Inside the first database that
tracks
America’s criminal cops
THE COP CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN AMERICA - HUNDREDS ARE
MURDERED YEARLY!
In wake
of police shootings, will outside review of Fort Worth police restore
trust?
COP CRIMES IN AMERICA
Here is a list of cop criminals that are still on the
force, which tells you how stinking corrupt anything having to do with the cop
class is!
More than 80 law
enforcement officers working today in California are convicted criminals, with
rap sheets that include everything from animal cruelty to manslaughter.
According to Killedbypolice.net, at least 808 people have been killed by police so far
this year, outpacing last year’s deaths by 20 victims.... and they ALL GET
AWAY WITH IT!
"Police in the
United States are trained to see the working class and poor as a hostile
enemy. Anything less
than complete submissiveness is grounds for officers to unleash
deadly force on
their victims. In some instances, even the most casual encounters with
police
have proven to be deadly."
"In the overwhelming majority of police killings, of which there are more than one thousand every year, no officer is ever charged. In the few cases where charges are brought, most are found not guilty. The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to convict a police officer for murder stating that an officer is permitted to use deadly force as long as he or she believes that either they or others are in danger."
COP MURDERS IN
AMERICA - THOUSANDS SHOT IN THE HEAD.
JUDGES GIVE THE THUG COPS A PASS TO DO IT AGAIN!
Police
misconduct!
BELOW IS ONLY A DROP IN THE BUCKET!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Police misconduct refers to inappropriate conduct and/or illegal
actions taken by police officers in
connection with their official duties.
Overview[edit]
Types of misconduct include: coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of
evidence, spoliation of
evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality, police corruption, racial profiling, unwarranted
surveillance, unwarranted searches,
and unwarranted seizure of
property. Other types of misconduct includes:
·
Bribing or lobbying
legislators to pass or maintain laws that give police excessive power or status
·
Similarly, bribing or
lobbying city council members to pass or maintain municipal laws that make
victimless acts ticket-able (e.g. bicycling on the sidewalk), so as to get more
money
·
Selective enforcement
("throwing the book at" people who one dislikes; this is often
related to racial discrimination)
·
Sexual misconduct[1]
·
Off-duty misconduct[2]
·
Killing of dogs unjustly[3]
·
Noble cause
corruption, where the officer believes the good outcomes justify bad
behavior[4]
·
Using badge or other ID to
gain entry into concerts, to get discounts, etc.
·
Influence of drugs or
alcohol while on duty
·
Violations by officers of
police procedural policies
Police officers often share a "blue code of silence",
which means that they do not turn each other in for misconduct. While some
officers have called this code a myth,[5] a 2005 survey found evidence
that it exists.[6] A 2019 study in the
journal Nature found that misconduct by one police officer
substantially increased the likelihood that peer officers would also engage in
misconduct.[7][8] In addition to the blue code of silence,
police misconduct also can lead to a miscarriage of
justice and sometimes the obstruction of
justice.
In an effort to control police misconduct,
there is an accelerating trend for civilian agencies to engage directly in
investigations and to have greater inputs into disciplinary decisions.
Additionally, individuals and groups are now filming police activities in an
effort to make them accountable for their actions. With the proliferation
of smart devices capable
of high-quality video recording, instances of police misconduct and abuse are
gaining attention on social media platforms and video-hosting sites such
as YouTube. To protect their interests, some
officers have resorted to verbal intimidation as well as physical violence
against citizens attempting to record their misdeeds. In other circumstances,
police will illegally seize or delete evidence recorded by citizens, in spite
of laws that make it a crime to destroy evidence of a crime being committed,
whether the crime is committed by civilians or by the police.[9][10]
Contributors and prediction[edit]
Police misconduct is sometimes associated
with conscious or unconscious discrimination. Misconduct has been shown to
be related to personality and correlated to education, but it can also be
significantly affected by the culture of the police agency.[11] Education is negatively
correlated to misconduct, with better-educated officers receiving fewer
complaints on average.[12]
Some analyses have found that changes
in structural
disadvantage, population mobility,
and immigrant population have been associated
with changes in police misconduct. Social
disorganization may create a context for police misconduct
because residents may not have in place the social networks necessary to
organize against police malpractice.[13] The fact that most police
officers enjoy broad discretion and minimal supervision has been cited as
increasing opportunities for police misconduct.[14]
Video and audio recording[edit]
Many police cars are now equipped with
recording systems, which can deter, document or rebut police misconduct during
traffic stops. Usually, the recordings have rebutted claims of police
misconduct according to a 2004 study by the International
Association of Chiefs of Police and Community Oriented Policing
Service;[15] future innovations in
recording equipment could allow an officer's entire workday to be recorded.[15] Some transparency advocates
believe that such cameras should be installed in all police cruisers to ensure
accountability.[16] Some police departments have
experimented with Taser cameras that automatically begin recording when the
Taser is deployed.[17] The Cato Institute recommends that police
film all no-knock raids.[18] In recent times, police
departments have been trying to implement the body camera as a step to fixing
misconduct. The police departments in Pittsburgh have been trying body cameras
on their officers to see both the positive and negative aspects of using body
cameras.[19]
Recording by witnesses have made a
significant impact on the notability and handling of police incidence, such as
the Rodney King beating.[according
to whom?]
