The Great Police Work Thread

NoDak

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Everyone wants to be a youtube star.

Ain't nobody afraid of the POleese. I pull over POleese. That's what I do.

Seriously. STFU.
 

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Everyone wants to be a youtube star.

Ain't nobody afraid of the POleese. I pull over POleese. That's what I do.

Seriously. STFU.
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No shit.

The way it cuts off right at the end, I kinda hoped it was someone running his dumbass over while he was standing in the streets serving up some serious social justice.
 

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Prosecutors: White Chicago Cop Shot Black Teen As He Lay Dying

Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder for firing a dozen bullets into Laquan McDonald after he hit the ground—and it's all on video.

Shooting starts around 5:20



CHICAGO — Within six seconds of meeting Laquan McDonald on Oct. 20 last year, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke began shooting.

Prosecutors said the first shots spun the 17-year-old boy and sent his arm into the air. The next 13 bullets landed with dull thuds as McDonald lay dying on the ground, causing "clouds of debris" to explode from his body — tissue and pavement torn apart by lead. When the shooting stopped — 15 bullets from the cop's magazine and one from the pipe of his 9 mm service weapon — Van Dyke began to reload.

It took Van Dyke's partner telling him to stop firing, that McDonald was having trouble breathing, and McDonald's three-inch blade was folded into the knife's handle, to make Van Dyke stop shooting, according to prosecutors.



By the time McDonald reached the hospital, he was dead.
Now Van Dyke stands accused of first-degree murder, the first time a police officer in the city's history has faced such a charge for an on-duty shooting. (He's also being held without bail.)

If all this wasn't disturbing enough to hear, the world will see video of the slaying by tomorrow.


The video wasn’t supposed to be released after the city settled with McDonald’s family for $5 million, but Cook County Judge Franklin Valderrama ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought against the city by independent journalist Brandon Smith to show the video.

“To watch a 17-year-old young man die in such a violent manner is deeply disturbing,” state's attorney Anita Alvarez said, “and it will tear at the hearts of all Chicagoans.”

Activists, community organizers, black clergy members, journalists, and police have been preparing for the repercussions of the video’s release for days. On Monday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel held meetings with black clergy and community leaders, many of whom have urged calm and called for peaceful protests.



Unrest may be difficult to avoid if the video is as brutal as attorneys and members of law enforcement say it is. Van Dyke’s own lawyer has said the footage of McDonald’s death is difficult to watch.

“He’s scared to death of the possible outcomes” once the video is released, Van Dyke’s attorney, Dan Herbert, said Friday.
Van Dyke has good reason the be concerned: It sounds like an execution.



The indictment coming down within a week of the order requiring the video’s release being coincidental are “slim to none,” black activist William Calloway told The Daily Beast.

“I want to definitely say that this is a political public relations move to pacify the residents of the City of Chicago and Cook County,” he said Monday afternoon as word of a coming indictment began circulating.

Calloway, who was pleased to hear news of the pending indictment late Monday, said it may do little to blunt the anger and pain that the video is expected to produce.

“At this point in Chicago, it makes no difference whether he was going to be indicted or not,” he said. “Because it’s not only what he did, but what 300 or some other officers have done prior to that in killing mostly unarmed black men.”

Before the indictment was announced, Mayor Emanuel held meetings with community members but some, including a few in Calloway’s circle of young African Americans calling for police reform, chose not to participate.

“We don’t have nothing to say to Rahm Emanuel,” he said.

The Black Youth Project also stayed away from the meetings. That group and others have called for Van Dyke’s immediate firing, as well as the firing of Superintendent Garry McCarthy. Calloway and activists aligned with him also would like to see a suspension of pay for officers under investigation for fatal shootings—Van Dyke was put on desk duty after McDonald’s death, a typical department move for other cops who have fatally shot civilians.

Van Dyke has been the subject of 18 complaints ranging from using racial epithets to excessive force to illegally arresting people, according to personnel records obtained by the Invisible Institute, a police-accountability nonprofit.

