A True Conspiracy: Extreme Police Brutality and County Wide Cover Up

From the beginning, the police officers give the suspect confusing and contradictory instructions. Sadly, this appears to be pure malice on their part. They block in the victim's driver's side door, order him to exit the vehicle, then tase him for not exiting the vehicle. The police report's lies become quite clear as it's obvious that the suspect, conveniently out of camera range, is cowed, beaten. A few dozen garbage charges are filed against him, including multiple assault charges, most of them are dropped, but he still ends up spending time in prison.  Watch the video-it's worth half an hour of your time as a word to the wise-don't trust anyone because he has a badge and gun.

Standard Procedure

The police officer beats a 66 year old ailing man with dementia. Long after he's subdued or could be subdued, he's stunned in the face by another cop. This is followed with the standard procedure of the department-clearing its own officer and then charging the victim of the beating with assault.

The Untrustworthy Seattle Police Department

Particularly amusing is the officer's factual disagreement with one his victims: "Why did you kick me in the face?"
"I already told you. I kicked you in the chest."
After video footage and solid journalism exposed an untrustworthy Seattle cop making a racist and brutal false arrest, the Seattle Police Department went on to exonerate itself and ask for public trust.

Injustice

The corrupt prosecutors and incompetent lab scientists should face criminal charges if their mistake or cover-up cost someone his freedom.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/justice-dept-fbi-to-review-use-of-forensic-evidence-in-thousands-of-cases/2012/07/10/gJQAT6DlbW_story.html?utm_campaign=wpapp&socialreader_check=0&denied=1

The ACLU and Candid Camera

This might make it much more difficult to be an abusive police officer in New Jersey. I'm interested in follow up articles and segments on this app.

ACLU on Your Cell Phone

Transparency is The Revolution

I usually don't care for John Stossel. He strikes me as pretty right wing in spite of calling himself a libertarian, and his exposes  have included such gems as revealing the truth about pro-wrestling- we had no idea!. That said, he seems to be a genuine civil libertarian in this case. Cell phones and recording devices along with social media have done more to expose and fight police brutality and tyranny then any concerted political movement has for a long time. A few things worth noting about this segment:1 The F.O.P.-The cop union is opposed to recording the police
                           2 Washington D.C. police department reflexively backed up their own officer, even though he illegally brandished a firearm in public; I'm sure you take great comfort in knowing that his violent felony got him suspended for 20 days  once revealed.

Anatomy Of a Cover Up

Stressed out, abusive cops tend to get progressively worse. This tale involves a police officer with a history of questionable behavior, a cowed media, an ass covering police department, and finally enough civic responsiblity on the part of some Virginians to do something about it. Reason magazine gets credit for this article.


Thwarting a cover-up

Murder

A Chicago police officer murders a man on camera. For years, the footage wasn't released.

Thanks to Officer Friendly, Working at Wendy's Gets A Little Worse

This is a just a beatiful slice of humanity right here-obnoxious cashier, mistaken cop, all amidst the backdrop of one of American's largest and healthiest food chains-Wendy's.... (that part about healthiest food chain was sarcasm). So which was it, officer? Did you make an honest mistake that resulted in you pepper spraying a blameless kid working a shitty job, or was this your cheap way of making a few extra dollars? Of course, your actions were beyond reproach according to fellow officers, however, we live in a split reality because somehow your blameless actions cost your department several thousands of dollars in liability.

Medieval, Right-Wing Catholicism at Its Best

There are a lot of kindhearted and welcoming Catholic officials out there-be they nuns, priests, bishops, honey jarring Trappist monks, whatever. Bishop Robert Morlino ain't one of them. You have to love this guy: pre-recorded  messages on gay marriage and abortion before election time, threats to censure church members using canonical law, firing feminist employees of the church, pissing off a good deal of his parishioners, and to cap it all off, ties to American trained Latin American military officials long thought to have been behind atrocities. This man is truly a humble, meek servant of God. His supporters secretly exclaim, "Thank God, the church isn't supposed to be a democracy after all!"

I thank National Catholic Reporter for this article:

http://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/madisons-morlino-noted-othodoxy-controversy

Cops Aren't Allowed to Kick Assholes

Let me be clear. Most of the victims of police brutality aren't blameless. To be sure, you have your kids getting tasered by stupid cops, wound up and fearful police officers attacking complete innocents who happened to be in a crowd, and off duty cops who like brandishing their guns, but most police brutality happens after annoying drunks resist and insult police officers, often for long periods of time. A close second would the post-car chase beating. Suspects disregard the safety of everyone else by driving like bats out of hell, hoping to avoid the law, and once adrenaline crazed police officers catch up with them, they are understandably angry. In a similar situation, I might beat the shit out of someone too. I am not a police officer though. I don't carry a gun, have a badge, nor do I have the authority to detain people. Being a police officer means you have to make good, responsible decisions under stress.  Moreover, if I were to beat someone or respond with unnecessary force because I was stressed for a good reason, it wouldn't be my friends and coworkers who evaluated my actions. When stressed out, violent officers are protected by other officers, the police force becomes an extra-legal entity- a very professional, well intentioned gang.

Instead of Spanking, try Tazing

Oh, my beloved, have I not yet convinced you that John Q. Laws should not be equipped with electric torture devices, for casual use at that? Watch this video. I've heard of tasers saving the lives of armed, deranged people by giving police officers non-lethal alternatives, but almost every time I see them used, they are the things of dystopian science fiction.

The Tazer is Torture

Do you feel safer with officers carrying Tazers? It's clear that your average officer does not exercise enough discretion to use this  device responsibly. Anytime an officer is annoyed or a little nervous, he now tortures people.

Cops vs Cameras

Most cops just don't like cameras, and it's not hard to imagine why. The best weapon in the war against abusive cops is the camera.