Cop Tyranny Thread

All of the cops that I know are cool as fuck, you guys are retards.
 
gufasd said:
So are lawyers and middle management and fast food workers - basically everyone is an asshole. Why do cops stand out?
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Because a fast food worker can't detain you.

When you have access to petty power, it takes a certain responsibility to use it. Cops fail at it.

It kind of reminds me of the Islam discussion. Like Islam, cops get the 'few bad apples' label, and like Islam there is something structurally wrong with the orchard.
 
Rambo said:
http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index....orities_release_dashcam_footage_in_bridg.html
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At least it was black on black for once. That black cop needs to go, telling people you're gonna be dead is pretty ghetto.

The sargeant at the end tells everyone to "go off" meaning turn on the mics... smelly of coverup. The cop lied and said he pulled a gun, you hear that just before the mics go off. The guy didn't pull a gun, he got out of the car with his hands out in front of him, posing no threat, save for a trigger happy cop.
 
Um, seeing how nobody seems to be explaining the stolen car and a cop was taken to the hospital, I'll wait on this one.
 
If they don't have a warrant or probable cause, they have to let you go - ie the "Am I being detained" question.

If they manufacture probable cause, you're screwed, but the cop may be too.
 
This one's for JimmyRustler


Police Officer Handcuffed Meddling Defense Attorney to a Wall: Report

A San Francisco public defender says she was placed under arrest and handcuffed to a wall for around an hour because she tried to stop police officers from questioning her client without a lawyer present.

Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson was inside a San Francisco courthouse when she reportedly heard police were in the hallway outside, interviewing a man she was representing on a misdemeanor theft charge.

There, she found plainclothes officer Brian Stansbury taking pictures of her client and tried to stop him, asserting the man's right to have his attorney present during any questioning.

Via CBS:

The video shows Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson refusing to step aside as a man identified as San Francisco Police Inspector Brian Stansbury tries to take a cellphone picture of him in a hallway at the Hall of Justice on Tuesday.

"I just want to take some pictures, ok? Then he will be free to go," says Stansbury on the video. Tillotson refuses and Stansbury then tells her she can either step aside or be arrested for resisting arrest, according to the subtitles on the YouTube video.

Tillotson, an 18-year veteran of the public defender's office, is calm throughout the video and does not resist officers. She continues to assert she is representing her client as she is led away.

Public Defender Jeff Adachi told reporters Tillotson was eventually handcuffed to a wall for close to an hour while Stansbury photographed and questioned her client.

She was charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.
 
Seattle Cops Sorry About Arresting 70-Year-Old Black Vet for No Reason

This week, the Seattle Police Department issued an apology to a 70-year-old black veteran who was arrested last summer when a female officer apparently falsely accused him of threatening her with a golf club.

William Wingate, a 69-year-old Seattle man who regularly used his golf club as a cane, was standing on a street corner last summer when Officer Cynthia Whitlatch pulled up next to him.

In a exchange captured on her police cruiser's dash cam, Whitlatch accused Wingate of threatening her with his club, repeatedly warning him, "You're being audio and videotaped."

But as the police department conceded, there's no evidence at all—much less a recording—showing that Wingate threatened Whitlatch in any way. Via a Seattle Police Department press release:

The City Attorney's Office and SPD took a second look at this case and recommended that it be dismissed.

Deputy Chief Best personally met with the man, returned his golf club, and offered an apology for his arrest.

Video of the man's arrest was just released to a media outlet as a result of a public disclosure request. It is being published on the SPD Blotter in the interest of fostering better police transparency.

Wingate had actually ended up pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charge of unlawful use of a weapon in exchange for two years of probation, which were dismissed early.

Not dismissed, however, was Whitlatch, the arresting officer.

The officer who made the arrest received counseling from her supervisor, a course of action that the department believes to be an appropriate resolution.

 
Rambo said:
This one's for JimmyRustler


Police Officer Handcuffed Meddling Defense Attorney to a Wall: Report

A San Francisco public defender says she was placed under arrest and handcuffed to a wall for around an hour because she tried to stop police officers from questioning her client without a lawyer present.

Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson was inside a San Francisco courthouse when she reportedly heard police were in the hallway outside, interviewing a man she was representing on a misdemeanor theft charge.

There, she found plainclothes officer Brian Stansbury taking pictures of her client and tried to stop him, asserting the man's right to have his attorney present during any questioning.

Via CBS:

The video shows Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson refusing to step aside as a man identified as San Francisco Police Inspector Brian Stansbury tries to take a cellphone picture of him in a hallway at the Hall of Justice on Tuesday.

"I just want to take some pictures, ok? Then he will be free to go," says Stansbury on the video. Tillotson refuses and Stansbury then tells her she can either step aside or be arrested for resisting arrest, according to the subtitles on the YouTube video.

Tillotson, an 18-year veteran of the public defender's office, is calm throughout the video and does not resist officers. She continues to assert she is representing her client as she is led away.

Public Defender Jeff Adachi told reporters Tillotson was eventually handcuffed to a wall for close to an hour while Stansbury photographed and questioned her client.

