The LEO thread

[Vrede too]

Plus, we all know that cops lie when they screw up. There's no particular reason to believe the account they've given unless you're a gullible fool.

[Mr.B]

"Plus, we all know that cops lie when they screw up. There's no particular reason to believe the account they've given unless you're a gullible fool."

I've met many a person who "lies" when they "screw up" ... it's human nature, and cops aren't immune from it. Accidentally taking another's life only heightens the fear of retribution and leads to more lies ... like the cop in Charleston who shot the man in the back and tried to cover up his "mistake"(?)

Of course, Mr. Perfect, YOU have NEVER screwed up one time in your life, and that for a certainty means you've NEVER told a lie...in your whole life.

[Vrede too]

Police Break Car Window to Rescue 'Frozen' Woman, Only to Discover It's a Mannequin

[O Really]

I'm surprised the cops didn't shoot "her" when "she" didn't respond to their commands. Dummy is lucky to be "alive."

[Vrede too]

If they tase a mannequin on oxygen, how big is the fire?

How many parking tickets were on the car?

[O Really]

The real reason he had the dummy in the car is probably to use HOV lanes.

[Vrede too]

I thought of that, too.

[billy.pilgrim]

I'm surprised the cops didn't shoot "her" when "she" didn't respond to their commands. Dummy is lucky to be "alive."

She was white

[Vrede too]

BMLM

Spoiler:

Black Mannequin Lives Matter

[rstrong]

Reason.com: Woman Locked Up For 49 Days Without Bail Because of a Bureaucratic Mistake

A woman is arrested in 1993 on minor marijuana possession charges. She follows the rules and a judge declares that her debt to society is paid. In 2016 - she has a six-year-old son now - she's re-arrested over it and thrown in jail for 49 days before the prosecutor's office is willing to admit a mistake. She was held without bond, which is normally reserved for murderers and major flight risks. And of course the mistake has left her with a huge pile of debt.

Not surprisingly, this was in Chicago.

[Vrede too]

I hope she sues, 49 days should be worth a lot.

[O Really]

She will, unless they just cough up a settlement, which is unlikely. And she'll win big.

[rstrong]

"They" being the city taxpayers. Those responsible won't be on the hook for the costs, and won't learn anything you'd want them to learn.

[Vrede too]

Another one, even worse:

Couple Spends 2 Months In Jail After Cops Mistake Baking Soda For Cocaine
Police chief’s excuse: “We’re not chemists.”

Anyone can tell the difference between baking soda and cocaine, anyone.

[rstrong]

Anyone can tell the difference between baking soda and cocaine, anyone.

But $2 test kits can't. Nor can they tell the difference between just about anything and cocaine.

I first read about these a decade ago, after a young woman spent a month in jail because the detergent in her travel bag tested positive. In recent years the horror stories have been entirely common.

The Las Vegas police for example love the kits, because they generate a huge number of arrests and convictions. Meanwhile the police department's own crime lab found the field tests used by officers to be so inaccurate they actually lobbied to have their use discontinued.

Yet to this day, the kits remain in everyday use in Las Vegas. In 2015, the police department made some 5,000 arrests for drug offenses, and the local courts churned out 4,600 drug convictions, nearly three-quarters of them relying on field test results, according to an analysis of police and court data. Indeed, the department has expanded the use of the kits, adding heroin to the list of illegal drugs the tests can be used to detect.

Guilt or innocence is irrelevant when the choice is to plead guilty or rot in jail for months while being bankrupted by legal fees.

These stories are so common it's the sort of thing anyone in law enforcement who is even remotely competent would know about. But to give Fort Chaffee Police Chief Chuck Bowen the benefit of the doubt, he's probably just hyper-corrupt.

[Vrede too]

Police raided a family's home and mocked them on Snapchat — then realized it was the wrong house

"Merry Christmas", idiot cops.

Court overturns life sentence for stealing $15

[Vrede too]

Federal Court Rules Police Can Shoot a Barking or Moving Dog While Entering a Home

[O Really]

It's an awful ruling, but probably not a universally awful as it looks by the headline. The decision of the court was in regard to that particular case as to whether the cops shooting the dogs was justified. It found (wrongly IMNVHO) that it was, but there were such few details in the article it's hard to tell. The article says the dogs "ran to the basement" implying they were running away, but it's also possible they "ran to the basement" where the cops were conducting their search. The ruling might make cops more likely to shoot dogs, just as the many "justified" rulings make cops more likely to shoot people, but it's not a blanket approval of open season on Fido or Fifi.

[Vrede too]

Yeah, can't say about the particular incident. It's that "move" and "bark", the court's language, set such a low bar.

U.S. imprisonment rate falls to lowest since 1997: Justice Department



The "Incarcerations by State" map is revealing. Cons sure adore uber-harsh Big Brother and spending truckloads of our money.

[Vrede too]

Stop Jeff Sessions!

Petition by Benard Simelton, Alabama State Conference president of the NAACP

To be delivered to The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate

Members of Congress must reject the nomination of Jeff Sessions as attorney general. As a known racist with a long record of opposing civil rights and equality, it is unimaginable that he could be entrusted to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement official.