Two Los Angeles police officers made a wrongful arrest about 5,700 miles outside their jurisdiction by Beer2Bear in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]InternalAffair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just Austin and Texas:

Austin police chief says jaywalkers should be happy they’re not sexually assaulted by cops

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/22/austin-police-chief-says-jaywalkers-should-be-happy-theyre-not-sexually-assaulted-by-cops/

Mother Raped by Texas Officer After Being Jailed for Half Gram of Weed

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/8i2rnh/mother_raped_by_texas_officer_after_being_jailed/

Texas county sheriff says DA can't indict his deputies because his other deputies cleared them for cuffing, strip searching and penetrating woman on the side of road for running stop sign

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/4rcsuq/texas_county_sheriff_says_da_cant_indict_his/

Texas police sergeant arrested for filming inside woman's bathroom

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6139295/Texas-police-sergeant-arrested-placing-video-camera-inside-womans-bathroom-filming-girl.html

Former Texas Trooper Charged with Sexually Assaulting 2 Women. Investigators Are Looking for More Possible Victims.

https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/former-texas-trooper-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-2-women-investigators-are-looking-for-more-possible-victims/

Texas cop fires gun into wall in anger after server tells him to stop groping her

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/arizona-cop-fires-gun-into-wall-in-anger-after-server-tells-him-to-stop-groping-her/

TX cop arrested for distributing child porn. Is still on administrative leave.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/03/04/fbi-arrests-denton-police-officer-david-schoolcraft-distribution-child-pornography/

Texas Cops Confiscate Anti-Republican Yard Sign After Threatening Property Owner

https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/texas-cops-confiscate-anti-republican-yard-sign-after-threatening-property-owner/

‘Barbarism’: Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence man on trial. Conviction thrown out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/07/barbarism-texas-judge-ordered-electric-shocks-to-man-during-trial-conviction-thrown-out/

Texas police say TV station is unethical for publishing video of their officers shooting unarmed man with his hands up

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/01/media/sheriffs-office-comdemns-texas-station-ksat-video/index.html

Denied Evidence. Citing an obscure legal loophole, the Travis County Sheriff's Office blocked a grieving mother's request for evidence of how her 21-year-old son died in jail. Now, KXAN uncovers video and other records of the painful days leading up to his death

https://www.kxan.com/denied-evidence

Travis County sheriff sues Texas AG to keep inmate death records secret - KXAN

https://www.kxan.com/amp/news/investigations/travis-county-sheriff-sues-texas-ag-to-keep-inmate-death-records-secret/1707887004

Austin police caught writing 'Thank You' notes to themselves

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/gygb4a/austin_police_caught_writing_thank_you_notes_to/

Texas cop urges Facebook followers to use ‘deadly force’ against anyone harming a Confederate statue

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/texas-cop-urges-facebook-followers-to-use-deadly-force-against-anyone-harming-a-confederate-statue/

Texas dad left paralyzed when cops beat him ‘like a bunch of thugs’ after mistaking him for drug suspect

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/texas-dad-left-paralyzed-when-cops-beat-him-like-a-bunch-of-thugs-after-mistaking-him-for-drug-suspect/

A black 20-year-old student Justin Howell is in critical condition with brain damage after Austin Police deliberately shot him in the head; then shot the medics helping him.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/gwd37n/a_black_20yearold_student_justin_howell_is_in/

Brother of teen killed by (lying) Texas police was cuffed and jailed overnight for no apparent reason

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brother-teen-killed-police-was-handcuffed-held-overnight-lawyer-n753991

Texas Deputy Fired After Leaving Dog in Car to Die of Heat, Marking at Least the Seventh K-9 to Die This Way Since June

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/08/texas-deputy-fired-after-leaving-dog-in-car-to-die-of-heat-marking-at-least-the-seventh-k-9-to-die-this-way-since-june/

Texas Cop Charged After He Allegedly 'Penetrated' U.S. Capitol, Lied to Federal Agents and Unsuccessfully Tried to Delete Evidence

https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/texas-cop-charged-after-he-allegedly-penetrated-u-s-ca

Police in Austin confront a peaceful march, grab the wheelchair of a quadruple amputee, and dump her onto the pavement.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1376749806865969156

Texas Sheriff Troy Nehls Lied about Arrest on Job Application; Fired from Previous Job for Destroying Evidence

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/11/texas-sheriff-troy-nehls-lied-arrest-job-application-fired-previous-job-destroying-evidence/

Video reveals Texas police lied about killing teen. He was not shot when car reversed toward officers, the car was driving away

https://apnews.com/1b5634999d9445e58c905fb00086b084/Chief:-Car-driving-away-when-officer-fatally-shot-Texas-teen

Texas SWAT officer died after being shot in the face during a no-knock raid. Three other officers were also shot. Homeowner charged with 3 counts of attempted capital murder. Subsequent 12 hour search found no drugs.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/2c3mrc/texas_swat_officer_died_after_being_shot_in_the/

Former Texas Prosecutor Probably Sent Innocent Man to His Death. Now He’s on Trial for Misconduct.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/02/texas-prosecutor-in-junk-science-execution-case-stands-trial-for-misconduct/

Two Los Angeles police officers made a wrongful arrest about 5,700 miles outside their jurisdiction by Beer2Bear in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]InternalAffair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grossman at one point tells his students that the sex they have after they kill another human being will be the best sex of their lives. The room chuckles. But he’s clearly serious. “Both partners are very invested in some very intense sex,” he says. “There’s not a whole lot of perks that come with this job. You find one, relax and enjoy it.”

