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  • Expression
    9 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +27 +1

    Life Without Police

    Among young black men in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the New York Police Department's two-weeks-and-counting "slowdown" in street-level policing isn't just the news – it's personal. Whereas white New Yorkers in Manhattan may not have enough interaction with the police to discern first-hand that drug arrests, low-level criminal summonses, and citations are on the decline, young black men in Bed-Stuy, a historically black Brooklyn neighborhood of high-rise public housing, low-rent row houses...

  • Analysis
    9 years ago
    by aj0690
    +16 +1

    New York Police Officers Are Quick to Resort to Chokeholds, Inspector General Finds

    The first investigation by New York City’s police inspector general includes the finding that in several cases where officers were found to have used a chokehold, the banned maneuver was the officer’s initial physical response to verbal resistance. The 45-page report, released on Monday, follows the death in July of Eric Garner on Staten Island after an arresting officer placed him in a chokehold, a tactic that was banned by the Police Department two decades ago.

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by aj0690
    +17 +1

    Grandfather visiting Alabama from India stopped by police while taking walk, left partly paralyzed

    The quite neighborhood with Chirag and his family have lived for nearly two months now. Sureshbhai Patel was visiting from India, staying with his son, Chirag, his wife and child in their Madison home. After being in the States for almost a week, Sureshbhai was walking through the neighborhood, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, when Madison Police Officers received a call about a "suspicious person" in the neighborhood. They found Sureshbhai, who couldn't speak English, injuring him...

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by wildcard
    +10 +1

    D.C. Police Cleared in Fatal Shooting of Teen

    A jury cleared Metropolitan Police Department officers in the shooting death of a D.C. teen four years ago. Rafael Briscoe, 18, was shot and killed in April 2011 in the 2400 block of Elvans Road SE after police say he brandished a weapon. MPD surveillance video shows the former track star running from an unmarked D.C. police car filled with officers. Lawyers for the police department said the teen was seen carrying a gun, while Briscoe's family lawyer, Billy Ponds...

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by distant
    +20 +1

    Deputy Fired After Tasing 65-Year-Old Man in Wheelchair in Pickens Co.

    A Pickens County Sheriff's Office deputy has been fired after an internal investigation found his tasing of an unarmed man in a wheelchair was “inappropriate” and “unjustified.” “Gracious alive, why did they tase me? I wasn't a danger to them,” said 65-year-old Parker Mansell, Jr., who's been using a wheelchair to get around since a stroke left him paralyzed on the right side of his body 16 years ago.

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by weekendhobo
    +5 +1

    Amateur Videographer Captures Deadly Officer-Involved Shooting On Camera

    That much isn’t under dispute. What led to the shooting is disputed by law enforcement and witnesses. An amateur videographer on Sunday captured a confrontation between a man and police on L.A’s Skid Row moments before he was shot to death while held down on the ground. The incident occurred around noon.

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by drank
    +22 +1

    You’re 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

    An average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the US went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics every year for almost a decade, according to a report released on Tuesday. The first-ever attempt by US record-keepers to estimate the number of uncounted “law enforcement homicides” exposed previous official tallies as capturing less than half of the real picture.

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by Cobbydaler
    +18 +1

    UK sells tear gas and rubber bullets to regimes on Foreign Office blacklist

    The Coalition has approved the sale of £16m of crowd-control and anti-riot equipment, including tear gas and rubber bullets, to countries whose regimes are on its own human-rights blacklist.

  • Video/Audio
    9 years ago
    by KondoR
    +15 +1

    Warning: Graphic footage shows mentally ill man shot on his doorstep by Dallas cops

    Body-cam footage showing the moment a mentally ill man was shot dead by two Dallas police officers has been released on behalf of the deceased man’s family. According to the Dallas Morning News on Monday, the family of Jason Harrison agreed to release the video with the aim of raising questions around how deadly force is used by police officers, particularly when dealing with people with mental illness.

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by KondoR
    +14 +1

    Police officer charged with holding gun to man's head

    A police officer in Maryland has been indicted on assault charges after prosecutors say he held a gun to the head of a man who hadn't committed a crime. Police and prosecutors announced Friday that a grand jury indicted Prince George's County Officer Jenchesky Santiago on charges including first-degree assault and misconduct in office. He had been suspended with pay since police began investigating the incident last June, and now is suspended without pay.

