The Great Police Work Thread

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Dude, PM me and when I get back from Cleveland we'll have to meet up for lunch or something!
 

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I would like to see these statistics so we can compare.

And don't people of all colors get pushed through because of things other than there ability to do the job, why are you single out black cops are they more lazy than white cops?
Ok, the topic is black lives matter and minority relations, and how blacks are treated differently than others regarding complaints and assaults. First of all it's "their ability", not "there ability", and I didn't say lazier than white cops, I said "but there are also black officers that have developed into lazy, do as little as possible complainers that previous supervisors have never dealt with properly for fear of being labeled racist". And while it is the case that there are white officer that are the same, it isn't the case that the need for diversity puts leadership in a position to promote them if they aren't qualified. I didn't say that white folk that aren't qualified don't ever get promoted.
Lastly, Check the video that was posted here a few pages back. He gives the statistics that are pretty accurate.
 

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Missouri City to Pay $4.7 Million to Settle Suit Over Jailing Practices
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSONJULY 15, 2016


People protested outside the Police Department and municipal court in Pine Lawn, Mo. last year. The St. Louis County court system has come under scrutiny for jailing people who cannot pay traffic fines or other charges. Credit Whitney Curtis for The New York Times
A small city bordering Ferguson, Mo., has agreed to pay $4.7 million to compensate nearly 2,000 people who spent time in the city’s jail for not paying fines and fees related to traffic and other relatively petty violations.

The agreement is part of a legal settlement that received preliminary approval in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on Wednesday, and would bring to a close a suit filed against the city of Jennings, Mo. in February 2015. The suit argued that the “Dickensian system” of jailing people, many of them poor and black, for unpaid fines and fees was unconstitutional.

The municipal courts in St. Louis County, where Jennings is located, have drawn intensive scrutiny over the past two years, including attention from the Justice Department. A lawyer involved in the suit against Jennings said that such a system is not unique to that area, and that efforts were being made to end similar practices elsewhere in the country.

“This historic settlement is part of a national movement to change how indifferent we’ve become to putting human beings in cages, and to end the notion that courts can be used as tools of revenue generation rather than places of justice,” said Alec Karakatsanis, whose Washington-based nonprofit organization, Equal Justice Under Law, brought the suit with the Arch City Defenders, a Missouri nonprofit group, and the St. Louis University School of Law.

The suit against Jennings was filed the same day as one against Ferguson; both sought an end to some of the cities’ jailing practices, as well as compensation for those who had been caught up in them. If the settlement receives final approval from Judge Carol E. Jackson at a hearing in December, it could lead to compensation for people who, combined, spent nearly 8,300 days in the city’s jail between early 2010 and late 2015.

The St. Louis County court system came to national attention in summer 2014 after Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson policeman. Many of the 90 cities around the county were generating substantial proportions of their revenues by aggressively charging fines and fees for violations as minor as broken taillights. Warrants were issued for those who could not or did not pay, and jail time for unpaid traffic tickets was routine.

The courts in St. Louis city and the county collected over $60 million in revenue in 2013, according to a report by the St. Louis-based nonprofit Better Together, with some cities depending on such fines for more than 40 percent of their general fund. The report found that the cities most dependent on such revenue were majority African-American with large impoverished populations.

Those who were fined and jailed would routinely be shuttled around the county from jail to jail on various warrants for unpaid traffic tickets. In Jennings, which has a population of roughly 14,750, the lawsuit found that the city had issued about twice as many warrants as there were households, “mostly in cases involving unpaid debt for tickets.” In 2013, a 24-year-old inmate in the Jennings jail who was imprisoned for unpaid tickets hanged himself.

The plaintiffs in the suit were eight “impoverished people” who had spent time in the city jail, which was described in the suit as crowded, foul and unhealthy.

The city of Jennings agreed last year to a settlement over its jailing practices, which ended the system of putting people in jail for unpaid fines, got rid of the use of cash bail and required the court to set up a payment plan for a person who owed a fine, depending on the person’s ability to pay.

A message left at the office of D. Keith Henson, a lawyer representing the city, was not returned.

The lawsuit in Ferguson is seeking to end similar practices, some of which were resolved in a settlement between the city and the Justice Department in March. Last summer, on the eve of a new state law adding new regulations to municipal courts, cities around the county, including Ferguson, withdrew thousands of warrants.

But practices that are contested in the lawsuit remain, Mr. Karakatsanis said, and the issue of compensation has not been resolved.

A trial is set for next July. Robert T. Plunkert, a lawyer who is representing the city of Ferguson, said he could not comment as it was pending litigation.
 

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Report: Three Baton Rouge police officers shot near BRPD HQ
WBRZ and WWLTV.com , WWL 10:12 AM. CDT July 17, 2016

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Advocate reports that two Baton Rouge police officers have been killed after shots were fired near police headquarters Sunday morning, according to William Daniel, the city's chief administrative officer.

The officers were shot near police headquarters early Sunday - and - as of 9:30 a.m. a manhunt was on for the suspect or suspects.

An active shooter situation was described in the area and Airline Highway was closed in both directions between Goodwood Boulevard and I-12.

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This shit has got to stop.
 

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3 Baton Rouge officers killed in shooting; suspect dead




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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation into the shooting deaths of three Baton Rouge police officers says the shooter has been identified as Gavin Long.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The official did not have any other details on Long.

EARLIER STORY: BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were killed and three others wounded Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests across the city that reverberated nationwide.

Police said the suspect was shot and killed at the scene. Authorities initially believed that two other assailants might be at large, but hours later said the dead gunman was the only person who fired at the officers.

However, a state police spokesman said investigators were unsure whether he had some kind of help from others.

"We are not ready to say he acted alone," Major Doug Cain said.

