Point taken. And you are right. If the cops we have would just follow the law we'd be better off. Enforcing is is often a matter of giving a ticket, which is an invitation to pay a fine or else go to court.
I've got a neighbor who's a sheriff deputy and he won't call the bad cops he knows 'bad cops', but he'll admit that some of his fellow officers are pretty well fucked up and maybe shouldn't be on the street with a badge and gun. But, he says in the next breath, nobody with intelligence and compassion is applying to join law enforcement, and when they do, they often don't pass the background checks. Says they're all working huge amounts of overtime because they can't find good recruits and they're completely understaffed.
Sure sounds like a great formula--tired, overworked cops with too much coffee or other stims, hired from a pool of applicants who are not the best but managed to pass the background check.
At a Massachusetts drug lab, a chemist was sent to prison after admittingthat she faked the results in perhaps tens of thousands of drug cases,calling into question thousands of drug convictions that ended withpeople in prison.
In St. Paul, Minnesota, an independent review of the crime lab found"major errors in almost every area of the lab's work, including thefingerprint and crime scene evidence processing that has continued afterthe lab's drug testing was stopped in July. The failures include sloppydocumentation, dirty equipment, faulty techniques and ignorance ofbasic scientific procedures ...Lab employees even used Wikipedia as a 'technical reference' in atleast one drug case ... The lab lacked any clean area designated for thereview and collection of DNA evidence. The lab stored crime-scenephotos on a computer that anyone could access without a password."
In Colorado, the Office of the Attorney General documented inadequate training and alarming lapses at a lab that measured the amount of alcohol in blood.
In Detroit, police shut down their crime laboratory"after an audit uncovered serious errors in numerous cases. The auditsaid sloppy work had probably resulted in wrongful convictions, andofficials expect a wave of appeals ... auditors re-examined 200 randomlyselected shooting cases and found serious errors in 19."
In Philadelphia,"three trace-evidence technicians have flunked a routine testadministered to uphold the police crime lab’s accreditation, policebrass announced Tuesday. Each technician tests hundreds of pieces ofevidence a year for traces of blood and semen, so if investigatorsdetermine that the methods are problematic, it could throw countlesscourt cases into question ... "
In North Carolina,"agents withheld exculpatory evidence or distorted evidence in morethan 230 cases over a 16-year period. Three of those cases resulted inexecution. There was widespread lying, corruption, and pressure fromprosecutors and other law-enforcement officials on crime lab analysts toproduce results that would help secure convictions. And the pressureworked."
That is a highly incomplete sample from just the last decade.
CBS really has gone full on Lara Logan in its own little way. Hard to realize there was a time when the network wouldn't have soft-peddled and both-sidesed this deranged racist crap. But there was. I'm old. I remember it.
And Lara Logan has gone full Sinclair. One of the THREE Sinclair stations I get from the same time has a regular segment with her that they advertise being on at 5:58 PM.In other words, some 2 minute propaganda piece before the news.
Yes. If accusations of child abuse never came to a successful resolution, how safe would kids be with clergy, soccer coaches, boy scout leaders, and martial arts instructors? And how many in those professions would be predators if there were no legal repercussions?
Police departments could be decent if and only if the civil authorities were determined to keep them free of racists and sexual predators. Our current authorities mostly now seem to be encouraging the fascist bully boys* (and girls), probably because they can be so useful.
Many aren't actively encouraging this of course, but a progressive mayor in a red state with a fascist president may be overwhelmed in their attempts to fix so many broken systems.
How can you be a cop if you can't beat the shit out of minorities? It's what they do, for chrissakes! You hire them to beat the shit out of minorities, then tell them they can't, and the wrong people end up in jail. Face it, minorities and jail are a perfect fit! White guys in prison were raised as if they were minorities. What these guys really need is training how to beat the living fuck out of people of color without getting hurt themselves. That's the training they want. (I wrote this as snark, but it's a tribute to how far we've fallen that it comes off as real.)
Point taken. And you are right. If the cops we have would just follow the law we'd be better off. Enforcing is is often a matter of giving a ticket, which is an invitation to pay a fine or else go to court.
I assume she was a bigot before that happened, and we just didn't know about it until she left CBS.
