Showing posts with label Policing. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Police Commissioner: Bad Old Days of Crime May Be Back

June 06, 2015 Attorney General Eric Holder , Crime 0 Comments
By Howard Safir, Jun. 5, 2015, Time

Howard Safir is the former commissioner of the New York City Police Department (1996-2000) and Chairman and CEO of Vigilant Resources International (VRI).
The current system of reforming police is broken—here's how to fix it

Headlines lately have been filled with news of the recent rise in violence: In Baltimore last month, there were 43 homicides and dozens of shootings. Homicides in New York City and Chicago are up about 15% and 18%, respectively, compared to last year. After 20 years of successful policing that had reduced crime to record lows, are we in danger of seeing a return to what we experienced in the 1990s, when there were high murder rates, and our streets seemed to be owned by criminals? Unfortunately, I believe it’s possible.

Presently, police forces in more than 30 cities are either under investigation by the Department of Justice or have signed consent decrees with the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. The allegations are that those departments have either engaged in brutality or have deprived citizens of their civil rights. In spite of the fact that use-of-force complaints, and civilian complaints of all kinds, have been down, it appears that the DOJ under former Attorney General Eric Holder was on a mission to reform policing in the United States.

As I’ve written before in TIME, this War on Police is causing a demoralization of police officers throughout our country. Our new attorney general, Loretta Lynch, has an opportunity to fix this.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Jesse Jackson Once Admitted Fear Of Black Criminals

June 03, 2015 Adam Carlson , AJC.com 0 Comments
Poll: 40% Think Police Make Unfair Judgments About Race

By Adam Carlson, Jun. 2, 2015, AJC.com

A new poll of more than 2,000 registered voters finds sizable segments of the population — across racial, political and generational lines — believe the police "routinely" make unfair judgments about people based on race/ethnicity, that race relations are as tense now as they were during the Civil Rights era, and that racism remains a major problem.

The survey, commissioned by Rare.us, polled a random group of 2,261 voters in the United States regarding current political and social issues.

It found sharp differences of opinion along racial and party lines, but not as much between younger and older Americans.

About 41 percent of all respondents said they believe police officers "routinely make unfair judgments about people based on race or ethnicity." About 55 percent said they trust the police to "do the right thing." 

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

But Cop Shootings Are DOWN!

But Cop Shootings Are DOWN!

May 09, 2015 CNN , Policing 0 Comments
CNN’s Sunny Hostin: My Father and Husband Are ‘Terrified ... Fear They May End Up’ in Jail When Stopped by Cops

May 4, 2015



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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Latest BS race card issue

October 01, 2014 Andrew Flowers , Batays Ungar-Sargon 1 Comments
Police Departments Don't Reflect The Racial Diversity Of Their Cities

By Batays Ungar-Sargon and Andrew Flowers, Oct. 1, 2014, Fivethirtyeight.com
Pittsburgh’s police force is at loggerheads with the city it serves. Since 1902, the city has required police officers to live within the city limits, but an arbitration panel recently ruled in favor of allowing officers to live within 25 air miles of downtown. City officials want the requirement to remain in place, as do the people of Pittsburgh, who voted overwhelmingly in a referendum last year to keep it.

Residency requirements are hugely unpopular among police officers in Pittsburgh and in other cities with similar rules. Many cities and states have contested the constitutionality of these strictures on the grounds that they violate freedom of travel and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Even where they are in place, they are routinely flouted. Today, only 15 of America’s largest police departments have a strict residency requirement for police officers, and a majority of cops live outside the cities they serve.1

Residency requirements for police officers have long been tied to better relations between cops and the communities they’re meant to protect. They continue to be seen by activists and politicians as a social good, part of the struggle to improve police force diversity.

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What about violence and the "hearts of our children"?

What about violence and the "hearts of our children"?

October 01, 2014 Associated Press , Awards Dinner 0 Comments
Obama: Mistrust Of Police ‘Scars The Hearts Of Our Children

By Associated Press, Sept. 28, 2014, Theepochtimes.com






















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Friday, August 29, 2014

Knives kill!!! (VIDEO)

August 29, 2014 Policing , 0 Comments
Latest "Woe Is Us" CNN Don Lemon Case--Ferguson Black Man With Knife Killed By Cop



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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Accused of "racism," cops became passive

August 23, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Cincinnati 0 Comments
Larry Elder: Could Ferguson Become The Next Cincinnati?

By Larry Elder, Mar. 16, 2014

“Crash,” a movie about the allegedly tense “race relations” in Los Angeles, took the Oscar for Best Picture.

Its fans say it reveals how Angelenos walk on racial tightropes, based on fear, stereotypes and distrust. The film unfolds over a 36-hour period, with intersecting characters and a clever script. As a movie, the ensemble cast and plot create a tense, dramatic, interesting film. As a metaphor or statement about race relations in Los Angeles, however, it flunks the smell test.

Actor Matt Dillon plays an immoral cop who pulls over a black couple and proceeds to fondle the wife right in front of the husband. Just before the couple pulled over, they laughed at the idea of getting stopped – after all, they’d done nothing. But, no, Officer Dillon shatters their naivete, showing why the “black community” refuses to trust the police.

But does this square with reality?

The U.S. Justice Department, in 1998, undertook a nationwide survey. They asked the following question: Are you satisfied with your local police? The results surprised local “civil rights leaders.” In Los Angeles, the site of the movie “Crash,” 86 percent of all respondents said yes, they were satisfied with the police in their neighborhood. Eighty-nine percent of whites agreed, but what about blacks? Despite the 1992 riots, despite the horrific videotaped beating of Rodney King in 1991, 82 percent of black Angelenos approved of their local police in their own neighborhood.