Two people were detained in the nearby town of Addis. Cain called them "persons of interests."

The shooting — which took place just before 9 a.m., less than a mile from police headquarters — came amid escalating tensions across the country between the black community and police. The races of the suspect and the officers were not immediately known.

It was the fourth high-profile deadly encounter in the United States involving police over the past two weeks. The violence has left 12 people dead, including eight police officers, and sparked a national conversation over race and policing.

According to reports, one of the suspects is dead and two other are believed to be at large. Police officials are looking for anyone in full black or a mask. The residents have been asked to keep away from the scene of crime. The incident is seen as a revenge for the Alton Sterling and Dallas shootings that happened earlier this month.

President Barack Obama said the slayings were attacks "on the rule of law and on civilized society, and they have to stop." He said there was no justification for violence against law enforcement and that the attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one.

The attack began at a gas station on Airline Highway. The slain shooter's body was next door, outside a fitness center. Police said they were using a specialized robot to check for explosives near the body.

Gov. John Bel Edwards rushed to the hospital where the shot officers were taken.

"There simply is no place for more violence," Edwards said. "That doesn't help anyone. It doesn't further the conversation. It doesn't address any injustice perceived or real. It is just an injustice in and of itself."

A witness told television station WAFB that he saw a masked man in black shorts and shirt running from the scene where the three officers were killed.

Brady Vancel said the man looked like a pedestrian running with a rifle in his hand, rather than someone trained to move with a rifle.

Vancel said he had gone to work on a flooring job near the gas station when he heard semi-automatic gunfire and perhaps a handgun. He saw a man in a red shirt lying in an empty parking lot and "another gunman running away as more shots were being fired back and forth from several guns."

That area was about a quarter of a mile from a gas station, where almost nightly protests had been taking place.

Five officers were rushed to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Ashley Mendoza said.

Of the two who survived the shooting, one was in critical condition and the other was in fair condition. Multiple police vehicles were stationed at the hospital, and a police officer with a long gun was blocking the parking lot at the emergency room.

One officer was sent to Baton Rouge General Medical Center and was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, spokeswoman Meghan Parrish said.

Officers and deputies from the Baton Rouge Police Department and East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office were involved, Hicks said.

Each of the officers was married and had a family, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said.

Police-community relations in Baton Rouge have been especially tense since the death of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man killed by white officers July 5 after a scuffle at a convenience store. The killing was captured on widely circulated cellphone video.

It was followed a day later by the shooting death of another black man in Minnesota, whose girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath of his death on Facebook. The next day, a black gunman in Dallas opened fire on police at a protest about the police shootings, killing five officers and heightening tensions even further.

Thousands of people have protested Sterling's death, and Baton Rouge police arrested more than 200 demonstrators.

Sterling's nephew condemned the killing of the three officers.

Terrance Carter spoke Sunday to The Associated Press by telephone, saying the family just wants peace.

"My uncle wouldn't want this," Carter said. "He wasn't this type of man.

Michelle Rogers said Sunday the pastor at her church had led prayers Sunday for Sterling's family and police officers, asking members of the congregation to stand up if they knew an officer.

Rogers said an officer in the congregation hastily left the church near the end of the service, and a pastor announced that "something had happened."

"But he didn't say what. Then we started getting texts about officers down," she said.

Rogers and her husband drove near the scene, but were blocked at an intersection closed down by police.

"I can't explain what brought us here," she said. "We just said a prayer in the car for the families."
 

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I guess black police officers lives don't matter.
 

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God, just so sad.
 

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July 17 (Reuters) - The gunman who killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been identified as a former U.S. Marine named Gavin Long, according to a government source with knowledge of the investigation.

Officials speaking publicly have not yet released the name of the suspected killer or any details, beyond saying they believed the single shooter was killed in the shootout.

Another source familiar with the investigation told Reuters Long, 29, was from Kansas City, Missouri. The source said there was reason to believe a 911 call may have been used to lure police to the shooting scene, and that the possibility it had been a conspiracy was being examined by investigators.

Long, who was black, was affiliated with the anti-government New Freedom Group, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person briefed on the investigation. A spokeswoman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups, said she had no information about that.

Long served in the Marines for five years, from August 2005 to August 2010, according to a report in the New York Times, citing Yvonne Carlock, the deputy public affairs officer for the U.S. Marines. Long was deployed to Iraq from June 2008 to January 2009, the Times reported.

CBS News reported that Long left the Marines with an honorable discharge in 2010 with the rank of sergeant.

Public records show Long had lived in Kansas City and Grandview, Missouri. He had also lived in San Diego and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Long was on the University of Alabama dean's honor list in 2012, school records show.

Missouri court records show he divorced his wife in 2011, with no children at the time. There was no criminal record for him in Missouri.

Long was a defendant in a case involving delinquent city taxes. It was filed in March and was dismissed in June, according to court records.

Brady Vancel, a witness to the Baton Rouge shooting on Sunday, said on CNN that he ran into the suspect, who was dressed in black, a few minutes before the police officers were shot. The man was carrying an AR-15 assault rifle and wearing a ski mask, Vancel said.

The gunman "looked up and he saw me. We stopped, I froze, he froze for a second, and he turned around and ran in the opposite direction the same time I turned around and ran in the opposite direction," Vancel said. (Reporting by Mark Hosenball and Ian Simpson; Editing by Peter Cooney and Tiffany Wu)
 

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We basically have domestic terrorism that is active, yet our President won't acknowledge it.

So, will it take another baker's dozen before it becomes acknowledged as a real problem?
 

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We basically have domestic terrorism that is active, yet our President won't acknowledge it.

So, will it take another baker's dozen before it becomes acknowledged as a real problem?
Looks like it will take that. As scary as that sounds.
 
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