Mobile devices[edit]
As digital recording technology usage has
increased, especially using cell phones, there have been more cases of civilians
capturing video of alleged police misconduct.[9][20] In response, members of law enforcement have begun using
eavesdropping and wiretapping laws to charge civilians who record police
without their knowledge. Some police organizations such as the Fraternal Order
of Police support the prosecutions.[21] In Illinois, from 1994-2014,
recording police without consent was a class 1 felony that could carry a prison
term of 15 years.[22] In a May 2012 ruling, the
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the statute "likely
violates the First Amendment’s free-speech and free-press guarantees."[23] On December 30, 2014,
then-Governor Pat Quinn signed into law an amendment to the Statute, PA
98-1142, which decriminalized the recording of law enforcement officers in the
performance of their duties in public places or in circumstances in which the
officers have no reasonable expectation of privacy.[24]
Most charges involving recording police are
dropped or dismissed as courts have ruled on-duty cops in public have no
reasonable expectation of
privacy.[9] However, police "can use
vaguer charges, such as interfering with a police officer, refusing to obey a
lawful order, obstructing an arrest or police action, or disorderly conduct."[21] Arrests for these charges are
more common, as are incidents of police illegally confiscating cameras,
deleting evidence or misinforming citizens they cannot film. This evidence has
played a key role in raising public awareness of police misconduct during and
after an incident such as the BART
Police shooting of Oscar Grant, Death of Ian
Tomlinson, Robert
Dziekański death and Death of Eric Garner.[citation
needed]
Criminal Cops: Tracking Crimes Committed by
Police Officers
by Christopher Zoukis
Police officers are sworn to uphold the law. When the uniform
goes on, they become arbiters and enforcers of right and wrong. But a new
police crime database reveals an important and often overlooked aspect of the
job: Police officers are people first, cops second. And people sometimes commit
crimes.
The database, compiled by Philip Stinson, tracks how often
police officers are arrested. Stinson, a former cop and now an associate
professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University in Ohio,
gathered data on arrests of police officers from 2005 to 2012. Stinson’s data
are limited to 2,830 state, local, and special law enforcement agencies out of
about 18,000 across the country, but nevertheless provide valuable insights.
Police crime is not as rare as the average person might think.
According to Vice News, Stinson’s data
show 8,006 arrest incidents resulting in 13,623 charges involving 6,596 police
officers from 2005 through 2012. Nearly half of the incidents were violent.
Because Stinson’s data cover fewer than 20 percent of all law enforcement
agencies and just a fraction of the 1.1 million sworn officers in the U.S., the
actual number of arrests is undoubtedly much higher.
Without efforts by researchers such as Stinson, however, we
might never know. That’s because the federal government does not collect this
kind of data. Were the government to track crimes committed by police officers,
it would rely heavily on self-reporting by police agencies. James Lynch, a former
director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and now professor at the
University of Maryland, told Vice News that there would
be an obvious problem with that method.
“You’re asking the police to tell you about the sins of their
workplace,” said Lynch. “I suspect that they wouldn’t expect high levels of
compliance. The data quality would not be good.”
Stinson and his team avoid this problem by gathering data from
media reports and court records. Google alerts lead researchers to new
incidents and help them track the status of existing arrests. It is not a
foolproof system, acknowledged Lynch, but it is “legitimate.” Jonathan Blanks,
who heads the Cato Institute’s National Police Misconduct Reporting Project,
told Vice
News that Stinson’s methods would not collect all misconduct
by police, but that it was an important step forward.
“While imperfect, tracking misconduct like this is a public
service to try to hold police accountable to the public they serve,” said
Blanks.
Stinson’s methodology is evolving, but as it currently stands,
the data show about 1,000 officer arrests per year. The most common arrest was
for simple assault, with driving while intoxicated a close second. Other
charges in the top 10 include drug violations, aggravated assault, and forcible
rape. Rookie cops were arrested more often than veterans, and over 10 percent
of the officers in the dataset were arrested more than once.
Stinson also tracked whether arrested officers lost their jobs.
Of those determined to have been convicted, 91 percent were fired. But for all
arrested officers, Stinson concluded that they lost their jobs just over half
of the time. Stinson told Vice News that he was
taken aback by these numbers.
“I always assumed that if an officer gets arrested, their career
was over,” said Stinson. “What we’re seeing is that this is not the case. Many
of these officers don’t get convicted, and many of them who actually leave
their job, lose it, or quit, end up working as police officers elsewhere. So
there’s a sort of officer shuffle that goes on.”
One major shortcoming, acknowledged by Stinson himself, is that
as a measure of the number of crimes committed by cops, the data are
necessarily incomplete. That’s because police officers provide each other with
“professional courtesy” in many interactions. Norm Stamper, a former Seattle
police chief and longtime San Diego police officer, agreed that this has been a
problem in police departments for many years, but he believes that professional
courtesy is going the way of the dinosaur.
“It [has been] understood that when you stopped a police officer
off-duty, if you rolled up to his home on a domestic violence call, you would
extend professional courtesy,” Stamper told Vice News. “Over time many
police departments have corrected that; they’ve come to the realization that it
doesn’t just look bad—it is bad.”
Stinson told Vice News that his
intention was not to criticize law enforcement. Instead, he hoped to highlight
police misconduct as a serious, systemic problem that is not uncommon and
demands attention.
“What [people] don’t realize is that this shit is happening in
communities across the country every day,” Stinson said.
Source: www.new.vice.com
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