William Bratton, a white man, runs the Los Angeles Police Department. But Los Angeles’ first black police chief, Willie Williams, followed by up-from-the-ranks black chief Bernard Parks, served as Bratton’s immediate predecessors. Yes, many blacks complain about race mistreatment and being pulled over for DWB – Driving While Black – but take a look at the numbers. The LAPD logs almost 1 million encounters with the public every year, from 9-1-1 responses to warnings for traffic stops. If casual interactions are included – when the cop on the beat just stops to chat with a civilian, for instance – LAPD estimates the number of “encounters” would double or triple. In 2004, 4,907 public complaints were filed, of which – to date – 4,760 have been closed. Only 164 of the closed complaints were sustained. Even if the 138 complaints with a determination still pending are included with the 164 sustained complaints, that’s a small fraction of a percent of all the interactions police have with the public.

Only 42 percent of LAPD’s sworn employees are white. Urban blacks know they are twice as likely to be victims of violence as whites. As a result, most blacks support their local police. Indeed, many urge them to become more “proactive.”

In Cincinnati, from 1995 to 2001, the police killed 15 black men. Of the shootings, seven of the black men pointed, shot or struggled over a gun with the police, three threatened them with other instruments, one attempted to run down police with a car, and one officer was dragged 800 feet by a car and died. That leaves three police shootings arguably questionable. In all three cases, the officers involved were acquitted or cleared of wrongdoing.

In comes the then-president of the NAACP, Kweisi Mfume, who called Cincinnati “ground zero” for race relations: “Cincinnati’s a microcosm, the belly of the whale. It’s important for the nation to focus here on ground zero. If we can fix it here, we can fix it elsewhere. But if it doesn’t get fixed here, it turns into anarchy and all of us are left wondering, ‘Is justice blind?’” As a result, the Cincinnati cops simply pulled back, became less proactive, more passive. This, after all, reduces the number of encounters with citizens, decreasing the likelihood that a Kweisi Mfume may charge some cop with police brutality. So this troubled area of Cincinnati known as Over-the-Rhine saw, within months, an increase in crime.

But what about the alleged racist criminal justice system? Many studies debunk the idea of institutionalized “bias” against black criminal defendants. The U.S. Justice Department releases surveys tracking prosecution and sentencing by race – and finds that black defendants are prosecuted, convicted and sentenced at rates slightly less than, or the same as, similarly charged white defendants.

Recall Montgomery County Chief Charles Moose? He received fame for his work in helping to capture the D.C. snipers. ABC News did a Person of the Week profile on him. It turns out that Moose intended to become a criminal defense attorney, but chose to become a cop first so that he could learn from the inside how cops plant evidence to falsely convict innocent defendants. “Because, as an African-American male in America in 1975,” said Moose, “I really didn’t like the police. I was pretty sure the police made up the things that they did so that they could be mean and – to African-Americans in particular.” He decided to remain in law enforcement, however, when he discovered that cops rarely engaged in such illegal conduct.

But, then, maybe he didn’t see “Crash.”
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Monday, August 18, 2014

And Now This...

August 18, 2014 And Now This... , Para-Military Style Policing 0 Comments
Police Cameras Protect And Serve


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Saturday, August 16, 2014

The answer to Ferguson

August 16, 2014 Body Cameras Dashboard Cameras , Para-Military Style Policing 0 Comments
Calif Police Use Of Body Cameras Cuts Violence And Complaints

By Rory Carroll, Nov. 4, 2013, Theguardian.com

The occupant was said to be violent, so officer Carlos Ramirez approached the apartment warily. A dank smell wafted from inside. Ramirez bristled with body armour, radio, gun and Taser, but before knocking on the door he adjusted just one piece of equipment: a tiny camera on his collar.

A tubby, barefoot man with broken teeth and wild eyes opened the door. He appeared to be high. Ramirez questioned him about allegedly beating and evicting his stepson, a mentally disabled teenager. The man shifted from foot to foot and babbled about death threats.

The encounter, tense but polite, ended inconclusively, a routine police foray into family dysfunction – except for the fact it was all recorded. As he returned to his patrol car and next assignment, Ramirez tapped an app on his phone and uploaded the video. "Somewhere down the line something could happen and what that guy said, his demeanour, could be evidence."

Rialto, a small, working-class city that bakes in the San Bernardino foothills outside Los Angeles, appeared in the films Transformers and The Hangover. Among law enforcers, however, it is becoming better known for pioneering the use of body cameras on police officers.

Over the past year all 70 of its uniformed officers have been kitted out with the oblong devices, about the size of stubby cigars, and the results have emboldened police forces elsewhere in the US and in the UK to follow suit.

The College of Policing recently announced plans for large-scale trials of body-worn video in England and Wales, saying Rialto's experiment showed big drops in the use of force and in public complaints against officers. David Davis, a former shadow home secretary, has backed the idea. It follows "plebgate's denting of public trust.

Rialto has also become an example for US forces since a federal judge in New York praised its initiative.

"I think we've opened some eyes in the law enforcement world. We've shown the potential," said Tony Farrar, Rialto's police chief. "It's catching on."

Body-worn cameras are not new. Devon and Cornwall police launched a pilot scheme in 2006 and forces in Strathclyde, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, among others, have also experimented.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

New Jersey Reporter Suspended For Going Off On Fatherless Home

July 16, 2014 Balck Fathers , Fatherless Communities 0 Comments


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