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I can't believe the lieutenant didn't object.
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Eww. So much bad judgment.
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Although to be fair, that's some good detective twerk. They got to the bottom of that case in good time.
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Kim Potter found guilty on both manslaughter counts

Defense attorneys now asking she is released on bail vs being taken into custody before sentencing.

Edit: Judge denies bail due to severity of her crime
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The Los Angeles Police Department on Monday released an edited package of surveillance camera footage and police body camera videos showing the events that led to the shooting death of a 14-year-old girl by an officer firing at a suspect last week.
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Several body camera videos released by police show a woman on the floor covered in blood as officers arrive and attempt to find the suspect, who, according to a police statement on Friday, was a short distance away.

An officer can be heard on the body camera footage firing three bullets toward the suspect, who later falls to the ground.

Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, was in a dressing room with her mother when a bullet aimed at the suspect passed through the wall, fatally striking the teenager. Valentina was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest, coroner records show.
The officer with the rifle really wanted to make sure he was up front, spotted the suspect at a distance far enough away from the visible victim as to no longer pose an immediate thread, issued no commands, and immediately fired three shots.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:46 pm CNN
The Los Angeles Police Department on Monday released an edited package of surveillance camera footage and police body camera videos showing the events that led to the shooting death of a 14-year-old girl by an officer firing at a suspect last week.
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Several body camera videos released by police show a woman on the floor covered in blood as officers arrive and attempt to find the suspect, who, according to a police statement on Friday, was a short distance away.

An officer can be heard on the body camera footage firing three bullets toward the suspect, who later falls to the ground.

Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, was in a dressing room with her mother when a bullet aimed at the suspect passed through the wall, fatally striking the teenager. Valentina was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest, coroner records show.
The officer with the rifle really wanted to make sure he was up front, spotted the suspect at a distance far enough away from the visible victim as to no longer pose an immediate thread, issued no commands, and immediately fired three shots.
Not great decision making there. Rifle guy had his hammer and everything was a nail.

Ultimately it's the fault of the guy who decided to beat women in the face with a bike lock but LAPD could have done better.

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Not sure if this one has been posted previously.

Police officer intentionally damages car with door while performing a search

I did some searching and found a relevant article.
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Not really a cops behaving badly but Im wondering if he can be found negligent or something.

A cop pulled over a driver and calls for assistance. The one who comes to assist is the cops brother who is another cop and loses control of their car in some way , runs over and kills both his brother and the driver he had pulled over.

What a weird frickin accident.

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Long piece by Radley Balko detailing just how awful trying to reform a police department is:
In the two years Humphrey has been in charge of the department, he has faced lawsuits from 12 of his own officers, including two assistant chiefs who had applied for his job, and a raft of human resources complaints. The various legal and bureaucratic complaints accuse him, among other things, of retaliation against officers who defy or contradict him, sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment, and gender discrimination — some of which relate to matters such as Humphrey using phrases like “take one for the team.”...

...Instead, a different narrative emerges: one of a loosely coordinated effort to oust Humphrey and embarrass the reformist mayor. It’s a campaign driven, in large part, by the FOP; by the mostly white, old-guard power brokers who have traditionally run the city; and by the two assistant chiefs who applied for Humphrey’s job.
“The FOP promotes a culture run and operated primarily by older white males who want to keep things as they are,” said Gilbert, the retired LRPD lieutenant. “It’s a classic good ole boy system. They use that term, openly and unapologetically. Any chief who wants change is a threat to them, especially if it’s an outsider. But a Black chief who wants to change all of that? Man, that isn’t just a threat to them. It’s an insult.”...

...Little Rock policy forbids city employees from directly supervising a spouse, parent, sibling, or child in most circumstances, but there are no policies about police officials having immediate family one or two ranks lower, or direct relatives working side by side in the same unit. “That’s completely inappropriate in a police department,” Humphrey said. “It creates all kinds of conflicts and problems.”

Black officers at the LRPD have long asserted that the children of white supervisory and commanding officers get preferential treatment, including promotions over more qualified Black officers. Josh Hastings, the officer who was hired despite having attended a KKK meeting, was himself the son of a high-ranking officer at the time and belonged to a family of LRPD legacies.

So in May 2020, Humphrey instituted an anti-nepotism policy, barring direct relatives from serving in the same chain of command. The FOP immediately filed a complaint. According to Humphrey, some members of his command staff also objected privately, especially those who’d had immediate family working below them, either at the time or over the course of their careers.
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It's almost as if people are the problem.
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Guess they just need some more training - that'll fix the problem.
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I do not recommend driving anywhere near Brookside, Alabama.
Months of research and dozens of interviews by AL.com found that Brookside’s finances are rocket-fueled by tickets and aggressive policing. In a two-year period between 2018 and 2020 Brookside revenues from fines and forfeitures soared more than 640 percent and now make up half the city’s total income.

