Cop Tyranny Thread

One of the worst unprovoked cop beat downs I've ever seen.

Atlantic City Police Chief Ernest Jubiliee said he viewed the tape of the incident that took place and “saw no reason to suspend or remove officers from their regular duties.”
Nothing will happen to these animals.


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This cop shoots at a guy for getting out of his car at a traffic stop. Why are you legally required to stay in your car?

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Holy shit, cop v cop, and he got off with almost nothing:


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Don't tell me I don't care about you, OfficePants OfficePants

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/militarization-local-police-america
America's police are looking more and more like the military
  • Oct. 7, 2013

America's streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, donated by the US Defense Department to the county sheriff.

Between the Armored Personnel Carriers locking down main streets in major American cities – mimicking our MRAPs in Afghanistan – or Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) and Special Forces units canvassing our country, if we're not careful, this militarization of our domestic policing will make-over America, and fast.

Here's how it all happened. A little-known Pentagon program has been quietly militarizing American police forces for years. A total of $4.2bn worth of equipment has been distributed by the Defense Department to municipal law enforcement agencies, with a record $546m in 2012 alone.

In the fine print of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1997, the "1033 program" was born. It allows the Defense Department to donate surplus military equipment to local police forces.

Though the program's existed since the 1990s, it has expanded greatly in recent years, due, in part, to post-9/11 fears and sequestration budget cuts. The expanse, however, seems unnecessary given that the Department of Homeland Security has already handed out $34bn in "terrorism grants" to local polices forces – without oversight mind you – to fund counter-terrorism efforts.

Additional militarization, then, deserves congressional attention as the program is harmful and must be scaled back for a number of reasons.

First, the program is transforming our police into a military. The results of such over-militarized law enforcement are apparent from the dispersion of Occupy protesters in Oakland to the city-wide lockdown in Boston. As retired police chief Norm Stamper stated to the Associated Press:

We make a serious mistake, I'm convinced, in equipping domestic law enforcement, particularly in smaller, rural communities, with this much military equipment.

Tanks, grenade launchers, armored vehicles, and assault rifles are just a few of the items that have been transferred from military control to municipal police forces. Law enforcement agencies need only to arrange and pay for shipment in order to receive the items of their choice (pdf). One particularly egregious example is found in South Carolina, where Richland County's sheriff acquired a tank with 360-degree rotating machine gun turrets. Sardonically, the vehicle has been named "the Peacemaker".

Swat teams, furthermore, are no longer found only in large, high-crime areas. Instead, even small rural towns now have the equipment to arm their own paramilitary units. Investigative reporter Radley Balko estimates that around 150 Swat raids are performed every day in the United States.

Second, the program encourages waste. Never mind, for a moment, that neither the Defense Department nor the Homeland Security Department has been audited – the only two unaudited government departments incidentally. Any waste from the 1033 program, then, has gone unnoticed thus far.

Municipalities' stockpiles have grown exponentially with billions of dollars' worth of weaponry and equipment they simply do not need. This giveaway has created a shopping frenzy among law enforcement officials keen to scoop up equipment before someone else does.

Take a look at these examples. A small town in Georgia without a body of water acquired boats and scuba gear. The same town ordered a shipment of bayonets, which is now collecting dust. In Texas, a town of only 835 residents received more than $3m worth of equipment, including deep-fat fryers, televisions, and playground equipment. The stories abound.

Authorities often claim that the program assists local law enforcement without incurring costs for taxpayers. Yet the program requires that localities accept equipment "as is", meaning that taxpayers foot the bill (pdf) for all repairs, storage, or maintenance of the growing stockpile. Thus, the arms race ignited by these policies is as wasteful and costly as it is dangerous.

Lastly, the program's lack of oversight is irresponsible. Indeed, the amount of unaccounted for weapons, fraud, and abuse is alarming. Officially, state coordinators are required to ensure that local law enforcement agencies keep full inventories (pdf) of the equipment they receive, and the localities must report any missing equipment and return any that is unused. But in practice, federal and state authorities infrequently check – if ever – to ensure that inventories are up to date. Effectively, then, it is the recipients of weapons who are left to regulate themselves. The results have been disastrous.

For example, a sheriff in Illinois was accused of lending the assault rifles, which he got through the 1033 program, to his friends. Meanwhile, a firearms manager in North Carolina pled guilty to selling his on eBay. Worse, 11 districts in Indiana were completely suspended from the program because of the high volume of weapons they lost. And a county in Arizona acquired $7m worth of weapons and Humvees before giving them to unauthorized persons and attempting to sell them to boost their budget.

The lack of oversight is appalling. State coordinators admit that they conduct very few in-person inspections. In New York, the state is apparently outsourcing the majority of their inventory work to a part-time, unpaid intern. And in Mississippi, it took six years before federal authorities discovered that a state office, which was ineligible for the program, had received $8m worth of equipment, despite the fact that the Defense Department is supposed to review the program every two years.

The Pentagon program cannot continue in this manner. Congress should acknowledge the failure of this program and permanently ban military-grade weaponry, armored vehicles and aircraft from transfer to municipal police forces. If the Defense Department is to continue to lend surplus equipment to localities, it must vastly tighten oversight and ensure that no item go unaccounted for. On-site inspections must be frequent and consequences for noncompliance should be severe.

If America is concerned about helping its police forces prevent violence, there are more cost effective ways of doing that. Since we know that cities and states with lower levels of violence have higher levels of education, healthcare coverage and economic opportunity, and lower levels of poverty and income inequality, that is where we should be investing taxpayer dollars.