She was charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.
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When it starts happening to lawyers, the shark has been jumped. Curious what Rustler thinks happened.
 
Get a load of our taxpayer money being used for this bullshit.

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Cameras work. Cop backed off. Nice job.

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JimmyRustler said:
I just read that. Depressing shit that the government has declared war on its own citizens.
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Here's another way:

NYPD Has a Plan to Magically Turn Anyone It Wants Into a Felon

On Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton urged state legislators to consider increasing the penalty for resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony. The change, he argued, would help New Yorkers "get around this idea that you can resist arrest. You can't." It would also give cops an easy way to turn victims of their own worst impulses into the worst class of criminal.

In theory, a resisting arrest charge allows the state to further punish suspects who endanger the safety of police officers as they're being apprehended; in practice, it gives tautological justification to cops who enjoy roughing people up. Why did you use force against that suspect, officer? Because she was resisting arrest. How do I know you're telling the truth? Because I charged her with it, sir.

Consider a few recent would-be felons:

  • Chaumtoli Huq, former general counsel to NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, who was charged with resisting arrest for waiting for her family outside the Times Square Ruby Tuesday's.
  • Jahmil-El Cuffee, who was charged with resisting arrest after he found himself on the receiving end of a head-stomp from a barbarous cop because he was allegedly rolling a joint. ("Stop resisting!" cops screamed at him as he lay helpless, pinned under a pile of officers.)
  • Denise Stewart, who was charged with resisting arrest after a gang of New York's Finest threw her half-naked from her own apartment into the lobby of her building. (They had the wrong apartment, it turned out.)
  • Santiago Hernandez, who was charged with resisting arrest after a group of cops beat the shit out of him following a stop-and-frisk. "One kicks me, he steps back. Another one comes to punch me and he steps back...They were taking turns on me like a gang," Hernandez told reporters.
  • Eric Garner, who no doubt would have been charged with resisting had the chokehold from Daniel Pantaleo not ended his life first.
Cops using resistance as an excuse for their own abuse isn't some wild conspiracy theory. Sam Walker, a law-enforcement expert and retired University of Nebraska-Omaha criminal justice professor, told WNYC in December:

"There's a widespread pattern in American policing where resisting arrest charges are used to sort of cover – and that phrase is used – the officer's use of force," said Walker, the accountability expert from the University of Nebraska. "Why did the officer use force? Well, the person was resisting arrest."

Fortunately, city district attorneys know the drill, and often have the good sense to dismiss resisting charges when perps are brought up in court. But Bratton would like to see that provision thrown out as well. "The vast majority [of charges] might end up being dismissed," he said at the joint hearing of state senate committees Wednesday. "We're asking district attorneys to treat them more seriously than they have been treated in the past."

Anticipating criticism, Bratton told the assembled lawmakers that he already had a plan to curb abuse: the department would use its CompStat arrest-tracking system to monitor officers who make lots of resisting charges that are eventually dropped, leaving oversight of the NYPD to the NYPD itself.
 
Are we going to have our Styleforum Tyrany Thread? Yes please?
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/justice-department-asset-forfeiture_n_6625960.html

Justice Department Budget Projects Some Asset Forfeiture Payments Will Rise Despite Reforms

Attorney General Eric Holder last month announced reforms to asset forfeitures, the controversial government practice of seizing property associated with alleged illicit activity. But the new Justice Department budget released this week projects the changes will barely cut into federal seizures.

While Holder's announcement was initially hailed as sweeping and historic, it will have little impact on the bottom line of police departments, which benefit by seizing cash and property. The Justice Department estimates payments shared with city and state police will actually increase to $500 million in the current fiscal year, which began in October, from $487 million in the previous fiscal year. The department projects these "equitable sharing" payments will fall to $476 million in fiscal 2016.

That projected decrease is so paltry because Holder ended only one small part of the asset forfeiture program: federal "adoptions" of money and goods seized by local police. Police departments often offer to split 20 percent of the proceeds from seizures with the federal government in order to work around restrictive state laws. The Washington Post's Radley Balko and other observers have pointed out that the change is minor.

"It wasn't a big revenue for the asset forfeiture fund," said Jolene A. Lauria Sullens, a Justice Department deputy assistant attorney general, in response to a question from The Huffington Post this week. "It was a very small amount of cases that were adopted."

Asset forfeiture is controversial because it allows police to seize property or money on the mere suspicion that it is connected to illegal activity. Those who have lost cash, cars or even houses must then prove that they did nothing wrong -- effectively reversing the U.S. legal system's presumption of innocence.

But even after Holder's reforms, cars, money and more seized in joint local-federal operations will remain eligible for federal asset forfeiture. The change means the Justice Department will stop adopting cases in which federal authorities played no role in the seizure.

Asset forfeiture was vastly expanded during the war on drugs. The new Justice Department budget shows that the Drug Enforcement Administration, the agency in the middle of the drug war, won't be much affected by Holder's reforms, either. The DEA's proceeds from asset forfeiture and another federal program will hold steady at an estimated $548 million in fiscal 2015 and 2016.
 
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