And the police chief has called for more.

The town of 1,253 just north of Birmingham reported just 55 serious crimes to the state in the entire eight year period between 2011 and 2018 – none of them homicide or rape. But in 2018 it began building a police empire, hiring more and more officers to blanket its six miles of roads and mile-and-a-half jurisdiction on Interstate 22.

By 2020 Brookside made more misdemeanor arrests than it has residents. It went from towing 50 vehicles in 2018 to 789 in 2020 – each carrying fines. That’s a 1,478% increase, with 1.7 tows for every household in town.

The growth has come with trouble to match. Brookside officers have been accused in lawsuits of fabricating charges, using racist language and “making up laws” to stack counts on passersby. Defendants must pay thousands in fines and fees – or pay for costly appeals to state court – and poorer residents or passersby fall into patterns of debt they cannot easily escape.

“Brookside is a poster child for policing for profit,” said Carla Crowder, the director of Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, a nonprofit devoted to justice and equity. “We are not safer because of it.”

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It showed that total arrests – custodial, misdemeanor and felony – rose 1,109% from 2018 to 2020. Brookside police made 4.4 arrests in 2020 for every household.

It showed police in 2020 patrolled 114,438 miles in the 6.3-mile town and issued more than 3,000 citations – a 692% increase from 2018.
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Wow. We have some locally very well known policing for profit jurisdictions, and pretty much all of the Detroit suburbs do it but that's nuts and Livonia and Dearborn look reasonable when their books are openly subsidizing through their "it's not a quota" systems by line item for municipal fundraising in their jurisdictions.
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Utterly insane:

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The same officer later shot and killed a man before resigning. Hardly a surprise considering his completely off the rails panicking after he ran over the guy.
The former Lake Worth police officer who is being sued for striking a man with his patrol SUV in 2020 is the same officer who fatally shot a man on duty in September 2021, police officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Officer Jonathan Granado, who has since resigned from the department, was sued in Fort Worth federal court on Monday for hitting the man who was running across a field during a chase in November 2020.
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malchior wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:09 am The same officer later shot and killed a man before resigning. Hardly a surprise considering his completely off the rails panicking after he ran over the guy.
The former Lake Worth police officer who is being sued for striking a man with his patrol SUV in 2020 is the same officer who fatally shot a man on duty in September 2021, police officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Officer Jonathan Granado, who has since resigned from the department, was sued in Fort Worth federal court on Monday for hitting the man who was running across a field during a chase in November 2020.
The thing is, it should have never gotten to this point. He should have been fired and prosecuted for a crime before he ever got around to shooting someone. It’s just ridiculous that the police department didn’t take action.
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Grifman wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:46 am
malchior wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:09 am The same officer later shot and killed a man before resigning. Hardly a surprise considering his completely off the rails panicking after he ran over the guy.
The former Lake Worth police officer who is being sued for striking a man with his patrol SUV in 2020 is the same officer who fatally shot a man on duty in September 2021, police officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Officer Jonathan Granado, who has since resigned from the department, was sued in Fort Worth federal court on Monday for hitting the man who was running across a field during a chase in November 2020.
The thing is, it should have never gotten to this point. He should have been fired and prosecuted for a crime before he ever got around to shooting someone. It’s just ridiculous that the police department didn’t take action.
Yup - it's unfortunately normal. They didn't even tell anyone he was involved in the shooting until now. They are shamelessly making it sound like an attempt at transparency when in reality they probably only came clean because it was going to come out via discovery in the other lawsuit. And in the end this guy is going to trundle down to another town/city and get another police job.
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stessier wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:44 pm I do not recommend driving anywhere near Brookside, Alabama.
Months of research and dozens of interviews by AL.com found that Brookside’s finances are rocket-fueled by tickets and aggressive policing. In a two-year period between 2018 and 2020 Brookside revenues from fines and forfeitures soared more than 640 percent and now make up half the city’s total income.

And the police chief has called for more.

The town of 1,253 just north of Birmingham reported just 55 serious crimes to the state in the entire eight year period between 2011 and 2018 – none of them homicide or rape. But in 2018 it began building a police empire, hiring more and more officers to blanket its six miles of roads and mile-and-a-half jurisdiction on Interstate 22.