But when local police forces carry assault weapons and patrol America's main streets with tanks and drones, the lines blur between the military and law enforcement. The growing militarization of the United States appears to be occurring at home as well as abroad, a phenomenon which is troublesome and sure to continue without decisive action. Scaling back the 1033 program is a much-needed start and would cast some light on the blurring line between military forces and the local police who are meant to protect and serve.
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This poor woman... face destroyed.


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^ sorry, but I just cant get over how incredible a group of motherfuckers these are. This has to stop.
 
Background:

On Oct. 14, Bobby Gerald Bennett of Dallas, 59, of Dallas, Texas began acting erratically. Sitting in a swivel chair in the middle of the cul de sac holding a knife, his mother, Joyce Jackson, called the police and asked the dispatcher to send officers who were trained in dealing with the mentally ill.

But when police arrived at 12:19 p.m., both officers quickly drew their weapons and one officer shot Bennett four times in the middle of the street, striking him once in the abdomen.

According to the press release issued by Dallas police Sgt. Warren Mitchell immediately after the shooting, Bennett “made statements indicating that he was not going to cooperate with the officers" and that “the incident escalated which led an officer to fire his weapon upon the individual.”

However, according to surveillance video captured by neighbor Maurice Bunch, Bennett was standing still during the entire incident and, when he was shot, his hands were down by his side. Bunch, who witnessed the shooting.

“When the officers told him freeze, he complied,” said Bunch, who witnessed the incident from his driveway across the street. “He did not move an inch, in suspended animation; he just stood there, you know? Bobby was conscious, he knew exactly what he was doing because I had been talking to him prior.”
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Not sure if this been posted, but I read somewhere that police departments have been purchasing armor plated vehicles from the DoD. When would local police departments ever need those things. Waste of money.
 
Woke up to the sound of cops banging on my door. Stumbled out of the bedroom to find my door wide open w/ two officers right there. Apparently, my daughter had unlocked the door and wandered out of the house, not finding me and thinking I had left her. She went to our neighbors and they called the cops.

Officers grilling me: Why were you asleep? (duh, at 7am) What were you doing last night? (um, studying in case you couldn't tell by the mess on the table of our living room, pig) You should really lock this door (it was, dimwit) and all kinds of shiite.
 
El Argentino said:
Woke up to the sound of cops banging on my door. Stumbled out of the bedroom to find my door wide open w/ two officers right there. Apparently, my daughter had unlocked the door and wandered out of the house, not finding me and thinking I had left her. She went to our neighbors and they called the cops.

Officers grilling me: Why were you asleep? (duh, at 7am) What were you doing last night? (um, studying in case you couldn't tell by the mess on the table of our living room, pig) You should really lock this door (it was, dimwit) and all kinds of shiite.
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Holy shit! What ended up happening? Where was the wife?
 
This one's right up your alley OfficePants OfficePants

http://gawker.com/female-dui-suspects-in-washington-were-made-to-strip-fo-1448409421

Female DUI Suspects in Washington Were Made to Strip for Their Jailers
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Almost two dozen women have come forward with complaints about being forced to strip naked in a Washington police station after being arrested for DUI, and then videotaped by police officers.

The women were brought to a holding cell in Puyallup, Washington, where they were told to strip naked before being given jail clothes. Unbeknownst to them, their jailers were watching them strip through a video camera.

“We’ve got dozens of other people calling who had similar experiences in Puyallup. We’re sorting through them right now,” Seattle Attorney James Egan told King 5 News.

The women were mostly arrested for suspected DUI before they were brought to the jailhouse. “I was told I needed to take off all my garments and change into the uniform,” a woman who was jailed reported. When she refused to undress in front of male officers, the woman says she was held an additional twelve hours.

The City of Puyallup has defended the practice and says that such filming practices are standard in jails, but law enforcement experts disagree that it's common for an inmate to be videotaped while undressing.

“They’re telling us they didn’t know they were being videotaped. They didn’t consent to being on camera. They feel violated by finding out this information,” a lawyer for one of the women said.
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El Argentino said:
Wife's been out of town for a wedding. Just me and the daughter.
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You should have told them it was none of their business and if they suspected you of a crime to detain you and obtain a warrant to search your home. Otherwise you would not answer questions.

I blame your neighbors. Why wouldn't they knock on your door or call your house? Seems stupid. I mean a little kid comes over and says something like that and did doesn't give your neighbors pause??
 
OfficePants said:
You should have told them it was none of their business and if they suspected you of a crime to detain you and obtain a warrant to search your home. Otherwise you would not answer questions.

I blame your neighbors. Why wouldn't they knock on your door or call your house? Seems stupid. I mean a little kid comes over and says something like that and did doesn't give your neighbors pause??
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I don't know if I'd trust that first tract with today's child paranoia. The poor bastard might end up having his kid sent to DCFS.
 
DYSong Photography said:
I just saw this. UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE! I hope that piece of shit meets Karma in a back alley somewhere. No charges against this douche on top of it. If any of us did something like this we would be so far up Shit's Creek it wouldn't be funny.
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A-fucking-men.
 
Oh my god... someone has finally been fired.


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Tazed for not showing ID. Fucking idiot cops:

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I saw a great ACLU video that instructed to ask if you were free to go, that you didn't consent to searches, etc.
I thought cops, like military officers, were required to have some level of college. Of course that means they 'study' film appreciation or physical education or some such easy irrelevant stuff, not constitutional law.
 
Due to some hasty reading, I thought this was the Cop Tranny thread. Needless to say, I am disappoint.
 
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