Lorenzo Davis, a former Chicago police commander and IPRA supervisor who has turned into a police-accountability whistleblower, wasn’t surprised by the allegation that Van Dyke had used racial slurs on the job.

“That’s normal for Chicago Lawn,” he said of mostly white officers working in that majority black neighborhood where McDonald was killed. “They have an excessive number of those types of complaints there.”

But 18 complaints in 14 years in some of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods isn’t necessarily a large amount, Davis said, adding a caveat.

“In a way, that’s a lot because most of the people who you may use improper force against are not going to complain,” he said. “So if you have 18 documented complaints, odds are you have quite a bit more than that.”

One of those complaints for misconduct is the McDonald shooting, according to the personnel records obtained by the Invisible Institute. Like many of the others, the outcome of that complaint—issued by a white male witness to the killing—is unknown.

A year after McDonald’s death, and on the day prosecutors are set to determine if Van Dyke should be charged with murder, the Chicago Police Department still hasn’t concluded whether or not the officer should be disciplined.
 

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Erased Burger King Footage in Laquan McDonald Shooting Tested for ‘Tampering’
Nov 24, 15 by EURPublisher01 Leave a comment

*In May, the district manager of a Burger King restaurant in Chicago said police officers deleted footage from one of their security cameras located fewer than 100 yards from where 17-year old Laquan McDonald was shot and killed.

On Tuesday, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez addressed the missing footage, saying it has undergone forensic testing to determine whether or not it was “tampered with.”

“Forensic testing was done on the Burger King surveillance system to determine if anyone tampered with the evidence and the testing did not reveal any such evidence,” she said.

McDonald was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer on the night of October 20, 2014. Nine of the shots struck McDonald in the back, according to the Medical Examiners report. First degree murder charges were filed Tuesday against Officer Jason Van Dyke .
On the night of the shooting, McDonald was trailed by Chicago police officers through the Burger King parking lot on 40th and Pulaski after a call about a man with a knife, according to attorneys for the McDonald family. The 86-minutes of missing video runs from 9:13 p.m. to 10:39 p.m., according to the lawyers for McDonald’s family. He was shot at approximately 9:50 p.m.

Just south of the restaurant, McDonald was shot after police on the scene said he posed a “very serious threat” to the officer’s safety. But that claim is disputed by attorneys for McDonald’s family and by some eyewitnesses that night.

According to Burger King District Manager Jay Darshane, four to five police officers wearing blue and white shirts entered the restaurant after the shooting and asked to view the video and were given the password to the equipment. Three hours later they left, he said.

The next day, when an investigator from the Independent Police Review Authority [IPRA] asked to view the security footage, it was discovered that the 86 minutes of video was missing.
In a statement, a spokesman for the IPRA said: “We have no credible evidence at this time that would cause us to believe CPD purged or erased any surveillance video.” But according to Darshane, both the cameras and video recorder were all on and working properly the night of the shooting. He believes one of the detectives deleted the files.

“We had no idea they were going to sit there and delete files,” Darshane said. “I mean we were just trying to help the police officers.”

Read more at http://www.eurweb.com/2015/11/erased-burger-king-footage-in-laquan-mcdonald-shooting-tested-for-tampering/#ytuu4jxbkdLY7CjR.99
 

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Pretty much what I've always said. It doesn't take too many bad cops to make the whole profession look bad when police departments try so hard to protect their dirtiest cops.
 

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How Chicago tried to cover up a police execution
By Curtis Black | November 24, 2015

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It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being vigorously investigated,” as Kalven recalls. The source told them “that there was a video and that it was horrific,” he said.

Without that whistleblower—and without that video—it’s highly unlikely that Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke would be facing first-degree murder charges today.

“When it was first reported it was a typical police shooting story,” Kalven said, where police claim self-defense and announce an investigation, and “at that point the story disappears.” And, typically, a year or 18 months later, the Independent Police Review Authority confirms the self-defense claim, and “by then no one remembers the initial incident.”