By 2020 Brookside made more misdemeanor arrests than it has residents. It went from towing 50 vehicles in 2018 to 789 in 2020 – each carrying fines. That’s a 1,478% increase, with 1.7 tows for every household in town.

The growth has come with trouble to match. Brookside officers have been accused in lawsuits of fabricating charges, using racist language and “making up laws” to stack counts on passersby. Defendants must pay thousands in fines and fees – or pay for costly appeals to state court – and poorer residents or passersby fall into patterns of debt they cannot easily escape.

“Brookside is a poster child for policing for profit,” said Carla Crowder, the director of Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, a nonprofit devoted to justice and equity. “We are not safer because of it.”

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It showed that total arrests – custodial, misdemeanor and felony – rose 1,109% from 2018 to 2020. Brookside police made 4.4 arrests in 2020 for every household.

It showed police in 2020 patrolled 114,438 miles in the 6.3-mile town and issued more than 3,000 citations – a 692% increase from 2018.
Another article about Brookside.
In 2020, she had explained her case this way to the AG’s office: “The person threatened me with an arrest if I did not take down my Facebook pictures and posts of their police officers, stop sending emails to the local politicians, as well as others, and show them (Brookside police) that I understand law enforcement practices.”

Jones is not alone in complaining about Brookside. Stories from people stopped in the ticket-happy town continue to roll down like an avalanche, since AL.com last week published the story of how the tiny town turned to aggressive ticketing to build a ballooning police force that came to provide half the town’s revenue.
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I would hope that navigation apps start to give the town a wide bearth.
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It worked so well for Waldo, Florida.
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New Rome, Ohio. Dissolved in a day.

The Ohio Department of Transportation eventually decided that New Rome's lower speed limit was inconsistent with state law guidelines. The New Rome police force was suspended by the village in 2003 when its chief resigned, shortly after the village's mayor's court was abolished by the state, and so the speed trap came to an end.

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That might be the one that got us just outside of Columbus. Pulled over on a Sunday and escorted to what felt like a makeshift courthouse that was closed except for an ATM in the front lobby where you could withdraw money to pay a fine directly to the officer or go to jail until court on Monday for speeding. This would have been very early 90s. We were coming home from Marcon at the Columbus convention hall, I think. If it wasn't them it was one of those almost non existent municipalities.
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Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!

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stessier wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:42 pm
In 2020, she had explained her case this way to the AG’s office: “The person threatened me with an arrest if I did not take down my Facebook pictures and posts of their police officers, stop sending emails to the local politicians, as well as others, and show them (Brookside police) that I understand law enforcement practices.”

Jones is not alone in complaining about Brookside. Stories from people stopped in the ticket-happy town continue to roll down like an avalanche, since AL.com last week published the story of how the tiny town turned to aggressive ticketing to build a ballooning police force that came to provide half the town’s revenue.
Things finally moving faster after those articles. The AG came out and said the case against Brookside has been opened for the past 2 years and the investigation never closed. Lt Gov calling for audit of Brookside. Justice Dept has been asked to step in and investigate. The Brookside Police Chief resigned this week. I think there should be some punishment for this, I hope there is, and not just everyone resigns.
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Guy was allegedly carrying a box cutter, but was executed by police - warning, this is a video of the shooting:



I don’t understand why he wasn’t tasered if considered a threat.
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He did "draw" on them. But I think the main point is they needed more cops there.
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Nothing de-escalates a situation like surrounding someone, pointing guns at them, and bringing in *even more* officers.
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No Knock Warrant at the wrong house.
Yolonda Irving had just settled into bed with a bottle of water and a bag of Cheetos, ready to watch a TV cop drama, when she heard her 12-year-old son yelling at the top of his lungs. “SWAT! SWAT! SWAT!” he shouted as he and a friend ran into the apartment. Police stopped and handcuffed the other teen, as Irving’s son made it to a second-floor bedroom and dove onto his bed. Irving jumped up and stepped into the dark apartment hallway on the chilly, gray day in May 2020. “When I look to the left, that is when I see the SWATs pointing their guns at me, telling me to get down,” she said.

For two hours, police swarmed the apartment, searched three of her five children — including her partially paralyzed son — and threatened their dogs, said Irving, who drives a bus for special needs and homeless children for Wake County. About a dozen officers picked apart their home looking for money and drugs, Irving said, while she and two of her children sat on the floor with their backs against the wall.