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by KondoR
    +11 +1

    Police All Over the U.S. Are Issuing Fewer Traffic Tickets

    Drivers appear to be catching a break from cops, who are writing fewer tickets of late. But don't think for a second the decrease is because police have become softies all of a sudden.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by everlost
    +19 +1

    Think Walter Scott’s death is ‘another Ferguson’? Cops don’t.

    This one is different. Walter Scott was killed — shot multiple times in the back — by North Charleston, S.C., police officer Michael Slager last weekend. Scott, already running away, was no threat to the officer when the first shot was fired. He was even less of a threat when Slager paused and fired the eighth and final round.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by distant
    +13 +1

    Anger follows acquittal in rare trial of Chicago cop

    In a stunning, abrupt end to the first trial in years of a Chicago police officer for a fatal off-duty shooting, a Cook County judge acquitted the veteran cop Monday on a legal fine point, drawing outrage from the black victim's family and leaders in the African-American community.

  • Analysis
    8 years ago
    by 8mm
    +18 +1

    There aren't more police shootings, just more coverage

    It feels like every week, a name is added to the list: another man, often black and unarmed, has died at the hands of police. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Jason Harrison, Walter Scott, Eric Harris, Freddie Gray, to name a few. The headlines make it feel as if the country is experiencing an unprecedented wave of police violence, but experts say that isn't the case. We're just seeing more mainstream media coverage, and for a variety of reasons.

  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by aj0690
    +17 +1

    After 20 Years On The Job, NYC Police Officer Tells His Intense Stories

    "Your heart is pounding; your adrenaline is shooting out of your ears," Steve Osborne says. "And you got one second to get it right." He retired from the force in 2003. His memoir is called The Job. In his 20 years as a New York City police officer, Steve Osborne made thousands of arrests. He says that when he was in uniform, it wasn't unusual to handle 20 jobs a night. And in plainclothes, in the anti-crime unit, his teams would make several felony collars a week...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by ppp
    +19 +1

    Videos of individual police encounters are part of a bigger picture

    A spate of videos has brought what looks like police brutality into our living rooms. Logic says these incidents are aberrations; that's what makes them news. But I'm having trouble clearing my mind of those ugly scenes — and I know I'm not alone. Are these just individual cops gone rogue? Or are they the tip of a giant iceberg of on-duty misconduct?

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by wetwilly87
    +30 +1

    The man who filmed the Freddie Gray video has been arrested at gunpoint

    Kevin Moore, the man who filmed Freddie Gray's brutal arrest, has now himself been arrested following "harassment and intimidation" from Baltimore police. Moore was arrested at gunpoint last night along with two other members of Cop Watch, a group dedicated to filming and documenting police work. His video of Gray's arrest was shot shortly before the man suffered spinal injuries while in police custody that led to his death.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by distant
    +33 +1

    9 cops fired in connection with death of 21-year-old

    Nine Georgia deputies have been fired in connection with the death of a 21-year-old student in Savannah, Georgia, authorities announced Friday. The firings are related to the case of Matthew Ajibade, who died in an isolation cell on New Year's Day, said Gena Bilbo, the Chatham County Sheriff's spokeswoman. Two of the nine deputies who were fired had been on paid leave.

  • Analysis
    8 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +11 +1

    The increasing isolation of America’s police

    Politico has put up a fascinating profile of Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, which is the country’s largest police union. More than anything, the profile highlights how law enforcement is politically positioned in a way that basically immunizes from criticism and oversight. Republicans have long been loathe to criticize police and police unions because they see themselves as the law-and-order party, despite the fact that deference to police ought to...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by wetwilly87
    +12 +1

    Homan Square detainee: I was sexually abused by police at Chicago 'black site'

    For psychological reasons, Angel Perez does not call what happened to him rape. But he vividly recalls being taken to Homan Square, a warehouse used by the Chicago police for incommunicado detentions, where police inserted something into his rectum. “I felt the coldness and the metallic aspect of it,” Perez, 33, told the Guardian.