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Cops: No Snarky Nor Positive Title

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Is the chief an elected position? No? Fire him. Keep on going until you find someone who will get things under control.
 
Not a chance that happens even if it is possible. (I believe he appoints and a committee approves so would assume firing is the same) The Mayor would likely be killing his own career.

Gates was Chief for 14 years and the guy was friggin scum.
 
Handyman said:
Not a chance that happens even if it is possible. (I believe he appoints and a committee approves so would assume firing is the same) The Mayor would likely be killing his own career.

Gates was Chief for 14 years and the guy was friggin scum.
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Oh I'm under no delusion it will happen. I'm just venting.
 
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Its the LAPD he will probably get a promotion. If the person had been Black they would be the next chief. LAPD is one of the worst, most racist PDs out there.
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Interestingly, the LAPD is one department that gets high marks for being staffed with a diverse mix of people that more or less mirrors the population of the city itself. Citizens are being policed by people that at the very least look like them. That doesn't speak to issues of gender of course, they have a long way to go there. But so does every police department in the country.

I see statistics like this though as a further indictment of police behavior. It isn't about hiring diversity and making sure the police look like the citizens they allegedly serve and protect, because if it was, a department like the LAPD wouldn't be rife with incidents like we all know and see. And it isn't about training either, because if it was, a statistically comparable number of unarmed white men would be shot by officers of color. The blue wall of silence has been around for far longer than the current round of social protests. Until we change the entire culture of policing, the expectations we have of law enforcement as a society, and eliminate the white supremacists among their ranks (which is a far greater problem than anyone seems willing to admit) nothing will change.
 
Grand Rapids MI PD is teaming up with various local clergy to train them in use of force, calling it Clergy On Patrol.

I think I just lost my breakfast and last night's dinner.
 
https://twitter.com/InsiderNews/status/1418939064024195073

A New York City pilot program that sends social workers instead of police officers to respond to mental health crisis calls is showing some early signs of success, according to data from the city.

The B-HEARD program — it stands for Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division — launched in a portion of Harlem last month and has sent teams of three unarmed, behavioral health specialists to respond to more than 100 911 calls.

Between June 6 and July 7, 911 dispatchers rerouted about 25% of all mental health-related calls to B-HEARD teams, according to the city's data. Once the teams arrived on scene, about 95% of the people in crisis accepted medical assistance. When there is a traditional response from police and EMS workers, about 82% of people in crisis accept help.

The data shows behavioral health teams also were more selective about the kind of medical help offered to patients. When responding to mental health calls, police officers and paramedics typically send 82% of patients to a hospital for treatment, according to the data. The teams of social workers only transported about half of patients to the hospital, and all of them received follow-up care. The teams also treated about 25% of patients at the scene and transported another 20% to community-based centers, according to the data.
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Prosecutors withdraw all evidence using "ShotSpotter" technology from a murder charge after a request for the judge to examine the evidence found that ShotSpotter technicians manually changed the sound classification, and then months later changed the COORDINATES for the reported shot, to fit an ongoing suspected murder charge for the Chicago PD.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8...r-to-alter-evidence-from-gunshot-detecting-ai
 
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Prosecutors withdraw all evidence using "ShotSpotter" technology from a murder charge after a request for the judge to examine the evidence found that ShotSpotter technicians manually changed the sound classification, and then months later changed the COORDINATES for the reported shot, to fit an ongoing suspected murder charge for the Chicago PD.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8x...t-detecting-ai
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I don't know if he is still currently part of the ShotSpotter organization, but Ron Teachman used to be a high level executive with that outfit. Before that, he was the Chief of the South Bend Police Department.

He pushed the city of South Bend to buy the technology around 2014, and a previous department he worked for in New England used it also. No wonder ShotSpotter hired him, and I bet his pimping for the system ended up being a financial windfall for him. The initial cost to South Bend was $250,000 for two years, and in 2016 the city paid $165,000 to do maintenance and "upgrades." It continues to spend tens of thousands every year for the system.

How nice to know that like seemingly everything else connected to policing in America this too is subject to what should be criminal manipulation and corruption.
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
I don't know if he is still currently part of the ShotSpotter organization, but Ron Teachman used to be a high level executive with that outfit. Before that, he was the Chief of the South Bend Police Department.

He pushed the city of South Bend to buy the technology around 2014, and a previous department he worked for in New England used it also. No wonder ShotSpotter hired him, and I bet his pimping for the system ended up being a financial windfall for him. The initial cost to South Bend was $250,000 for two years, and in 2016 the city paid $165,000 to do maintenance and "upgrades." It continues to spend tens of thousands every year for the system.

How nice to know that like seemingly everything else connected to policing in America this too is subject to what should be criminal manipulation and corruption.
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Is that the guy who destroyed Buttigieg's political career?
 
Kepler said:
Is that the guy who destroyed Buttigieg's political career?
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Well, I'm not sure how or if Buttigieg's political career was destroyed, he is after all a cabinet member serving a president, but if you are thinking of the Chief involved directly with the whole phone recording scandal, no. Teachman is the guy who replaced that guy. (well technically Teachman replaced Chuck Hurley, who was brought back as an interim chief after Mayor Pete fired Darryl Boykins)
 
I was told if someone drives erratically like that after talking to the cops they are using their car as a weapon and resisting...something about non-compliance and cops fearing for their life. She must have been tazed and cuffed at least right?
 
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