Police let her now 23-year-old son sit in his wheelchair, she said. They found nothing, she said. As they were packing up to leave, Raleigh Police Detective Omar Abdullah, who appeared to be leading the investigation, handed Irving a search warrant for the first time. It had her address on it with a picture of an apartment door with a tree in front of it. “There is no tree in front of my door,” Irving told Abdullah. “He was like, ‘We are just looking for the drugs and money.’” “I am looking around, “ she said. “I am outside. Where is the tree at?”
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Grifman wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:04 pm

I don’t understand why he wasn’t tasered if considered a threat.
Taser, bean bags, center of mass shot. Even lethal force conducted by one or two officers would have been better.


No idea on the specifics but it didn't look like anyone had control of the scene. Just a bunch of cops scrambling for good angles. The firing squad thing is a really bad look.


It was probably suicide by cop(s) but it didn't have to be.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:24 pm ChiTrib
Van Dyke was convicted of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery in the on-duty slaying of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. He was sentenced last month to 81 months in prison and, until last week, had been serving his time in isolation in an Illinois prison.
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Van Dyke is now being released after just a little more than three years, which is tied to good behavior in prison. While it's less than half of his original sentence, it was largely expected.
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3 years for murder. Seems fair to me. :P
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Octavious wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 12:52 pm 3 years for murder. Seems fair to me. :P
He was sentenced to 6 years and change for second degree murder. Illinois state law defaults to half of sentence for nearly all sentences, including class x felonies like second degree murder (super x drug felonies get 25% off, 1st degree murder requires 100%). Everyone knew this when he was sentenced. Were they expecting him to behave poorly in prison and serve his full sentence?

Hearing Kim Foxx feign shock and indignation at Van Dyke's release was somewhat enraging since every conviction she gets has similar early release rules.


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Local cop makes the news...

Omaha Police officer arrested, facing federal child porn charge
Omaha Police reported Wednesday that an officer had been arrested on a federal charge of transportation of child pornography.

OPD Officer Christopher Groth was arrested and has been placed on administrative leave pending criminal and internal investigations, according to a release from the police department.

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation with the continued assistance of the Omaha Police Department,” the OPD release states.
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I wonder if it's the same investigation that caught Denton police officer David Schoolcraft.
The court record says Schoolcraft’s phone had images of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor and a minor who wasn’t yet 12 years old.
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Head of CPD IAD. Not anything she did but doesn't look good. Certainly makes her job more difficult.

Wonder if they confiscate the car.
A Lexus registered to Yolanda Talley, chief of internal affairs, was pulled over Feb. 1 in the 500 block of North St. Louis Avenue and officers arrested Kenneth Miles, 34, on drug charges, according to an arrest report and police sources.

Talley wasn’t in the car.

Her niece was driving the Lexus, a police source said.

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Police said they recovered about 42 grams of heroin worth about $6,300. Miles was charged with possession of a controlled substance, a felony. He’s in jail, according to Cook County sheriff’s records.

Miles has a criminal record that includes multiple drug-related arrests, seven of which resulted in convictions, court records show. At the time of the Feb. 1 arrest, he was free on bond in a separate felony case for manufacturing and delivering fentanyl.


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A second police source said the officers involved in the arrest haven’t been allowed to go back on the street but haven’t been officially stripped of their police powers or put on “desk duty.”

Instead, the two are on what that source referred to as “‘soft desk duty.’”
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Re: Cops behaving badly

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Selling coke out of a squad car...
On Jan. 24, Rodriguez allegedly met with a confidential informant and sold them cocaine for $2,600 in cash, Easley said, adding that he drove to the meeting in his patrol car, while in uniform and carrying his department firearm.
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Re: Cops behaving badly

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LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:09 pm Head of CPD IAD. Not anything she did but doesn't look good. Certainly makes her job more difficult.

Wonder if they confiscate the car.
A Lexus registered to Yolanda Talley, chief of internal affairs, was pulled over Feb. 1 in the 500 block of North St. Louis Avenue and officers arrested Kenneth Miles, 34, on drug charges, according to an arrest report and police sources.

Talley wasn’t in the car.

Her niece was driving the Lexus, a police source said.

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Police said they recovered about 42 grams of heroin worth about $6,300. Miles was charged with possession of a controlled substance, a felony. He’s in jail, according to Cook County sheriff’s records.

Miles has a criminal record that includes multiple drug-related arrests, seven of which resulted in convictions, court records show. At the time of the Feb. 1 arrest, he was free on bond in a separate felony case for manufacturing and delivering fentanyl.


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A second police source said the officers involved in the arrest haven’t been allowed to go back on the street but haven’t been officially stripped of their police powers or put on “desk duty.”

Instead, the two are on what that source referred to as “‘soft desk duty.’”
Turns out that the guy arrested in the car is the informant who gave CPD bad intel leading to the botched raid that hit Anjanette Young.
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