of New Jersey?
That Street Cop Training checklist, which offers handy excuses for officers keen to conduct searches for drugs or seizable cash, figures prominently in a recent report from Kevin Walsh, New Jersey's acting comptroller. The report criticizes the New Jersey company for encouraging officers to make or extend stops without reasonable suspicion and for promoting a "warrior" mentality that fosters the excessive use of force. "We found so many examples of so many instructors promoting views and tactics that were wildly inappropriate, offensive, discriminatory, harassing, and, in some cases, likely illegal," Walsh said when he released the report this week. "The fact that the training undermined nearly a decade of police reforms—and New Jersey dollars paid for it—is outrageous."
It's basically "Here's how you can use ANYTHING someone does as an excuse to screw with them."
Not to mention 'Screw with people just because you want a 'baseline' to work from."
Another speaker at the conference, Boston police officer Tommy Brooks, suggested pulling over "20 people in a row for the sole purpose of asking them a series of questions," such as where they are coming from and where they are going. That experiment, Brooks said, would establish a "general baseline" of "how people answer questions," which the officer could later use to identify "weird" responses from other drivers. Helpful or not, the research project that Brooks recommended would be blatantly unconstitutional. "Without an objectively reasonable basis for the stop," Walsh notes, "those stops, as described, would violate the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable seizures."
Crap like this has spread over time, and it's a big reason- especially in some places- nobody wants to deal with the cops: you don't/can't trust them to follow the rules. And, when they get caught and slapped down, they can claim Qualified Immunity and not pay any personal price, while you've been screwed over and had to pay a price even though you were innocent.
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The police are like fire. Used properly, they are useful and helpful. But are very destructive when allowed to run out of control.
The police are NEVER your friends. They are a dangerous tool that needs to be handled very carefully.
Everyone needs to learn how to interact with LEOs. It isn't like dealing with normal people. They may seem normal, but that is a tactic they employ to get you off your guard.
"This officer's believability and credibility were so suspect that the government could not back up a prosecution based on his behavior,"
And that’s just one.
Multiply that times the tens of thousands of cops who have the same, (or worse), “ethics” and you get where we are today.
Cops wonder why people don’t trust them.
Look in the fucking mirror.
Badgemonkeys do this for a simple reason. Because they can. Thy suffer zero personal consequences for their criminal misconduct. On the rare occasion when one of their victims prevail in court a "punishment" comes in the form of a cash settlement....paid for of course by the taxpayer. Till this reality changes the badgemonkeys have no reason to stop being criminals and every reason to continue.
As a former resident of the shithole known as New Jersey, I can attest to the fact that a huge percentage of the cops are 100% shit. I was a Volunteer Fire Fighter and had personal interactions with a great deal from my town. Usually the K9 cops were the best and the asshole on the motorcycles were the worst. But the NJ State Police took the cake as NAZIs. Even their uniforms portrayed them as Gestapo.
You want to give cops the benefit of the doubt because of how difficult their job is, but then you read stories like this and you just want to tell 'em GFY.
-lg
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