“There are an average of 50 police shootings of civilians every year in Chicago, and no one is ever charged,” said Futterman. “Without the video, this would have been just one more of 50 such incidents, where the police blotter defines the narrative and nothing changes.”

Last December, Kalven and Futterman issued a statement revealing the existence of a dash-cam video and calling for its release. Kalven tracked down a witness to the shooting, who said he and other witnesses had been “shooed away” from the scene with no statements or contact information taken.

In February, Kalven obtained a copy of McDonald’s autopsy, which contradicted the official story that McDonald had died of a single gunshot to the chest. In fact, he’d been shot 16 times—as Van Dyke unloaded his service weapon, execution style—while McDonald lay on the ground.

The next month, the City Council approved a $5 million settlement with McDonald’s family, whose attorneys had obtained the video. They said it showed McDonald walking away from police at the time of the shooting, contradicting the police story that he was threatening or had “lunged at” cops. The settlement included a provision keeping the video confidential.

“The real issue here is, this terrible thing happened, how did our governmental institutions respond?” Kalven said. “And from everything we’ve learned, compulsively at every level, from the cops on the scene to the highest levels of government, they responded by circling the wagons and by fabricating a narrative that they knew was completely false.” To him this response is “part of a systemic problem” and preserves “the underlying conditions that allow abuse and shield abuse.”

In April, the Chicago Tribune revealed Van Dyke’s name and his history of civilian complaints—including several brutality complaints, one of which cost the city $500,000 in a civil lawsuit—none of which resulted in any disciplinary action. In May, Carol Marin reported that video from a security camera at a Burger King on the scene had apparently been deleted by police in the hours after the shooting.

“This case shows the operation of the code of silence in the Chicago Police Department,” said Futterman. “From the very start you have officers and detectives conspiring to cover up the story. The question is, why are they not being charged?”

Van Dyke’s history “also shows what happens when the police department consistently chooses not to look at patterns of abuse complaints when investigating misconduct charges,” he adds. This failure “is one of the reasons an officer like Van Dyke has an opportunity to execute a 17-year-old kid.”

Rather than acknowledging the systemic failures, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is now trying to frame the issue as the action of one bad officer, as the Tribune reports. “One individual needs to be held accountable,” he said Monday.

Kalven calls Emanuel’s “reframing” of the narrative “essentially false.” He points out that “everything we know now, the city knew from Day One. They had the officers on the scene. They knew there were witnesses. They had the autopsy, they had the video.... They maintained a false narrative about those events, and they did it for a year, when it could have been corrected almost immediately....They spent a year stonewalling any calls for transparency, any information about the case.”

He points to Cincinnati, where last summer a university officer was indicted for murder and video from his body camera was released within days following the shooting of an unarmed African-American man in a traffic stop.

“The policy in Cincinnati is that you should release within 24 hours unless there are compelling investigatory reasons to hold on longer,” said Kalven. “The policy should be that the presumption is that this is public information and it is released as quickly as can reasonably be done, except in cases where there is a genuine and very specific investigatory need to withhold it.”

That’s not the same as waiting until an investigation is concluded. Friday’s ruling that the McDonald video must be released—and the absence of any affidavit from investigators about the need to withhold it—showed that “there was absolutely no legal or investigatory impediment to releasing this” long ago.

“This was an incredible test of leadership, a major challenge to [Emanuel’s] leadership,” Kalven said. “Think how different the situation would be right now if the city had acknowledged the reality of what happened in the days or weeks after it happened. That would have built confidence.”

And instead of vague and politically self-serving calls for “healing,” it could have begun a real process of accountability of the kind necessary to start addressing the extreme alienation between police and wide segments of our communities.

Instead, with only Van Dyke indicted, it looks like he’s being sacrificed in order to protect the system that created him.
 

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Thank god Obama wasn't able to take military weapons away from the local cops in San Bernadino, CA before they could use them to stop those lunatics that killed 14 people today. Otherwise, those morons could have killed many more people, which could have been a travesty. Any idiot that thinks taking resources away from cops is just that, an idiot. Those resources most likely saved lives today. Think about it before you spew your moronic rhetoric about taking weapons away from the only thing protecting us from domestic terrorism.
 

