Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

I would like to open the eyes of some of the police apologetics out there. I've said before that police issues are systemic. They put themselves and their jobs way above the citizens that they swore to protect. The constantly purposely leave out things from reports, or just straight up lie. The cover for each other when they abuse citizens, lie, cheat, and steal.

I could go for days posting about incidents where single officers violate citizens. Literally. It happens all day, every day. Some are so egregious that they are definitely thread worthy. But on this thread, I'd like to point out the culture of American policing. The US vs THEM mentality, to protect your own over anything else.

Those officers that are present but do not report known abuses should be punished as well. The Blue Code of Silence is real, and is a detriment to the public. I think policing is broken and it will never be fixed.

I do not trust the police. At All. They will keep know abuses quiet until someone gets the same exact footage that they have, releases it to the public, and then all of sudden, it's "We are going to launch an investigation." What?! You have the same footage. It's from your officers bodycams and your officers dashcams. If it had not been released to the public by someone else, it all gets swept under the rug.

There are a few cases that I've been following lately that I would like to highlight that shows the kind of corruption that I'm talking about. I've been tempted to post them as I learned of them, but have held back. After seeing an update to one of the cases just now, I had to make this thread, and I'll just add them to it.

 

East Cleveland Police Dept

In March, 11 current and former officer were indicted for beating Americans, aggravated robbery, bribery, and theft. That brings the total to SIXTEEN indicted in the last seven months. This department usually has 40 officers, but there have been so many that have been indicted, they can't even police their own jurisdiction. They have to have help from outside agencies.

In the past seven months, O’Malley’s office has worked to indict 16 East Cleveland police officers, including those charged Wednesday. In addition to the latest charges, which include felonious assault, interfering with civil rights and dereliction of duty, other officers have been charged with crimes including aggravated robbery, bribery and theft.

O’Malley believes that in East Cleveland, a city of 13,600, there are only about two dozen police officers remaining on active duty and able to patrol the streets. As a result, city officials are seeking help from Cuyahoga County sheriff’s deputies and state troopers.

In addition to assault and civil rights violations, several officers were charged Wednesday with tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, theft in office, and telecommunications fraud. They will be arraigned at a later date and are expected to self-surrender, O’Malley said.

The following officers were indicted on Wednesday:

· Patrol Officer Nicholas Foti

· Detective Ian McInnes

· Sgt. John Hartman

· Patrol Officer Tristan Homan

· Patrol Officer Laurice Mans

· Patrol Officer Tre Dehart Robinson

· Patrol Officer Brian Parks

· Patrol Officer Tyler Mundson

· Patrol Officer Brian Stoll

· Investigator Kyle Wood

· Patrol Officer Daniel Toomer

LINK: 11 East Cleveland police officers indicted on civil rights violations after video captures shocking brutality



This is the tamest version I could post on Gator Country. It touches on just some of the cases. Let me know what you think about the cell phone part. Just petty and mean.



Cleveland.com release an unfiltered, raw video version. You can find it on YouTube, or open up this box. nsfw language. Hopefully mods will allow note only because its valuable information for the public, but because you can't play it in the forum and you must leave the site to view it.

The thing I wanted to point out here is how brutal cops can be. How many can join in. In this case, it looks like at least 40% of the department can.

 

Pueblo Police Department

Police affiliate's son beats man to the point of hospitalization. Every cop on scene covers up a felonious assault. The son is the 2nd ranked amateur flyweight MMA fighter in the state of Colorado. His dad is a volunteer medic who works with all the officers on scene.

The guy is subdued on the ground and not resisting. The dad (who isn't a cop) held him down and the MMA fighter son then:

Kicks the man in the back of the head, then punches him 16 more times, kicks him again, throws 7 more punches and another kick. All while being held down by the dad.

Every cop on scene can figure out what happened. Do they seek justice? Nope. Lets give out fistbumps instead. Yep, fistbumped the son who hospitalized a guy. Let's ignore obvious facts. Let's let our buddy and his son off the hook. Let's lose bodycam footage. Let's not ask the store for the survelience footage. Hell, let's not even mention there was a fight at all. I guess you can do that when the dad said he fell and bumped his head, and all the officers saw the injuries and were like "Yep, that makes sense."

Read this police report and then watch the video.



(Fun Fact: The guy that runs this channel was a combat medic. Not sure why this one is Watch on YouTube. There is no fowl language and any blood is blurred out)



I chose this one because it relates to what I said in the OP. They put themselves over everyone. They covered this up and purposely not to investigate because it he was one of them, despite a man leaving for the hospital with serious injuries.

 

"Back the Blue
Until it Happens to You"

It's interesting seeing people, both online and people I've known, do 180's going from unwavering support of anything LEO to "You know, there is a problem here."

2 of the guys channels I watch on YT are former officers. It's refreshing to see someone that came from the culture calling out the culture.

 

Right on time. If your that big of a puss that you can't do your job without tazing handcuffed people and stomping on the heads of complaint people, find another job.

 

Watch the unedited version of the East Cleveland Police and tell me what that has to do with school children.

And hey, if it's too tough of a job where you can perform it without beating people, find another line of work.

My job is hard sometimes. I don't get to go kick the shit out of people for it.