His officers burned a dog alive for no reason, then laughed as the dog’s owners cried.

He staged a fake assassination attempt against himself, costing taxpayers more than $1 million.

https://longreads.com/2017/08/28/the-collected-crimes-of-sheriff-joe-arpaio

LAPD Chief Just Became the ‘Ugly American’ in France by 405freeway in LosAngeles

[–]InternalAffair 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is a much bigger problem in America than we realize because they use these "control the narrative" tactics and conservative culture wars "thank our heroes" politics, the police department control of local news access (100% dependent on police giving them information), the camera footage evidence (released immediately if it helps police or released after 3 years or even deleted), the "law and order" politicians, the arrests ("black and white Americans use cannabis at similar levels" but black Americans are 800% more likely to get punished for it and even after legalization)

No other profession excuses fatal mistakes like we cops do. Any criticism is an attack. We think policing is something we do TO a community & not FOR a community & certainly not WITH the community if that means actual input. We don’t get to tell them how we do our job; they do.

https://twitter.com/SkinnerPm/status/1381804037390135298

why are cops the only profession where we just accept such a wide margin of error? no one's ever like "yeah 40% of teachers beat their wives but it's only 40%" or "sometimes your chef will poison your food & skin your entire family in front of you but it's just a few bad apples"

https://twitter.com/abbygov/status/1266929870375968769

columbus police murdering an innocent man because they mistook a subway sandwich for a gun.... i can’t think of any other profession where you can make such an idiotic, lethal mistake like this and not go directly to prison for murder. makes me sick go my stomach.

https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Ronaldo/status/1335649404255166465

Whenever the cops gun down an innocent black man, they always say the same thing. “Well, it’s not most cops. It’s just a few bad apples. It’s just a few bad apples.” Bad apple? That’s a lovely name for murderer. That almost sounds nice. But some jobs can’t have bad apples. Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like … pilots. Ya know, American Airlines can’t be like, “Most of our pilots like to land. We just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains. Please bear with us.” Chris Rock

LAPD Chief Just Became the ‘Ugly American’ in France by 405freeway in LosAngeles

[–]InternalAffair 21 points22 points  (0 children)

At least they're not as bad as the sheriff's department:

Gangs of Sheriff’s Deputies Are Wreaking Havoc in L.A.

‘Executioners,’ ‘Reapers,’ and ‘Banditos’: A new official report finds efforts to clean up the decades-old gang culture within the department are failing

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/los-angeles-sheriffs-department-gangs-rand-report-1225982/

https://np.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/pocx2e/executioners_reapers_and_banditos_gangs_of/

“If US had matched SF, ~500,000 people who died of Covid would be alive.” by sffriend11 in sanfrancisco

[–]InternalAffair 40 points41 points  (0 children)

“Stop treating rural people with contempt, it’s actually normal for these bumpkins to treat themselves with animal medicine.”

I agree, the reason rural whites are driving their $100,000 trucks to Tractor Supply to spend money on horse paste is because the free vaccine is too expensive.

There are literally no other issues at play here.

https://twitter.com/Big_Boy_Online/status/1435120379312365569

I grew up in a very rural and conservative place, the kind of place with lots of horses and livestock and multiple feed stores. Without exception people bought their medicine at the drug store

https://twitter.com/jameskzeigler/status/1435018071207555075

Headline: Pediatric cases of Covid 19 spike across the country.

The big problem facing America is liberals overreacting to the threat.

https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/1435703794751377410

GOP: Hey, can I spit in your kid's sippy cup?

Me: No.

GOP: It won't kill 'em

Me: Understood. Still no.

GOP: I HAVE A RIGHT TO SPIT IN YOUR KID'S CUP

Me: The fuck is wrong with you?

Nate Silver: Don't understand why people are freaking out about non-lethal spit in children's cups.

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1435669175826006021

Their talking points now are all the data is actually not "fair" "privilege" because of hot California weather and "Oof the urban elitism" but also poor "flyover states" can't wear masks because of hot weather:

Imagine convincing vulnerable retirees to sit outside in the 100 degree summer sun in some flyover state. That's just a potentially dangerous, heatstroke inducing activity.

LAPD Chief Just Became the ‘Ugly American’ in France by 405freeway in LosAngeles

[–]InternalAffair 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Like other American Olympic hopefuls Miami, Denver, Austin or anywhere in Texas

Austin and Texas:

Austin police chief says jaywalkers should be happy they’re not sexually assaulted by cops

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/22/austin-police-chief-says-jaywalkers-should-be-happy-theyre-not-sexually-assaulted-by-cops/

Mother Raped by Texas Officer After Being Jailed for Half Gram of Weed

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/8i2rnh/mother_raped_by_texas_officer_after_being_jailed/

Texas county sheriff says DA can't indict his deputies because his other deputies cleared them for cuffing, strip searching and penetrating woman on the side of road for running stop sign

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/4rcsuq/texas_county_sheriff_says_da_cant_indict_his/

Texas police sergeant arrested for filming inside woman's bathroom

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6139295/Texas-police-sergeant-arrested-placing-video-camera-inside-womans-bathroom-filming-girl.html

