American Cops Doing What They Do Best

Alright, I will. With a drunk yes but with a mentally unstable person, never, because I'm sane hence I always take whatever steps are necessary to avoid such a confrontation or stop one from escalating.

So you should know that a drunk can be very unpredictable and difficult to control. The same can apply to somebody with mental illness. Dealing with those two types of people can present a bigger risk to a police officer than your average guy.
 
No more grenade launchers :(

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/18/politics/bayonets-police-white-house/

The Obama administration on Monday moved to prohibit federal agencies from providing local cops with certain kinds of military equipment such as grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and bayonets, in the wake of controversy over a "militarized" police response to unrest last summer in Ferguson, Missouri.

The banned list includes: tank-like armored vehicles that move on tracks, certain types of camouflage uniforms, bayonets, firearms and ammunition of .50 caliber or higher, grenade launchers, and weaponized aircraft.

Wait there is a workaround...

Local police can still bypass the federal restrictions and bans by buying the equipment from private sellers.
 
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Copy/pasted it into browser but the intent of the article is pointless. There's nothing to say the first cop wouldn't have reacted the same to the black kid, nor that the second bunch wouldn't have reacted the same to a white kid, plus a sample size of 1 each. Though the intent of the kids is also fecking stupid, carrying around an AR15 in public ffs.
 
Copy/pasted it into browser but the intent of the article is pointless. There's nothing to say the first cop wouldn't have reacted the same to the black kid, nor that the second bunch wouldn't have reacted the same to a white kid, plus a sample size of 1 each. Though the intent of the kids is also fecking stupid, carrying around an AR15 in public ffs.

They did nothing wrong. They were just exercising their right to bear arms. Merka, feck yeah!
 
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I'm no murderous mechanic but the police were completely professional the two times I got nicked. I don't think they enjoyed the strip search any more than I did tbf.
Pete will tell you I'm a lily-livered office worker with soft hands that have never done a day of man's work.
Bloody hell Jippy, are you me?!
 
Dodgy UK cop done.

OTT:COP GUILTY OF SMASHING OUT STUDENT'S TOOTH DURING DEMO

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ROCHESTER, KENT; LEYTONSTONE, EAST LONDON

A police officer who smashed a student's tooth out during the tuition fee protests and told him 'not me mate, you slipped on the metal fence' is facing jail today (tues).

PC Andrew Ott, 36, was taped threatening to 'batter' protestors on his own standard-issue dictaphone and saying he wanted 'poke that little c*** right in the eye'.

Student William Horner lost part of his front tooth as he was restrained by Ott after escaping a 'kettled' area during the demo in Parliament Square on 9 December 2010.

Ott was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm but cleared of falsifying an account of the incident with colleagues by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. - See more at: http://www.courtnewsuk.co.uk/#sthash.0jlZmjwu.dpuf
 
That cop's been sent down.
OTT:COP WEEPS AS HE'S JAILED FOR SMASHING OUT STUDENT'S TOOTH

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ROCHESTER, KENT

A police officer who smashed a student's tooth out during the tuition fee protests sobbed as he was jailed for eight months today (weds).

PC Andrew Ott, 36, was taped on his own dictaphone threatening to 'batter' protestors and saying he wanted 'poke that little c*** right in the eye'.

Student William Horner lost part of his front tooth as he was restrained by Ott after escaping a 'kettled' area during the demonstration in Parliament Square.

The officer told his victim after the attack 'not me mate, you slipped on the metal fence'. - See more at: http://www.courtnewsuk.co.uk/#sthash.HoUMpelK.dpuf
 
Sounds pretty reasonable. I wonder if I taped myself threatening to batter police then went ahead and assaulted a police officer (and then lied about it despite clearly outlining my intentions), would I get less than 8 months? Then again I'm not a police officer in a position of more responsibility so naturally you'd expect a stronger punishment for this idiot.
 
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8 months in prison for what will be a first offence is ridiculous

There's been a culture of police officers getting away with this sort of thing for decades in the UK and its seriously undermined trust in the police, and has therefore somewhat compromised their effectiveness. The social ramifications of a police officer assaulting someone on duty and lying about it are far greater than the same assault occurring off-duty in a bar fight or whatever, and so in my view the punishment should be more severe.