Actually he didn't conduct a search
I've got a neighbor who's a sheriff deputy and he won't call the bad cops he knows 'bad cops', but he'll admit that some of his fellow officers are pretty well fucked up and maybe shouldn't be on the street with a badge and gun. But, he says in the next breath, nobody with intelligence and compassion is applying to join law enforcement, and when they do, they often don't pass the background checks. Says they're all working huge amounts of overtime because they can't find good recruits and they're completely understaffed.
Sure sounds like a great formula--tired, overworked cops with too much coffee or other stims, hired from a pool of applicants who are not the best but managed to pass the background check.
We are paid to win.
motherfuckers
if only it was just one...Among recent examples:
At a Massachusetts drug lab, a chemist was sent to prison after admittingthat she faked the results in perhaps tens of thousands of drug cases,calling into question thousands of drug convictions that ended withpeople in prison.
In St. Paul, Minnesota, an independent review of the crime lab found"major errors in almost every area of the lab's work, including thefingerprint and crime scene evidence processing that has continued afterthe lab's drug testing was stopped in July. The failures include sloppydocumentation, dirty equipment, faulty techniques and ignorance ofbasic scientific procedures ...Lab employees even used Wikipedia as a 'technical reference' in atleast one drug case ... The lab lacked any clean area designated for thereview and collection of DNA evidence. The lab stored crime-scenephotos on a computer that anyone could access without a password."
In Colorado, the Office of the Attorney General documented inadequate training and alarming lapses at a lab that measured the amount of alcohol in blood.
In Detroit, police shut down their crime laboratory"after an audit uncovered serious errors in numerous cases. The auditsaid sloppy work had probably resulted in wrongful convictions, andofficials expect a wave of appeals ... auditors re-examined 200 randomlyselected shooting cases and found serious errors in 19."
In Philadelphia,"three trace-evidence technicians have flunked a routine testadministered to uphold the police crime lab’s accreditation, policebrass announced Tuesday. Each technician tests hundreds of pieces ofevidence a year for traces of blood and semen, so if investigatorsdetermine that the methods are problematic, it could throw countlesscourt cases into question ... "
In North Carolina,"agents withheld exculpatory evidence or distorted evidence in morethan 230 cases over a 16-year period. Three of those cases resulted inexecution. There was widespread lying, corruption, and pressure fromprosecutors and other law-enforcement officials on crime lab analysts toproduce results that would help secure convictions. And the pressureworked."
That is a highly incomplete sample from just the last decade.
https://www.theatlantic.com...
Or that you enable it.
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The supposedly "good cops" lie and provide cover for the supposedly "bad cops".
Once in a great while, they don't, and their career in law enforcement is openly acknowledged by all to be over.
Remember, white supremacists have spent decades infiltrating police departments nationwide.
CBS really has gone full on Lara Logan in its own little way. Hard to realize there was a time when the network wouldn't have soft-peddled and both-sidesed this deranged racist crap. But there was. I'm old. I remember it.
They're the voices for Andy and Ollie on Bob's Burgers.
And Lara Logan has gone full Sinclair. One of the THREE Sinclair stations I get from the same time has a regular segment with her that they advertise being on at 5:58 PM.In other words, some 2 minute propaganda piece before the news.
Yep! And they're great!
Yes. If accusations of child abuse never came to a successful resolution, how safe would kids be with clergy, soccer coaches, boy scout leaders, and martial arts instructors? And how many in those professions would be predators if there were no legal repercussions?
Police departments could be decent if and only if the civil authorities were determined to keep them free of racists and sexual predators. Our current authorities mostly now seem to be encouraging the fascist bully boys* (and girls), probably because they can be so useful.
Many aren't actively encouraging this of course, but a progressive mayor in a red state with a fascist president may be overwhelmed in their attempts to fix so many broken systems.
How can you be a cop if you can't beat the shit out of minorities? It's what they do, for chrissakes! You hire them to beat the shit out of minorities, then tell them they can't, and the wrong people end up in jail. Face it, minorities and jail are a perfect fit! White guys in prison were raised as if they were minorities. What these guys really need is training how to beat the living fuck out of people of color without getting hurt themselves. That's the training they want. (I wrote this as snark, but it's a tribute to how far we've fallen that it comes off as real.)
The more you complain, the more training you have to have.