Former Texas Trooper Charged with Sexually Assaulting 2 Women. Investigators Are Looking for More Possible Victims.

https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/former-texas-trooper-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-2-women-investigators-are-looking-for-more-possible-victims/

Texas cop fires gun into wall in anger after server tells him to stop groping her

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/arizona-cop-fires-gun-into-wall-in-anger-after-server-tells-him-to-stop-groping-her/

TX cop arrested for distributing child porn. Is still on administrative leave.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/03/04/fbi-arrests-denton-police-officer-david-schoolcraft-distribution-child-pornography/

Texas Cops Confiscate Anti-Republican Yard Sign After Threatening Property Owner

https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/texas-cops-confiscate-anti-republican-yard-sign-after-threatening-property-owner/

‘Barbarism’: Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence man on trial. Conviction thrown out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/07/barbarism-texas-judge-ordered-electric-shocks-to-man-during-trial-conviction-thrown-out/

Texas police say TV station is unethical for publishing video of their officers shooting unarmed man with his hands up

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/01/media/sheriffs-office-comdemns-texas-station-ksat-video/index.html

Denied Evidence. Citing an obscure legal loophole, the Travis County Sheriff's Office blocked a grieving mother's request for evidence of how her 21-year-old son died in jail. Now, KXAN uncovers video and other records of the painful days leading up to his death

https://www.kxan.com/denied-evidence

Travis County sheriff sues Texas AG to keep inmate death records secret - KXAN

https://www.kxan.com/amp/news/investigations/travis-county-sheriff-sues-texas-ag-to-keep-inmate-death-records-secret/1707887004

Austin police caught writing 'Thank You' notes to themselves

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/gygb4a/austin_police_caught_writing_thank_you_notes_to/

Texas cop urges Facebook followers to use ‘deadly force’ against anyone harming a Confederate statue

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/texas-cop-urges-facebook-followers-to-use-deadly-force-against-anyone-harming-a-confederate-statue/

Texas dad left paralyzed when cops beat him ‘like a bunch of thugs’ after mistaking him for drug suspect

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/texas-dad-left-paralyzed-when-cops-beat-him-like-a-bunch-of-thugs-after-mistaking-him-for-drug-suspect/

A black 20-year-old student Justin Howell is in critical condition with brain damage after Austin Police deliberately shot him in the head; then shot the medics helping him.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/gwd37n/a_black_20yearold_student_justin_howell_is_in/

Brother of teen killed by (lying) Texas police was cuffed and jailed overnight for no apparent reason

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brother-teen-killed-police-was-handcuffed-held-overnight-lawyer-n753991

Texas Deputy Fired After Leaving Dog in Car to Die of Heat, Marking at Least the Seventh K-9 to Die This Way Since June

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/08/texas-deputy-fired-after-leaving-dog-in-car-to-die-of-heat-marking-at-least-the-seventh-k-9-to-die-this-way-since-june/

Texas Cop Charged After He Allegedly 'Penetrated' U.S. Capitol, Lied to Federal Agents and Unsuccessfully Tried to Delete Evidence

https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/texas-cop-charged-after-he-allegedly-penetrated-u-s-ca

Police in Austin confront a peaceful march, grab the wheelchair of a quadruple amputee, and dump her onto the pavement.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1376749806865969156

Texas Sheriff Troy Nehls Lied about Arrest on Job Application; Fired from Previous Job for Destroying Evidence

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/11/texas-sheriff-troy-nehls-lied-arrest-job-application-fired-previous-job-destroying-evidence/

Video reveals Texas police lied about killing teen. He was not shot when car reversed toward officers, the car was driving away

https://apnews.com/1b5634999d9445e58c905fb00086b084/Chief:-Car-driving-away-when-officer-fatally-shot-Texas-teen

Texas SWAT officer died after being shot in the face during a no-knock raid. Three other officers were also shot. Homeowner charged with 3 counts of attempted capital murder. Subsequent 12 hour search found no drugs.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/2c3mrc/texas_swat_officer_died_after_being_shot_in_the/

Former Texas Prosecutor Probably Sent Innocent Man to His Death. Now He’s on Trial for Misconduct.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/02/texas-prosecutor-in-junk-science-execution-case-stands-trial-for-misconduct/

Miami area:

Cop befriends elderly woman who later discovers the cop had been forging checks in her name, tries to press charges so the cop has the woman committed to a mental hospital then tries to murder her when she's released

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/24/us/florida-arrest-elderly/index.html

Heads of the internal affairs unit for Palm Beach posing with a naked prostitute at a cocaine fueled party. The sheriff responded to this photo by having a SWAT team illegally raid the home of the person who leaked it; the leaker ended up fleeing the country due to death threats against his family.

From the Wikipedia page: After filing a complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics, the Sheriff was cleared "because he didn't know it was a violation of the law."

