Cops Thread

The cops, at least around me, are mostly idiots and douches.
I have a friend who's a cop, and he's not very bright and an asshole. But it's not hard to become a cop. At all. The job isn't great, but it pays well for the amount of time and effort it takes. Seriously, my friend one day was just like "oh i guess i'll be a cop" and within like 2 years he was. Never put strong effort in to education, has done and still does more drugs than me - cop.

It should be harder to become a cop. And a teacher. Both of those programs have to become more selective. They're too important to be so easy.
 
Man Fined $280 For Throwing Football At Chargers Tailgate

One would think that in the parking lot before an NFL game kicks off, a tailgater could mimic Philip Rivers and throw a football around with some friends. Not at Qualcomm Stadium, though.

Jesse Unger was tossin' around the ol' pigskin at Qualcomm before the Colts-Chargers game last month when officers approached him and told him to stop. San Diego has a municipal law stating that one may not "intentionally throw, discharge, launch or spill any solid object (including footballs, baseballs, frisbees and other such devices) or liquid substance or otherwise cause subject or substance to be thrown, discharged, launched, spilled, or to become airborne." Unger kept throwing the football—because he says he thought the police were joking—and received a $280 ticket for "playing ball." Instead of paying, he took it to court.

Last Tuesday, Unger stood in front of a judge, argued that the rules weren't publicly posted in the parking lot, and pled guilty to suspend the fine. His plea: "I plead guilty to throwing the football, Your Honor." The system works!
 
I'm not sure what it says about me as a person, but I detest state patrol/cop cars parked on the ****ing side of the road on the interstate at night with no lights on or anything and kind of wish a tornado would sweep them away.
 
But back to the bad ones:

According to the National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations, the United States outdoes India when it comes to custodial rapes of women by law enforcement personnel. It can be difficult for the women to prove the rapes, because often the officers’ threats are enough to overcome the women’s refusal to engage in sex acts. In other words, it can sometimes look consensual, even if there is evidence of sex. (This is also the claim of the Sacramento officer already mentioned above, accused of raping the elderly stroke victim.)

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Quantum of proof? It’s nothing. Just words. And with each new court case that guts our Constitution, “quantum of proof” has become shorthand for what is only a series of formulaic excuses the police pull out of their asses, usually only after they get caught shoving things up ours.
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I quoted two of the more demonstrative paragraphs, but the entire short article is both worth the read and very well sourced.
 
Hate there are threads like this, but some bad eggs spoil the bunch. They do what most here won't. Shame they get hammered for their mistakes even worse than others.
 
Tapate50 said:
Hate there are threads like this, but some bad eggs spoil the bunch.
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That's a key point the article's author makes: we need to be more societally vigilant, and ensure these bad eggs are actually punished, because they are the minority but their actions (and the very usual lack of any sort of castigation, beyond the most impotent) is spoiling the bunch behind a thick blue line of institutional intransigence or outright protection.
 
Link: Texas Cop Charged in Rape of Woman He Pulled Over

A San Antonio police officer has been charged with the rape of a 19-year-old woman he pulled over at 2am Friday. Officer Jackie Len Neal, 40, told the woman she was driving a stolen vehicle, according to an affidavit. Neal asked the woman to step out for a pat-down; she said she'd prefer a female officer to do it, but he ignored her, the affidavit says, via the San Antonio Express-News. Neal groped the woman, handcuffed her, and took her to the back of his car, where he raped her, per the affidavit.

Police car surveillance gear normally would have caught the attack, but Neal's wasn't working—something he would have known, police chief William McManus says. "I am outraged. This is a punch in the eye to the police department," he notes. Neal has been arrested for alleged felony sexual assault; he's been released on a $20,000 bond and will keep receiving pay ahead of any indictment. He was accused in a similar incident within the past few years, though the alleged victim in that complaint refused to cooperate with police and no action resulted. Neal was recently suspended for three days for dating an 18-year-old member of a department youth program.
 
jpx7 said:
According to the National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations, the United States outdoes India when it comes to custodial rapes of women by law enforcement personnel. [/URL]:

I quoted two of the more demonstrative paragraphs, but the entire short article is both worth the read and very well sourced.
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Mm... not that well sourced. From the article they used to support that claim:

The National Human Rights Commission India has reported 39 cases between the years 2005-2010. In fact, the actual number of cases is much higher than the reported statistics.

In India, rape goes grossly underreported. The US plainly has a very real problem here, but the author of this article is trying to make things appear worse by cherry-picking data from India.
 
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