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Thank god Obama wasn't able to take military weapons away from the local cops in San Bernadino, CA before they could use them to stop those lunatics that killed 14 people today. Otherwise, those morons could have killed many more people, which could have been a travesty. Any idiot that thinks taking resources away from cops is just that, an idiot. Those resources most likely saved lives today. Think about it before you spew your moronic rhetoric about taking weapons away from the only thing protecting us from domestic terrorism.
Really?

When has Obama ever tried to take military weapons away from cops?

I really have no idea what you are ranting about and I think you don't either.
 

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Really?

When has Obama ever tried to take military weapons away from cops?

I really have no idea what you are ranting about and I think you don't either.
You really should research shit before you open your moronic mouth.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-ban-military-weapons-sent-local-police-departments

“We’ve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there’s an occupying force,” Obama said. “We’re going to prohibit some equipment made for the battlefield that is not appropriate for those police departments.”
 

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Oh, and what I'm talking about are the military style vehicles and equipment that were used to take down the lunatics in San Bernadino. Thought I made that clear, but forgot I have to really get it down to some people's level.
 

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Oh, and what I'm talking about are the military style vehicles and equipment that were used to take down the lunatics in San Bernadino. Thought I made that clear, but forgot I have to really get it down to some people's level.
You said weapons which he never advocated taking away and he was talking about regular police forces not swat teams which is who took these guys out.

Like I said you have no idea what you are ranting about.

The fact that you think these were regular police that took these guys out shows how lost you are.
 

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Did I miss the grenade launchers that were used yesterday?


I doubt you actually read these, these are the things he does not want regular police forces using.

But the changes to federal policies on the use of military equipment for police received most of the attention, following the use of armored trucks, riot gear, tear gas and assault rifles by police last year in Ferguson, Mo., where days of unrest followed the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old man.

Banned will be tracked armored vehicles, bayonets, grenade launchers, camouflage uniforms, and large-caliber weapons and ammunition.

"So we're going to prohibit some equipment made for the battlefield that is not appropriate for local police departments," Obama said. "There's other equipment that may be needed in certain cases, but only with proper training."
 
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You said weapons which he never advocated taking away and he was talking about regular police forces not swat teams which is who took these guys out.

Like I said you have no idea what you are ranting about.

The fact that you think these were regular police that took these guys out shows how lost you are.
Nah, you can't spin out of this one. The SWAT teams are part of the police force, and those are the departments he is targeting. Period.
 

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Wait, it just dawned on me, do you think SWAT teams are their own department?
 

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Nah, you can't spin out of this one. The SWAT teams are part of the police force, and those are the departments he is targeting. Period.
If you say so.

And none of the stuff he wanted to ban was used yesterday so you are still way off base with this.

But hey Obama and stuff.
 

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Wait, it just dawned on me, do you think SWAT teams are their own department?
No they are not their own departments, the are separated from the regular police force like special forces are different than regular soilders.

They have different equipment and are trained differently.

And you have yet to acknowledge that nothing he banned was used or needed yesterday.

So what the hell are you talking about anyway.
 

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No they are not their own departments, the are separated from the regular police force like special forces are different than regular soilders.

They have different equipment and are trained differently.

And you have yet to acknowledge that nothing he banned was used or needed yesterday.

So what the hell are you talking about anyway.
I guess you missed the armored vehicles and high caliber rifles.
 

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I guess you missed the armored vehicles and high caliber rifles.
I guess you missed what he was actually banning.

Banned will be tracked armored vehicles, bayonets, grenade launchers, camouflage uniforms, and large-caliber weapons and ammunition.
Do you know what caliber he was talking about or the caliber that was used here?

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.
Did you see any 50 cal munitions used or weapons that could fire them?

Like I said nothing on those list were used here or were needed, but don't let that stop your outrage.
 
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