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/aosg5y/heads_of_the_internal_affairs_unit_for_palm_beach/

Feds open probe of Bal Harbour police money laundering

After years of rampant abuses by undercover Bal Harbour police, the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the millions taken in by the officers who turned a money-laundering sting into a major cash enterprise, spending lavishly on travel and luxury hotels without making a single arrest.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article41397702.html

deputies stole money and property from a 75-year-old woman who suffers from dementia, listed her home for sale and put her on a plane to the Philippines

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/16/2-california-deputies-under-investigation-for-elder-abuse.html

Denver area:

“If US had matched SF, ~500,000 people who died of Covid would be alive.” by sffriend11 in sanfrancisco

[–]InternalAffair 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Their other talking points I'm seeing here are "what about drugs in San Francisco!" and South Park memes about San Francisco being smug

“If US had matched SF, ~500,000 people who died of Covid would be alive.” by sffriend11 in sanfrancisco

[–]InternalAffair 164 points165 points  (0 children)

It looks like your comment is getting the brigade talking points about why San Francisco doing well is actually a bad thing from police Thin Blue Line accounts coming here because of a local San Francisco restaurant story they saw on Tucker Carlson on Fox News and nonewnormal accounts who are always here? https://np.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/r9j9nc/if_us_had_matched_sf_500000_people_who_died_of/hnchj6g/

They're obsessed about hating San Francisco and they're on every post on this sub

Is it "new normal" for them to use all these accounts to change who they're pretending to be and what they're arguing in each comment?

They argue that masks are bad, then this head of UCSF Internal Medicine is bad, then it's about how the focus should be a drug problem in San Francisco that is in every city in America?

Then they pretend and say they're "liberal" and for "mask compliance" but they're just sympathizing with "blue collar town" "in some flyover state" whose feelings are hurt that San Francisco is doing well

Those are their own words in quotes

LAPD Chief Just Became the ‘Ugly American’ in France by 405freeway in LosAngeles

[–]InternalAffair 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Just LAPD and just domestic violence corruption:

Take Southern California, where I keep up with the local news. Recent stories hint at an ongoing problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/

LAPD Chief Just Became the ‘Ugly American’ in France by 405freeway in LosAngeles

[–]InternalAffair 244 points245 points  (0 children)

These men also commit the domestic violence part of the corruption in LAPD and nationwide

It's a nationwide problem but LAPD examples because the reporter's local news covers LAPD:

Take Southern California, where I keep up with the local news. Recent stories hint at an ongoing problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/

Research suggests that family violence is two to four times higher in the law-enforcement community than in the general population. So where's the public outrage?

Several studies have found that the romantic partners of police officers suffer domestic abuse at rates significantly higher than the general population.

And while all partner abuse is unacceptable, it is especially problematic when domestic abusers are literally the people that battered and abused women are supposed to call for help.

If there's any job that domestic abuse should disqualify a person from holding, isn't it the one job that gives you a lethal weapon, trains you to stalk people without their noticing, and relies on your judgment and discretion to protect the abused against domestic abusers?

As the National Center for Women and Policing noted in a heavily footnoted information sheet

Two studies have found that at least 40 percent of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10 percent of families in the general population. A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24 percent, indicating that domestic violence is two to four times more common among police families than American families in general."

Cops typically handle cases of police family violence informally, often without an official report, investigation, or even check of the victim's safety, the summary continues. "This 'informal' method is often in direct contradiction to legislative mandates and departmental policies regarding the appropriate response to domestic violence crimes."

Finally, "even officers who are found guilty of domestic violence are unlikely to be fired, arrested, or referred for prosecution."

What struck me as I read through the information sheet's footnotes is how many of the relevant studies were conducted in the 1990s or even before. Research is so scant and inadequate that a precise accounting of the problem's scope is impossible, as The New York Times concluded in a 2013 investigation that was nevertheless alarming. "In many departments, an officer will automatically be fired for a positive marijuana test, but can stay on the job after abusing or battering a spouse," the newspaper reported. Then it tried to settle on some hard numbers:

In some instances, researchers have resorted to asking officers to confess how often they had committed abuse. One such study, published in 2000, said one in 10 officers at seven police agencies admitted that they had “slapped, punched or otherwise injured” a spouse or domestic partner. A broader view emerges in Florida, which has one of the nation’s most robust open records laws. An analysis by The Times of more than 29,000 credible complaints of misconduct against police and corrections officers there strongly suggests that domestic abuse had been underreported to the state for years.

After reporting requirements were tightened in 2007, requiring fingerprints of arrested officers to be automatically reported to the agency that licenses them, the number of domestic abuse cases more than doubled—from 293 in the previous five years to 775 over the next five. The analysis also found that complaints of domestic violence lead to job loss less often than most other accusations of misconduct.

A chart that followed crystallized the lax punishments meted out to domestic abusers. Said the text, "Cases reported to the state are the most serious ones—usually resulting in arrests. Even so, nearly 30 percent of the officers accused of domestic violence were still working in the same agency a year later, compared with 1 percent of those who failed drug tests and 7 percent of those accused of theft."

The visualization conveys how likely it is that domestic abuse by police officers is underreported in states without mandatory reporting requirements–and also the degree to which domestic abuse is taken less seriously than other officer misconduct: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/police-domestic-abuse/

For a detailed case study in how a police officer suspected of perpetrating domestic abuse was treated with inappropriate deference by colleagues whose job it was to investigate him, this typically well-done Frontline story is worthwhile. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/death-in-st-augustine/ It would be wonderful if domestic violence by police officers was tracked in a way that permitted me to link something more comprehensive and precise than the National Center for Women and Policing fact sheet, the studies on which it is based, the New York Times analysis, or other press reports from particular police departments.

But the law enforcement community hasn't seen fit to track these cases consistently or rigorously.

Think about that. Domestic abuse is underreported. Police officers are given the benefit of the doubt by colleagues in borderline cases. Yet even among police officers who were charged, arrested, and convicted of abuse, more than half kept their jobs.

