Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

Just wondering if anyone watches these videos. Hard to get a grasp what pieces of crap these officers are without seeing it with your own eyes. Circling back to my OP, there is a culture issue. Local and stage gov covers for the A-holes, the union goes to bat for them no matter how egregious their actions are. The DA's stack charges on anyone who is critical of the police, and lower or all together drop charges on officers who do the same, or worse, than what civilians do. Whistleblowers are ousted and ostracized. There is definitely a problem in our county.

 

Phoenix, AZ
News breaking this week

2 Brady List officers involved in arresting man for calling a cop a dumb-ass, brutalize him for not going along with their actions which were against their own policies, and file bogus charges like felony aggravated assault. BTW, Phoenix PD is currently under DOJ investigation for excessive force and retaliation, among other things. Go figure.

One of the officers involved who is on the Brady List once shot a man in the groin with a gas round. Officers celebrated it with a challenge coin. (Tell me there isn't a culture problem)



That officer is shown prying the victims fingers to get a finger print, even though the department policy states that violence should not be used to obtain finger prints. The felony assault charge, from the best anyone could tell, is assumed to be the victim putting his finger on the officer's hand.




The same officer got himself on the Brady List for choking a handcuffed person.

Another officer on scene had put in time sheets for hours he hadn't worked. In civilian life, I think that's called fraud.



So, cops arrest a man for hurting their feelings, brutalize him, hit him with bogus charges, and then pursue it for 10 months. The man represents himself in court. The State drops charges the day the find out the that officers prior conduct will be allowed to be brought up in court. Helloooo... *tap *tap* is this on??

Videos:

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I found it odd that he can hear his voice through the divider, but couldn't put two and two together when he hit the brakes and a human body hit the divider like a sack of potatoes...

 

In the Phoenix case, this is assumed to be the Aggravated Assault.




And from another case currently in the spotlight, a K9 officer sics his dog on an innocent, compliant man. These are "Minor Injuries" according to his report.



There's two worlds, police and then everyone else.

News Video:



30 mins of redacted audio in one of the bodycams, and two lines redacted in the report... why?

 

Perez is Hispanic, and his passenger was a Brookside resident, also Hispanic, who didn’t have her purse with her, Perez said. The officer said he would take them both to jail because she didn’t have her ID.

Which is another problem altogether, Sheriff Pettway said.

“We don’t have a law that says if you don’t have ID, you go to jail,” he said. “If you want to go out there and do something like that, you are creating a law.”

Props to the Sheriff. I see that all of the time. Police officers can't comprehend that if there isn't reasonable suspicion that a person has, is, or is about to commit a crime, you DO NOT need to identify yourself. So many cops get that wrong. I don't know if it is a lack of training, or a flex of authority to arrest someone for failure to ID. I've seen it plenty of times in this case where officers want to identify a passenger who is just sitting in the car.

The vast majority of times it is because someone reports "Suspicious activity." Officers think that just because they make contact with someone, they have to present ID. "I have to know who I'm talking to." Nah... Being suspicious is not a crime in and of itself. Being suspicious could be compounded by other things, (I think this goes back to Terry v Ohio. Resident lawyers can correct me if I'm wrong) but just because a cop makes contact with someone, doesn't automatically mean they have to present ID.

 

@gator_lawyer

I believe this is tied to the 5th Amendment. You do not have to identify yourself, via name and birthdate or gov issued ID, unless there is reasonable, articulable suspicion that a crime has been committed, is being committed, or is about to be committed.

An example would be if I were to go to Brookside, AL, stand on the sidewalk with a sign that said "Brookside Police are tyrants" and a Brookside officer came up to me and told me to give him my ID or name and birthdate, I would tell him, "Kick rocks, tyrant," I could not be arrested for Failure to ID. I mean I could, but it would not stick and I would sue.

Or, same scenario, I'm on that sidewalk with my sign. Someone called the police and said "There's a suspicious man on the sidewalk," and the cops show up. They can't say "We got a call about a suspicious person, show me your ID" and then arrest me for not providing them with who I am. "We need to know who we are talking to" doesn't fly. Neither does "I need to fill out a report on this and I need your name to go in the report." Nothing I am doing is unlawful, so they can just kick rocks.

 

That's a good one. That movie may or may not have inspired the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force, lol.

 

Understandable. I like them. But then again, I live on YouTube and would much rather watch it than cable. To me, nothing replaces watching these turds misbehave when they know they are being filmed, whether it be their own body and dash cams or bystander/victim cell phones.

That's why I started including more info in the posts, linking news articles for those who would rather read. But then again, it's like reading about how a young Mike Tyson who was a power puncher that beat grown-ass men in the boxing ring and then watching a young Mike Tyson beating grown-ass men in a boxing ring. Sure, you have some of idea from an article, but until you watch it do you realize that the articles could not accurately portray his power and tenacity.

 

@phatGator

The True Story Behind 'We Own This City'

How the GTTF terrorized the city of Baltimore
The wide array of crimes the GTTF’s officers engaged in is staggering. They targeted suspected drug dealers, carried fake weapons in case they shot an unarmed person to plant the weapon on them, and would re-sell the weapons and drugs that they stole to criminals.

In one instance, revealed in court, officers took someone’s house keys, found out where that person lived and stole $100,000 from a safe in the house. In a 2016 incident, officers stopped and arrested a couple who had been leaving a Home Depot, even though there was no evidence that the couple committed a crime. When they found out that the couple had $40,000 in a house outside the city, they went to the house and took $20,000.

Some GTTF officers admitted in court that they would drive fast toward groups of people in the street and slam on the breaks. They would see who ran out of the group, chase them, and detain them. This could happen anywhere from 10 to 20 times a night or, in some cases, 50 times a night. During their testimony, officers also admitted to putting illegal tracking devices on the cars of suspected drug dealers so they could rob their homes and sell any guns or drugs they found.

In total, the GTTF is believed to have stolen at least $300,000, 43 pounds of marijuana, 800 grams of heroin, three kilos of cocaine, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry.

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I have not watched the series, but now I'm going to have to.