#LeonardAllenCure had been imprisoned for 16 years in Florida despite being innocent. Shortly after having been freed though the efforts of The Innocence Project, he was stopped in Georgia, and shot to death.
I wonder whether he was driving a good car and the Georgia cops suspected him of stealing it.
Colorado started a database to keep track of corrupt/violent/criminal police officers, to make sure cops fired in one jurisdiction are hired one town over.
It's working so well that a cop who's serving time for murder is still certified, and could conceivably be hired as a cop the day he gets out of prison.
"NYC is on track to fork over more than $100 million this year in payouts for lawsuits alleging police misconduct against members of the New York City Police Department. 20 of the officers stand out over the last decade for being named in the most suits or being named in suits with the highest payouts. Of the 20, the department has promoted at least 16 of the officers, some more than once."
“If a victim of police misconduct does not want to report the alleged abuse to the department where the officer works, the victim should contact the FBI directly,” said Special Agent Jay Greenberg of the FBI St. Louis Division. “Sworn officers who taint the badge are the exception and not the rule. One of the FBI’s priorities is to root out the few to protect victims and the public’s trust in law enforcement.”
Sure, Jan #ACAB#StLouis#Pedophile https://www.kttn.com/former-phelps-county-deputy-indicted-on-child-sex-pornography-charges/
In the U.S. (at least) there are two types of reporters: those who function as stenographers à la Maggie Haberman for access to police, politicians, etc., and those who put their bodies and livelihoods on the line, like Josie Huang, who was tackled, arrested and charged by the LAPD, despite video evidence of her innocence being publicly available from day one. You can't reform that shit.
Also worth noting that the only reason this one reporter got a settlement is because she had incontrovertible, timestamped, public proof of the violence the cops subjected her to, AND some serious lawyers behind her.
And even then, it took over three years to reach this settlement, which will be paid by the taxpayers and not the cops.
Politicians and cops from coast to coast and border to border insist that we need to hire more cops--and pay them more--to "control" crime; meanwhile, people who report crimes are either treated like criminals or simply not believed.
Day laborers tried to report that Sam Haskell hired them to dump bags full of body parts, and two police stations fobbed them off.
Police and the courts have colluded to let the sons of an Alaskan mayor get away with murder; both the mayor and his sons have been accused of beating and choking women, with the three sons racking up 31 documented assaults on six women.
But everyone mobilized and raised $ for a missing dog.
CW: graphic violence against women, systemic indifference to their suffering
Local paper The Tennessee Lookout has been following the story of a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney who is suing #JohnsonCityMO, the top cop and individual other cops therein, over willfully and actively obstructing her investigation of a serial rapist.
You can't reform this: the video at the top of the piece shows a man filming a cop, while another cop comes from the side and pushes the man so hard his feet leave the ground and he falls flat. It's a miracle he didn't crack the back of his skull on the pavement.
The cop, who has a history of violence and assault, then writes in the official report that the victim "lost his footing".
Up thread, in a post on October 25, I linked to this NBC News piece about Dexter Wade, who was killed by a cop car, then buried in a pauper's field without bothering to notify his family.
The cop who murdered #ElijahMcClain got his job back, with over 200,000 in back pay.
The murder was documented, but juries have been trained to privilege cops over everyone and everything else; cops are at the top of the food chain, and we are all so much chum.
You can't reform a system that privileges cops right to kill people.
Made my day, because #ACAB includes so-called "correction officers" (aka institutionally supported abusers and torturers--it's not hyperbole, read about it: NY's Rikers is infamous, but not the only or worst one by far)
Every year, police departments in the U.S. inflate their budgets, and get more money for equipment (guns, bullets, tasers, tanks, etc). Meanwhile, all over the country, rape kits sit unprocessed--or even uncollected--while victims do everything they can to get justice.
And then assholes wonder why rape victims don't go to the cops.
Want proof that copaganda works even with people who think they see the problem?
The first image is the tweet (police crash into a bar, arrest one of the owners), the second is one of the replies ("both stories sound like 12 year olds...").
The facts: cops crashed into a business and arrested the business owner, and now the story isn't that the fucking cops CRASHED INTO A BUSINESS, but that the business owner "attacked" a cop.
tweet by @ChillBytes: The cops story is that the bar owner screamed at him, hit him on his chest, and then ran away. The owner tells a completely different story. Both stories sound like they were devised by a 12 year old trying to cover up what really happened.
A woman learns her ex-cop husband has been abusing children at the daycare she operates and shots him--and the judge slaps her with a sentence TWICE the length recommended by prosecutors, essentially breaking a plea agreement.
This happens far too often: a woman calls 911 asking for help in a domestic violence incident, the cops get there and shoot her dead within seconds--with her 9 year old daughter standing next to her.
The fucker who murdered had already murdered another innocent unarmed person with impunity.
You can't reform a cesspool; you shut that shit down entirely.
This is never that one cop; it's every cop who laughs at this shit, it's every cop who shrugs it off, it's a system that considers cops special citizens, granting them immunity from crimes--whether they're on or off duty--and believes them even after they've been proven liars.
215 bodies buried in paupers graves. Many are missing people whose families never stopped looking for them, who were not notified even as they were in the system. Others were killed by the cops.
People are being told they need to buy the remains of their loved ones who were tossed like garbage behind the jail..
Buy.
the bodies or skeletons of their loved one from those who threw them away.
Cops, no matter their numbers, do not prevent crime.
In fact, the more cops in any area, the more violent crime those cops will commit against minorities, the more likely they'll commit fraud against the city/county/state paying them, and outright steal WHILE ON DUTY.
As cops are protected by qualified immunity, as well as a society that automatically assumes they're entitled to trust and to be regarded as heroes, they crime again and again and again, until retirement.
Via PBS News Hour: "The discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief."
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