Anyway I reckon that in the scenario Hectic outlines above he'd get far more than 8 months, they'd throw the book at someone committing a premeditated assault on a police officer.
 
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/man-holds-would-be-carjacker-gunpoint-until-police/nmL4Z/

Black man with a gun. Ended with a handshake and a thank you.

Doesn't always end as you'd believe, if you read everything in here. Well done to all involved.

Well this is a thread specifically for police brutality, you would be silly to base your entire view of police off the responses here.

Also the guy with the gun was the victim who held the carjacker at gunpoint till the police came...Its not exactly a job well done, but the absolute expected response? Credit for not killing the victim or criminal I suppose, despite there being no reason to do so anyway.
 
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What sort of retarded car security system automatically unlocks the doors once the car is stationary? That's the real crime here.
 
137 shots at two unarmed black people. 137! They'd be better off with the grenade launcher.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/2...of-manslaughter-in-2012-deaths.html?referrer=

The part that confuses me is this. He may have very well perceived a threat from the vehicle, and if so, I understand his reasoning to fire until he believes the threat is stopped. That being said, if I thought someone had a firearm, I wouldn't climb on the hood of that car for a better shot, I'd be behind cover.
 
Cop in virginia resigns after using a taser and pepper spray on a man having a medical emergency (reported elsewhere as a stroke)



This body-cam video shows that they also inadvertently ran over his foot during the incident

 
Cop in virginia resigns after using a taser and pepper spray on a man having a medical emergency (reported elsewhere as a stroke)



This body-cam video shows that they also inadvertently ran over his foot during the incident



This kind of thing happening just shows they are totally losing control in the USA. The police have no idea when they are in a dangerous situation and when they aren't.
Obviously this isn't a total representation of the police over there, but you simply wouldn't get this happening in the UK/Europe. America is stuck in a shocking situation at the moment that they've got themselves into because of the gun laws.
 
Is it just me or do these cops drop the fbomb a lot? Get outta the car you mother fecker etc. I know it may seem like a minor point when they end up killing unarmed people but in my mind it says a lot about their approach to these interactions.
 
Is it just me or do these cops drop the fbomb a lot? Get outta the car you mother fecker etc. I know it may seem like a minor point when they end up killing unarmed people but in my mind it says a lot about their approach to these interactions.

When you police the streets you're obliged to use the language of the streets. :cool:
 
Well I´m glad the Supreme court has assured us that racism is over in America. Can you imagine Police Departments in the deep south, in addition to what we all know about the L.A. and Chicago police departments?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/15/miami-beach-police-racist-pornographic-emails

Miami Beach police shared hundreds of racist and pornographic emails
State attorney says ‘these activities are a breach of trust’ after internal investigation revealed how emails jeopardised hundreds of criminal cases


. . . An internal investigation revealed that two of the 16 officers were high-ranking within the Miami Beach police department and were the main instigators, Chief Daniel Oates told reporters. One has retired, and the other was fired on Thursday.

Oates said the investigation revealed about 230 emails demeaning to African Americans and women or pornographic in nature. Many were depictions of crude racial jokes involving President Barack Obama or black celebrities such as golfer Tiger Woods. One showed a woman with a black eye and the caption: “Domestic violence. Because sometimes, you have to tell her more than once.”

One of the racially offensive emails depicted a board game called “Black Monopoly” in which every square says “go to jail”.

Miami-Dade state attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said about 540 cases in which the officers were witnesses were being reviewed to determine if they were tainted racially. Some charges could be dropped as a result or prisoners freed from jail . . .
 
Black man is sitting in his car eating oatmeal...cops decide this is suspicious behaviour and decide they need to see his ID and where he is staying. He refuses to explain himself considering he has done nothing wrong so the cops spend 10 minutes harassing him by shining a light in his face and repeatedly knocking on his car window (for 4 minutes). Depressing to watch really.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh5s2AGdGAx8GKBZxe

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An officer has tackled an 8 months pregnant black lady to the floor over a parking ticket.

I can't repost (on my phone) but that's what I saw on the headline. Can anyone verify?

Yup