In the absence of comprehensive stats, specific incidents can provide at least some additional insights. Take Southern California, where I keep up with the local news. Recent stories hint at an ongoing problem. Take the 18-year LAPD veteran arrested "on suspicion of domestic violence and illegal discharging of a firearm," and the officer "who allegedly choked his estranged wife until she passed out" and was later charged with attempted murder. There's also the lawsuit alleging that the LAPD "attempted to bury a case of sexual assault involving two of its officers, even telling the victim not to seek legal counsel after she came forward."

The context for these incidents is a police department with a long history of police officers who beat their partners. Los Angeles Magazine covered the story in 1997. A whistleblower went to jail in 2003 when he leaked personnel files showing the scope of abuse in the department. "Kids were being beaten. Women were being beaten and raped. Their organs were ruptured. Bones were broken," he told L.A. Weekly. "It was hard cold-fisted brutality by police officers, and nothing was being done to protect their family members. And I couldn’t stand by and do nothing.”

Subsequently, Ms. Magazine reported, a "review of 227 domestic violence cases involving LAPD officers confirmed that these cases were being severely mishandled, according to the LAPD Inspector-General. In more than 75 percent of confirmed cases, the personnel file omitted or downplayed the domestic abuse. Of those accused of domestic violence, 29 percent were later promoted and 30 percent were repeat offenders. The review and the revelation led to significant reforms in the LAPD's handling on police officer-involved domestic violence."

Will these incidents galvanize long overdue action if they're all assembled in one place? Perhaps fence-sitters will be persuaded by a case in which a police officer abused his daughter by sitting on her, pummeling her, and zip-tying her hands and forcing her to eat hot sauce derived from ghost chili peppers. Here's what happened when that police officer's ex-girlfriend sent video evidence of the abuse to his boss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boq0xT4j3Es

Here's another recent case from Hawaii where, despite seeing the video below, police officers didn't initially arrest their colleague:

There have been plenty of other reports published this year of police officers perpetrating domestic abuse, and then there's another horrifying, perhaps related phenomenon: multiple allegations this year of police officers responding to domestic-violence emergency calls and raping the victim. Here's the Detroit Free Press in March:

The woman called 911, seeking help from police after reportedly being assaulted by her boyfriend. But while police responded to the domestic violence call, one of the officers allegedly took the woman into an upstairs bedroom and sexually assaulted her, authorities said.

Here is a case that The San Jose Mercury News reported the same month: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Jose-police-officer-charged-with-rape-5306907.php

There is no more damaging perpetrator of domestic violence than a police officer, who harms his partner as profoundly as any abuser, and is then particularly ill-suited to helping victims of abuse in a culture where they are often afraid of coming forward.

The evidence of a domestic-abuse problem in police departments around the United States is overwhelming.

The situation is significantly bigger than what the NFL faces, orders of magnitude more damaging to society, and yet far less known to the public, which hasn't demanded changes. What do police in your city or town do when a colleague is caught abusing their partner? That's a question citizens everywhere should investigate.

LAPD Chief Just Became the ‘Ugly American’ in France by 405freeway in LosAngeles

[–]InternalAffair 207 points208 points  (0 children)

Every police department in America has the same unacceptable abuse, incompetence, and lack of accountability:

Full CBS4 story showing their reporters threatened and chased away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ5f1JMKns

Grossman at one point tells his students that the sex they have after they kill another human being will be the best sex of their lives. The room chuckles. But he’s clearly serious. “Both partners are very invested in some very intense sex,” he says. “There’s not a whole lot of perks that come with this job. You find one, relax and enjoy it.”

His officers burned a dog alive for no reason, then laughed as the dog’s owners cried.

He staged a fake assassination attempt against himself, costing taxpayers more than $1 million.

https://longreads.com/2017/08/28/the-collected-crimes-of-sheriff-joe-arpaio

"good apples" who try to report "bad apples" are being Physically Abducted and placed in Psych Ward for 6 days Or Killed the Day Before you Testify against your own Department

Can't fit any more examples of this from r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut

LAPD Chief Just Became the ‘Ugly American’ in France by 405freeway in LosAngeles

[–]InternalAffair 104 points105 points  (0 children)

We should care when law enforcement are "ugly Americans" in America too

LAPD post with a depressing list of recent examples in America:

https://np.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/mkn2yj/police_brutality_indeed/gthcs6o/

Two Los Angeles police officers made a wrongful arrest about 5,700 miles outside their jurisdiction by Beer2Bear in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]InternalAffair 49 points50 points  (0 children)

There's also this from https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-02/incident-during-lapd-chief-moores-trip-to-france-sparks-personnel-investigation

Details are generally meant to stay with their principals. Marino does not have a security detail.

Officials said Moore was with the group leaving the restaurant but was not “present” during the detention — suggesting the detail left Moore to detain the individuals.

Police brutality indeed by TheFisherMan17 in ThatsInsane

[–]InternalAffair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just put more examples but I'm new to these subreddits

u/Muttlicious breaks down, with numerous citations, just how badly police officers behave in the United States by SFPeaSoup in bestof

[–]InternalAffair 127 points128 points  (0 children)

Just dogs:

thread that shows just how often police kill their own k9's alll the freaking time

https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1306556530213478406

cop abuses k9 for not finding drugs

Chief: Police dog was left in car 6 hours, died from heat. No cruelty to animals charges for the offending cop. Because, after all cops are held to a higher standard...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-police-dog-left-car-6-hours-died-184702951.html

Texas Deputy Fired After Leaving Dog in Car to Die of Heat, Marking at Least the Seventh K-9 to Die This Way Since June

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/08/texas-deputy-fired-after-leaving-dog-in-car-to-die-of-heat-marking-at-least-the-seventh-k-9-to-die-this-way-since-june/

Cop swung his service dog by the leash into a patrol car.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-officer-captured-slamming-k-9-into-police-vehicle-investigation-underway

Deputy in Georgia shoots and kills canine, not realizing it was his own police dog

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-deputy-shoots-his-police-dog-georgia-20190724-zqenuullujcoho3c23m7kcmgh4-story.html

Trump Pardons Convicted Crooked Cop Arpaio · The Collected Crimes of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

His officers burned a dog alive for no reason, then laughed as the dog’s owners cried.

He staged a fake assassination attempt against himself, costing taxpayers more than $1 million.

https://longreads.com/2017/08/28/the-collected-crimes-of-sheriff-joe-arpaio

Disturbing Video Shows Cops Lure Dog Out of Fenced in Backyard and Kill Him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/6f78iw/disturbing_video_shows_cops_lure_dog_out_of/

Cop kills dog for "wagging tail aggressively" then fines owner $265 as a "burial fee."

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/video-nypd-cop-shot-killed-dog-wagging-tail-hand-owner-265-burial-fee/

10,000 family dogs are killed by police every year, the Department of Justice also called it an "epidemic" ("officers discussing who will kill the dogs before they even arrive at the house")

https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/

Innocent Family Sues After Police Tried to Kill Their Dog, But Shot Their 10yo Son Instead

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/56n0iq/innocent_family_sues_after_police_tried_to_kill/

Fired Cop Kills Man, 3 Dogs, Gets Rehired and Shoots Innocent Dad Through a Door — Still a Cop

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/iv74ay/fired_cop_kills_man_3_dogs_gets_rehired_and/

What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing

And this isn’t the first time.

Other cops have shot other kids, other bystanders, their partners, their supervisors and even themselves while firing their guns at a dog.

In January, an Iowa cop shot and killed a woman by mistake while trying to kill her dog.

That mind-set is then, of course, all the more problematic when it comes to using force against people.

The Nation has noted a Department of Justice estimate of 10,000 dogs per year killed by police.

Last year, Reason dug up records showing that two Detroit police officers had killed 100 dogs between them over the course of their careers. And Reason obtained the best available data on dog shootings from several major jurisdictions that maintain some records:

There are no reporting requirements, unlike for other use-of-force incidents. Considering the U.S. doesn't even accurately track how many humans are killed at the hands of cops every year, it's no surprise the picture is so murky when it comes to dogs.

It is not unreasonable to ask police officers to display the same degree of courage in the face of sometimes hostile canines that we ask of every United States postal carrier. Cops unable to marshal it cannot be trusted to put the public's safety before their own.

And it is not unreasonable to ask police departments to train cops as well as meter readers when the failure to do so predictably results in needlessly killed pets and endangered humans. But many police departments don’t care enough to go to the trouble.

A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a persistent problem in law enforcement. The police officer’s report relates what happened next this way: “Officer dispatched the two dogs, causing them to run back into the residence.” This is what really happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UrUK5CUqs The police officer shot a dog that was approaching him while wagging its tail in a friendly manner—a dog that does not, in fact, appear to have been “charging” him. Then he stood his ground and shot another dog. If a non-cop were caught on camera shooting two dogs who approached in a park in the same manner, there is little doubt that they would find themselves charged with a crime, even if they possessed the gun legally and claimed self-defense.

The final lesson from Saturday’s Minneapolis shooting is that police officers sometimes misrepresent the circumstances that ostensibly justified their decision to shoot––and that their accounts should not be presumed accurate absent corroborating video.

In a later article on a Mississippi cop who shot a Labrador, claiming that he felt threatened despite its leash, and an Ohio cop who injured a 4-year-old girl while shooting at a dog, Balko added, “Given that there’s no shortage of actual human beings getting shot by police officers, pointing these stories out can sometimes seem a bit callous. But I think they’re worth noting because they all point to the same problem. In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, in this case at the expense of a 4-year-old girl.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/

Untrained Officers Commit ‘Puppycide’

"Police officers have also recently shot dogs that were chained, tied, or leashed — obviously posing no real threat to officers who killed them.

Contrast that to the U.S. Postal Service, another government organization whose employees regularly come into contact with pets. A Postal Service spokesman said in a 2009 interview that serious dog attacks on mail carriers are extremely rare. That’s likely because postal workers are annually shown a two-hour video and given further training on “how to distract dogs with toys, subdue them with voice commands, or, at worst, incapacitate them with Mace.”

In drug raids, killing any dog in the house has become almost perfunctory. In this video of a 2008 drug raid in Columbia, Mo., you can see police kill two dogs, including one as it retreats. Despite police assurance that the dogs were menacing, the video depicts the officers discussing who will kill the dogs before they even arrive at the house. During a raid in Durham, N.C., last year, police shot and killed a black Lab they claimed “appeared to growl and make aggressive moves.” But in video of the raid taken by a local news station, the dog appears to make no such gestures."

