Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Now that's what I call journalism.
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Cops: No Snarky Nor Positive Title
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Now that's what I call journalism.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Our brave boys in blue distinguish themselves once again.
I give police zero benefit of the doubt, but if the bar owner did, in fact, strike a police officer then he deserves to be arrested.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
It sounds like he "struck" one after three of them jumped him for taking pictures of their crime. So, no, you can defend yourself against assault even if it has a tin badge.
Again, no benefit of the doubt when this was very obviously caused by the police. Considering their story seems to have changed between initial public statements and the eventual police report, I sincerely hope there's video. Because if not they're going to railroad this bar owner.
WeAreNDHockey
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Wouldn't it be nice if so-called fiscal conservatives realized how expensive police misconduct actually is? Not to mention being, you know, morally repugnant. A city of 50,000 or so has a lot of more important things to do than spend tens of millions of dollars settling lawsuits with people it let its cops screw over.
WeAreNDHockey
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Yeah, they convicted a guy of attempted murder almost solely on the testimony of the victim, who 'remembered' that the defendant was the one who shot him, but only after a friend of the prosecutor hypnotized the victim. While that in and of itself is not grounds to vacate a verdict, the prosecution should have informed the defense that its only witness was remembering something only AFTER being hypnotized. That's why that verdict was eventually set aside by the 7th circuit court. In this linked article check out who dissented in the ruling...
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Nice.
Racist cop assaults innocent man for being brown.
Racist cop has heart attack because, I assume, MAGAt perma-rage hyper-tension.
Innocent man now facing "aggravated manslaughter of an officer, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life in prison, and resisting an officer with violence, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison."
Racist cop assaults innocent man for being brown.
Racist cop has heart attack because, I assume, MAGAt perma-rage hyper-tension.
Innocent man now facing "aggravated manslaughter of an officer, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life in prison, and resisting an officer with violence, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison."
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
At what point do smaller cities disband their PDs and pay the local sheriff’s office to take over the duties for the area? With repeated reports like this, it’s likely not an ethical one but a financial threshold. Will it take the local citizens to actually stand up and make the public outcry or some politician to step in first to beat that public scorn and place the motion to the city council?
RaceBoarder
Waiting for the Snow to fly...
Maybe it's different in MN, but in rural IL, it seems that the County Sherriff is a ton more shady than what you'll see at the town level.
Bronco
Onondaga United IV.6
Anytime there is talk about getting rid of the small town police department you end up with Bubba Joe and Farmer Bob forcefully defending the police and the total chaos that would ensue from not having the police department in their tiny little 5-15k pop town. And as RaceBoarder said, the county is likely even worse since they have the funds to paint a blue stripe on their cars whenever their fee fees get hurt.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Abolish all local police departments and sheriffs. Run everything from the state level.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Same with schools. And fund them all out of the general fund, at the same rate.
(The irony is it would help the derp areas the most, since it would no longer be intellectual filicide to relocate rurally.)
WeAreNDHockey
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I have been advocating for this for years. Virtually all local police (city, township, county) derive their power at a state level and theoretically serve the STATE of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, whatever. There should only Ohio Police, or Michigan police, etc.
This alone would not fix many of the worst abuses by police but at the very least training, policy, and protocol would be standardized. It would also save a ton of money on administrative costs. In Cuyahoga County alone, in addition to the 60+ municipal police departments, there are at least 3 sworn agencies serving 3 different health care providers (Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and Metro Health), there are transit police, housing police, local offices of the Ohio Highway patrol, various federal agencies, and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's department. Each of these has a chief executive officer (chief of police, sheriff, etc), all making at least $100,000 in yearly salary. In total there are 1000s of redundant employees doing clerical work, assisting needless chiefs, and basically sucking the taxpayers dry with needlessly duplicated jobs. If you count every separate police agency with a presence in Cuyahoga County, the number approaches 100. Absolutely ridiculous.
It would be nice someday if American voters took an honest, hard look at the literal billions of dollars we WASTE on law enforcement in this country. And I'm not talking about abolishing the police, or "defunding" law enforcement here. Police departments can serve a vital public need. But this country gets absolutely nothing out of at least half of every dollar we devote to law enforcement. If republicans cared, really cared, about saving taxpayers and ending needless government spending, they'd start with law enforcement.
Handyman
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Half the states can't fix their roads but you want them to be in charge of the cops? Are you nuts? The abuse will be ten times worse and the citizens will have no way to stop it. Not to mention you get tbe wrong government in place and you have a recipe for serious disaster.
State cops and County Sherrifs are some of the worst around...you guys are advocating for basically giving them carte blanche in the name of balancing a budget. No thanks...that may work in Alaska but in large Blue States that is a disaster. Check out the Sherrifs in California some time they are worse than the LAPD.
State cops and County Sherrifs are some of the worst around...you guys are advocating for basically giving them carte blanche in the name of balancing a budget. No thanks...that may work in Alaska but in large Blue States that is a disaster. Check out the Sherrifs in California some time they are worse than the LAPD.
WeAreNDHockey
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Actually, 90% of the states can't fix their roads probably.
You elect a decent governor and much of the problem goes away. Ohio has one of the best public sector collective bargaining laws in the entire country. But right now the executive branch does everything it can to render it as useless as possible. The last time Ohio had a governor that gave the first crap about working people and the positive effect unions have on the middle class, public sector workers fared much better and the law was administered properly.
Like I said in my post, eliminating local police alone will not fix the worst problems in policing. But explain to me how it is better that Cuyahoga County pays -- literally -- millions of dollars to 60+ municipal police chiefs who all do the exact same job as the one in the community immediately north, south, east, or west of them, than to either not tax the taxpayers that money or use it for better purposes.
Some police organizations even realize the problem of too many police departments. In the aftermath of the Michael Brown murder at the hands of a suburban St. Louis cop, the Police Executive Research Forum identified as one of the problems of policing in the St. Louis area that there were far too many separate police agencies. With more than 60 agencies in St. Louis and St. Louis County (the city is not part of the county but is surrounded by it) the report noted "(t)he fragmentation of policing is inefficient, undermines police operations, and makes it difficult to form effective law enforcement partnerships to combat crime locally and regionally."
75% of all police agencies have fewer than 25 officers. Half have fewer than ten. If one person can be the chief executive of more than a thousand cops in Cleveland, we certainly don't need to pay 80 others to do that job for 25 officers. or 10. Or 5. A Cambridge University criminologist, Lawrence Sherman, has studied the different challenges faced by cops in the U.K. and the U.S. He believes that due to the tiny size of so many police departments in the U.S. makes organizational quality control of police far too difficult.
You know who are the most opposed to any sort of geographical consolidation in police departments in the U.S.? The chiefs and other top executives who would be out of jobs. I think their opinions on this are useless. And by the way, while not to the same extent as law enforcement, other public safety entities like fire/rescue departments also suffer from the same over-abundance.
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