The Spokane police department’s body camera experiment has begun with a thud. A cop who shot a domestic violence suspect after a car chase was wearing a body camera, but there’s no video of the shooting because the camera was turned off. Cameras, like medications prescribed by your doc[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
November 11th, 2014 - 12:03 pm § in Misc.
Memo To Cops: Your Body Cameras Don’t Work If They’re Turned Off
October 21st, 2014 - 2:49 pm § in America
Police Violence Isn’t Inevitable
Population of England and Wales: 56 million (2011 census) Police Shootings in England and Wales: 1 in 2012 and 3 in 2013 with 0 fatalities http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/18/1336354/-Yes-it-s-true-Police-only-shot-four-people-and-nobody-died-in-all-of-England-the-past-two-years?detail=emai[...]
October 18th, 2014 - 12:36 pm § in Misc.
Another Black Youth, Coerced Confession, And Wrongful Imprisonment
David McCallum, 45, was exonerated last week after spending 28 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. McCallum was just 16 when police coerced him and a friend (who died in prison in 2001) into signing cop-written confessions filled with falsehoods and inconsistencies. The charges [...]
October 17th, 2014 - 2:22 pm § in Misc.
Should Darrell Wilson Be A Cop?
This is what Shaun King, a civil rights activist, claims happened when Ferguson police officer encountered Michael Brown on April 9, 2014, quoted from Daily Kos under Fair Use and edited (by me) for brevity and clarity, based on “six eyewitness accounts, confirmed audio of the fired gunshots, [...]
October 9th, 2014 - 11:50 am § in Misc.
Boston Police Disproportionately Stop, Question, And Frisk Blacks
An ACLU study has concluded that “Boston’s black residents are more likely to be stopped, questioned or searched by police,” CBS reported today. The study found that 63% of civilian-police encounters between 2007 and 2010 involved blacks, even though blacks make up only 24% of th[...]
October 9th, 2014 - 11:06 am § in Misc.
Black Man Gets Mugged By NYC Cops
It would almost be funny, akin to a man-bites-dog story, if it weren’t so pathetic and distasteful. Lamard Jones, who is black, was celebrating his 35th birthday at Coney Island with friends last month when white cops allegedly stopped the group and frisked one of his friends under New York Ci[...]
October 8th, 2014 - 8:16 pm § in Misc.
Police Assume Black Kid Living In White Foster Home Is A Burglar
If you’re a black kid, and you’re inside a house where white people live, you must be a burglar — right? That’s what a neighbor assumed when DeShawn Currie, 18, a black foster child being parented by a white couple, came home from school and walked in the door. So they called[...]
October 8th, 2014 - 12:46 pm § in Misc.
When Cartoonists Mock Brutal Cops
I’m not imagining America’s epidemic of police violence against civilians. How do I know? When people draw cartoons about something, you know it’s real. Perhaps you’re familiar with the “crime wave” phenomenon, i.e., many of America’s historic [...]
October 7th, 2014 - 5:24 pm § in Misc.
White Indiana Cops Violently Attack Black Family During Traffic Stop
“Lisa Mahone and her boyfriend Jamal Jones were driving on Sept. 24 in Hammond, Indiana, with Mahone’s two kids in the back seat when Mahone was stopped and ticketed for driving without wearing a seat belt. The stop was caught on cellphone camera by Mahone’s 14-year-old son,”[...]
October 7th, 2014 - 1:53 pm § in Misc.
Proselytizing with a badge and gun
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against an Indiana state trooper who pulled over a 60-year-old woman for a traffic violation and, after writing a warning ticket, asked her if she’s a Christian, what church she attends, and handed her a religious pamphlet. David Bursten, a spokesman for the Indian[...]