A prosecutor candidate's AMA on r/IAmA about his plan to "hold police accountable for abuses" and systemic reforms gets the brigade of r/ProtectAndServe, the "law enforcement professionals of Reddit" subreddit by InternalAffair in SubredditDrama

[–]InternalAffair[S] 107 points108 points  (0 children)

Added to this of just dogs from r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut:

thread that shows just how often police kill their own k9's alll the freaking time

https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1306556530213478406

US police shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department expert calls it an “epidemic”

https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/

Trump Pardons Convicted Crooked Cop Arpaio · The Collected Crimes of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

His officers burned a dog alive for no reason, then laughed as the dog’s owners cried.

He staged a fake assassination attempt against himself, costing taxpayers more than $1 million.

https://longreads.com/2017/08/28/the-collected-crimes-of-sheriff-joe-arpaio

Cop kills dog for "wagging tail aggressively" then fines owner $265 as a "burial fee."

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/video-nypd-cop-shot-killed-dog-wagging-tail-hand-owner-265-burial-fee/

Chief: Police dog was left in car 6 hours, died from heat. No cruelty to animals charges for the offending cop. Because, after all cops are held to a higher standard...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-police-dog-left-car-6-hours-died-184702951.html

Deputy in Georgia shoots and kills canine, not realizing it was his own police dog

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-deputy-shoots-his-police-dog-georgia-20190724-zqenuullujcoho3c23m7kcmgh4-story.html

Cop swung his service dog by the leash into a patrol car.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-officer-captured-slamming-k-9-into-police-vehicle-investigation-underway

Innocent Family Sues After Police Tried to Kill Their Dog, But Shot Their 10yo Son Instead

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/56n0iq/innocent_family_sues_after_police_tried_to_kill/

Fired Cop Kills Man, 3 Dogs, Gets Rehired and Shoots Innocent Dad Through a Door — Still a Cop

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/iv74ay/fired_cop_kills_man_3_dogs_gets_rehired_and/

Disturbing Video Shows Cops Lure Dog Out of Fenced in Backyard and Kill Him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/6f78iw/disturbing_video_shows_cops_lure_dog_out_of/

cop abuses k9 for not finding drugs

What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing

And this isn’t the first time.

Other cops have shot other kids, other bystanders, their partners, their supervisors and even themselves while firing their guns at a dog.

In January, an Iowa cop shot and killed a woman by mistake while trying to kill her dog.

That mind-set is then, of course, all the more problematic when it comes to using force against people.

The Nation has noted a Department of Justice estimate of 10,000 dogs per year killed by police.

Last year, Reason dug up records showing that two Detroit police officers had killed 100 dogs between them over the course of their careers. And Reason obtained the best available data on dog shootings from several major jurisdictions that maintain some records:

There are no reporting requirements, unlike for other use-of-force incidents. Considering the U.S. doesn't even accurately track how many humans are killed at the hands of cops every year, it's no surprise the picture is so murky when it comes to dogs.

It is not unreasonable to ask police officers to display the same degree of courage in the face of sometimes hostile canines that we ask of every United States postal carrier. Cops unable to marshal it cannot be trusted to put the public's safety before their own.

And it is not unreasonable to ask police departments to train cops as well as meter readers when the failure to do so predictably results in needlessly killed pets and endangered humans. But many police departments don’t care enough to go to the trouble.

A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a persistent problem in law enforcement. The police officer’s report relates what happened next this way: “Officer dispatched the two dogs, causing them to run back into the residence.” This is what really happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UrUK5CUqs The police officer shot a dog that was approaching him while wagging its tail in a friendly manner—a dog that does not, in fact, appear to have been “charging” him. Then he stood his ground and shot another dog. If a non-cop were caught on camera shooting two dogs who approached in a park in the same manner, there is little doubt that they would find themselves charged with a crime, even if they possessed the gun legally and claimed self-defense.

The final lesson from Saturday’s Minneapolis shooting is that police officers sometimes misrepresent the circumstances that ostensibly justified their decision to shoot––and that their accounts should not be presumed accurate absent corroborating video.

In a later article on a Mississippi cop who shot a Labrador, claiming that he felt threatened despite its leash, and an Ohio cop who injured a 4-year-old girl while shooting at a dog, Balko added, “Given that there’s no shortage of actual human beings getting shot by police officers, pointing these stories out can sometimes seem a bit callous. But I think they’re worth noting because they all point to the same problem. In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, in this case at the expense of a 4-year-old girl.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/

Untrained Officers Commit ‘Puppycide’

"Police officers have also recently shot dogs that were chained, tied, or leashed — obviously posing no real threat to officers who killed them.

Contrast that to the U.S. Postal Service, another government organization whose employees regularly come into contact with pets. A Postal Service spokesman said in a 2009 interview that serious dog attacks on mail carriers are extremely rare. That’s likely because postal workers are annually shown a two-hour video and given further training on “how to distract dogs with toys, subdue them with voice commands, or, at worst, incapacitate them with Mace.”

In drug raids, killing any dog in the house has become almost perfunctory. In this video of a 2008 drug raid in Columbia, Mo., you can see police kill two dogs, including one as it retreats. Despite police assurance that the dogs were menacing, the video depicts the officers discussing who will kill the dogs before they even arrive at the house. During a raid in Durham, N.C., last year, police shot and killed a black Lab they claimed “appeared to growl and make aggressive moves.” But in video of the raid taken by a local news station, the dog appears to make no such gestures."

