placed her in handcuffs and moved her to the back of his patrol car. The document said he then raped her and instructed her not to tell anyone."

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Cop arrests employee for trespassing (62 times) at the store he works at: 
"Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years.
He’s been searched more than 100 times. And arrested and jailed 56 times.

Despite his long rap sheet, Sampson, 28, has never been convicted of anything more serious than possession of marijuana.

Miami Gardens police have arrested Sampson 62 times for one offense: trespassing.
Almost every citation was issued at the same place: the 207 Quickstop, a convenience store on 207th Street in Miami Gardens.

But Sampson isn’t loitering. He works as a clerk at the Quickstop."

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html#storylink=cpy

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Cops order arrested African Americans to sing or dance:
"Most of the videos are shot from squad cars while at least one black man are told to sing or dance in humiliating ways. One of the subjects is even in the back of police cars."  source

And then, to make it even worse:
"Videos and and photos with degrading portrayals of black men were submitted earlier this month to the blog, Motor City Muckraker, purportedly from officers who disseminated them to friends and colleagues in the upper class, majority-white Michigan suburb of Grosse Pointe Park. One video portrayed a voice alleged to be an officer asking black men to do humiliating tasks, including “dance like a chimp.” In another incident, an officer allegedly texted a photo of a black man in the back of his trailer with the text, “Gotta love the coloreds.” The journalist, Steve Neavling, told the Huffington Post that he has more than a dozen videos shot by officers, but has not shared most of them because of their “humiliating nature.”  source


Cops stand by, taze, and laugh at a mentally-ill suspect in handcuffs:

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http://politicalblindspot.com/cop-shoots-kills-college-student-for-speaking-disrespectfully/

And, there are much more cases of crooked cops, cops protecting each other, beating civilians etc. etc.


There are several things one could say about a post like this. Either you agree that there are injustices perpetuated by law enforcement, who are insulated by a group loyalty willing to protect themselves as a unit until the press and the public get hold of the information. At which point, higher authoritative figures descend down from their administrative and governing posts for disciplinary action. And this post will further make the case that the police is not the romantic knight in shining armor and paragon of justice we think them to be.

The second reaction is disagreement. That each of these cases are singular anecdotal pieces of evidence, embellished or twisted by the news and vehicles of media with a particular agenda, that none of us can really know what happened in the background of each of these cases, that we are prone to emotional reactions like the Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin incident, and that the cops involved are simply a "few bad apples" fallen off the wayside. That these cases do not represent all police. And no doubt, we can not and should not judge based on singular cases or buy into mass hysterias that fuel certain kinds of bigotry. This is precisely why racism, stereotypes, and sexism happens. We create impressions based on our experienced encounters, or exposure to media and the cries of those around us, and operate based on those impressions for future encounters.

One could also comment that if you're looking for police induced injustice and police brutality, you're going to find it because that is what you want to believe. And yes, there is a tendency for persons to find consonant information with the beliefs they have in mind. The theory of cognitive dissonance predicts and continues to confirm as much. I myself am no particular exception (My past experiences with police and the law have left me with a very bitter and unpropitious view of the police accompanied by a disdain for notions of "justice" in U.S. courtrooms). Similarly, if you wanted to look for "cops helping people"  I'm sure you'll find that as well - my own bias and experiences tell me (while remaining open to correction if there is a significant and overwhelming amount of evidence presented) that white cops tend to help white people or more instances of citizens helping police. I also acknowledge that the internet doesn't capture all things that cops do and that there may be a bias to post negative things about cops. But I think this is justified. Police should never be the perpetrators of violence against the civilians they are employed to protect and serve. Not thugs and gangsters in uniforms representing government. So my question is to what extent do people tolerate the bullshit antics of police?


There comes a point when pieces of anecdotal evidence - which are more concrete now due to video surveillance - are important. I myself am inclined to make a systemic critique about a particular culture of power, in this case a critique of power and authority instilled within police culture and the problematic bias of justice when considering testimony. In the U.S. this is further laced and layered with hostilities and debates surrounding race that goes back a long long time. But to keep it within a contemporary context, at least from the 80s (Rodney King comes to mind),

Dave Chappelle expands in comedic fashion: