Police abuse

g under p said:

dignin said:

This is an interesting read about someone with 11 years experience within the Baltimore PD .

Under some of your definitions he would be a cop/self hater.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33293421

Baltimore ex-cop Michael Wood Jr on brutality and racism

Holy crap that's some scary stuff right there but if America thinks that stuff doesn't happen in other urban cities we are clearly fooling ourselves. I've heard and read some of those stories as I lived in nearby PG County MD. Baltimore was a city I only visited to see The Preakness, Camden Yards for baseball or the Inner Harbour for their famous aquarium.

Peace

dankind said:

I don't know if this is because he's a cop or just a Masshole:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/07/27/cop-caught-dash-cam-threatening-blow-hole-through-driver-head/eyZbmPp22kuuacwx8hHe2M/story.html

dankind said:

Last-12-Exit said:

rgambs said:

dankind said:

I don't know if this is because he's a cop or just a Masshole:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/07/27/cop-caught-dash-cam-threatening-blow-hole-through-driver-head/eyZbmPp22kuuacwx8hHe2M/story.html

We had a similar case in Canton, the officer went on paid vacation for close to a year while they arbitrated... In the end they cleared him of wrongdoing because he was too traumatized to correctly perform his job. They promptly put him back in duty.

This dude is definitely a douche bag. I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing.

I'm confused. The guy who didn't want to get shot by a yelling, belligerent, wifebeater-wearing, pickup-driving, tatted-up random redneck thug is a douchebag?

And you would also threaten to blow a fucking hole through his head for a harmless traffic violation as soon as you smelled fear?

I've come to understand from some of your other posts that although you may be a degenerate, you are a compassionate human being. I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding you (and perhaps others), but you might want to clarify -- namely, who you're calling a douchebag and what actions you would mimic.

It's one thing to be pro-cop, which I am, for the most part. (I think that the few rotten apples, one of which is this off-duty blowhard, don't so much spoil the bunch in reality but rather in the public perception and that, again, for the most part, they are outliers.) It's another thing completely to be pro-violence, pro-bully and anti-humanist.

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

dankind said:

Last-12-Exit said:

rgambs said:

dankind said:

I don't know if this is because he's a cop or just a Masshole:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/07/27/cop-caught-dash-cam-threatening-blow-hole-through-driver-head/eyZbmPp22kuuacwx8hHe2M/story.html

We had a similar case in Canton, the officer went on paid vacation for close to a year while they arbitrated... In the end they cleared him of wrongdoing because he was too traumatized to correctly perform his job. They promptly put him back in duty.

This dude is definitely a douche bag. I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing.

I'm confused. The guy who didn't want to get shot by a yelling, belligerent, wifebeater-wearing, pickup-driving, tatted-up random redneck thug is a douchebag?

And you would also threaten to blow a fucking hole through his head for a harmless traffic violation as soon as you smelled fear?

I've come to understand from some of your other posts that although you may be a degenerate, you are a compassionate human being. I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding you (and perhaps others), but you might want to clarify -- namely, who you're calling a douchebag and what actions you would mimic.

It's one thing to be pro-cop, which I am, for the most part. (I think that the few rotten apples, one of which is this off-duty blowhard, don't so much spoil the bunch in reality but rather in the public perception and that, again, for the most part, they are outliers.) It's another thing completely to be pro-violence, pro-bully and anti-humanist.

That's quite the statement.

I haven't even read the story, but I'm not really okay with this approach to expressing a different opinion.

Last-12-Exit said:

rgambs said:

dankind said:

I don't know if this is because he's a cop or just a Masshole:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/07/27/cop-caught-dash-cam-threatening-blow-hole-through-driver-head/eyZbmPp22kuuacwx8hHe2M/story.html

We had a similar case in Canton, the officer went on paid vacation for close to a year while they arbitrated... In the end they cleared him of wrongdoing because he was too traumatized to correctly perform his job. They promptly put him back in duty.

This dude is definitely a douche bag. I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing.

Last-12-Exit said:

dignin said:

http://www.nj.com/sussex-county/index.ssf/2015/07/teen_off-duty_trooper_fired_at_us_but_we_were_trea.html


The state attorney general's office says its preliminary investigation has found an off-duty state trooper fired three shots from his personal gun as three teens fled his street in a car early Sunday morning — an account that's largely consistent with what one of the teens has told NJ Advance Media.

But not entirely consistent.

Both say the teens knocked on the trooper's Whispering Woods Lane door late at night after mistaking his home for a friend's. Both say the trooper came downstairs with a gun — the AG's office says it was his personal handgun. What the AG's office describes as a "verbal exchange through the door," teen Jesse Barkhorn, 18, describes as yelling and cursing by the trooper.

And both say that as the teens got in their car and fled, the trooper entered the street with the gun.

Is this relevant here since the cop was off duty, at home, with his personal weapon? Is this really police abuse?

Last-12-Exit said:

rgambs said:

Last-12-Exit said:

dignin said:

http://www.nj.com/sussex-county/index.ssf/2015/07/teen_off-duty_trooper_fired_at_us_but_we_were_trea.html


The state attorney general's office says its preliminary investigation has found an off-duty state trooper fired three shots from his personal gun as three teens fled his street in a car early Sunday morning — an account that's largely consistent with what one of the teens has told NJ Advance Media.

But not entirely consistent.

Both say the teens knocked on the trooper's Whispering Woods Lane door late at night after mistaking his home for a friend's. Both say the trooper came downstairs with a gun — the AG's office says it was his personal handgun. What the AG's office describes as a "verbal exchange through the door," teen Jesse Barkhorn, 18, describes as yelling and cursing by the trooper.

And both say that as the teens got in their car and fled, the trooper entered the street with the gun.

Is this relevant here since the cop was off duty, at home, with his personal weapon? Is this really police abuse?

It is not police abuse, but It is relevant. A large part of the broad police abuse allegations focus on the underlying character of the people who are hired as a police officers. Above average domestic abuse rates and cases like this lens credence to the popular notion that the profession draws people with aggression issues.
There is also the question of whether this will be investigated and judiciated fairly.

Police have above average domestic abuse rates? This sounds like something that could happen to any gun toting, trigger happy person ready to "defend" themselves in their home. Cop or not.