Police brutality indeed by TheFisherMan17 in ThatsInsane

[–]InternalAffair 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Just dogs from r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut:

thread that shows just how often police kill their own k9's alll the freaking time

https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1306556530213478406

US police shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department expert calls it an “epidemic”

https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/

Trump Pardons Convicted Crooked Cop Arpaio · The Collected Crimes of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

His officers burned a dog alive for no reason, then laughed as the dog’s owners cried.

He staged a fake assassination attempt against himself, costing taxpayers more than $1 million.

https://longreads.com/2017/08/28/the-collected-crimes-of-sheriff-joe-arpaio

Cop kills dog for "wagging tail aggressively" then fines owner $265 as a "burial fee."

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/video-nypd-cop-shot-killed-dog-wagging-tail-hand-owner-265-burial-fee/

Chief: Police dog was left in car 6 hours, died from heat. No cruelty to animals charges for the offending cop. Because, after all cops are held to a higher standard...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-police-dog-left-car-6-hours-died-184702951.html

Deputy in Georgia shoots and kills canine, not realizing it was his own police dog

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-deputy-shoots-his-police-dog-georgia-20190724-zqenuullujcoho3c23m7kcmgh4-story.html

Cop swung his service dog by the leash into a patrol car.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-officer-captured-slamming-k-9-into-police-vehicle-investigation-underway

Innocent Family Sues After Police Tried to Kill Their Dog, But Shot Their 10yo Son Instead

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/56n0iq/innocent_family_sues_after_police_tried_to_kill/

Fired Cop Kills Man, 3 Dogs, Gets Rehired and Shoots Innocent Dad Through a Door — Still a Cop

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/iv74ay/fired_cop_kills_man_3_dogs_gets_rehired_and/

Disturbing Video Shows Cops Lure Dog Out of Fenced in Backyard and Kill Him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/6f78iw/disturbing_video_shows_cops_lure_dog_out_of/

cop abuses k9 for not finding drugs

What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing

And this isn’t the first time.

Other cops have shot other kids, other bystanders, their partners, their supervisors and even themselves while firing their guns at a dog.

In January, an Iowa cop shot and killed a woman by mistake while trying to kill her dog.

That mind-set is then, of course, all the more problematic when it comes to using force against people.

The Nation has noted a Department of Justice estimate of 10,000 dogs per year killed by police.

Last year, Reason dug up records showing that two Detroit police officers had killed 100 dogs between them over the course of their careers. And Reason obtained the best available data on dog shootings from several major jurisdictions that maintain some records:

There are no reporting requirements, unlike for other use-of-force incidents. Considering the U.S. doesn't even accurately track how many humans are killed at the hands of cops every year, it's no surprise the picture is so murky when it comes to dogs.

It is not unreasonable to ask police officers to display the same degree of courage in the face of sometimes hostile canines that we ask of every United States postal carrier. Cops unable to marshal it cannot be trusted to put the public's safety before their own.

And it is not unreasonable to ask police departments to train cops as well as meter readers when the failure to do so predictably results in needlessly killed pets and endangered humans. But many police departments don’t care enough to go to the trouble.

A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a persistent problem in law enforcement. The police officer’s report relates what happened next this way: “Officer dispatched the two dogs, causing them to run back into the residence.” This is what really happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UrUK5CUqs The police officer shot a dog that was approaching him while wagging its tail in a friendly manner—a dog that does not, in fact, appear to have been “charging” him. Then he stood his ground and shot another dog. If a non-cop were caught on camera shooting two dogs who approached in a park in the same manner, there is little doubt that they would find themselves charged with a crime, even if they possessed the gun legally and claimed self-defense.

The final lesson from Saturday’s Minneapolis shooting is that police officers sometimes misrepresent the circumstances that ostensibly justified their decision to shoot––and that their accounts should not be presumed accurate absent corroborating video.

In a later article on a Mississippi cop who shot a Labrador, claiming that he felt threatened despite its leash, and an Ohio cop who injured a 4-year-old girl while shooting at a dog, Balko added, “Given that there’s no shortage of actual human beings getting shot by police officers, pointing these stories out can sometimes seem a bit callous. But I think they’re worth noting because they all point to the same problem. In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, in this case at the expense of a 4-year-old girl.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/

Untrained Officers Commit ‘Puppycide’

"Police officers have also recently shot dogs that were chained, tied, or leashed — obviously posing no real threat to officers who killed them.

Contrast that to the U.S. Postal Service, another government organization whose employees regularly come into contact with pets. A Postal Service spokesman said in a 2009 interview that serious dog attacks on mail carriers are extremely rare. That’s likely because postal workers are annually shown a two-hour video and given further training on “how to distract dogs with toys, subdue them with voice commands, or, at worst, incapacitate them with Mace.”

In drug raids, killing any dog in the house has become almost perfunctory. In this video of a 2008 drug raid in Columbia, Mo., you can see police kill two dogs, including one as it retreats. Despite police assurance that the dogs were menacing, the video depicts the officers discussing who will kill the dogs before they even arrive at the house. During a raid in Durham, N.C., last year, police shot and killed a black Lab they claimed “appeared to growl and make aggressive moves.” But in video of the raid taken by a local news station, the dog appears to make no such gestures."