Comments on: Federal Judge Says NYPD Plagued by “Widespread Falsification by Arresting Officers”

By: Federal Judge Says NYPD Plagued by “Widespread Falsification by Arresting Officers” « Big Bear Observation Post

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:56:50 +0000

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By: Don Cordell

Don Cordell — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:56:52 +0000

review items #59, 63, 64, and 65 on my website, to see my response to these creeps. You have no idea to what extreme they will go to screw the public. I hate cops with a passion. I’ve never been guilty of any crime, but I’ve been harrassed by the police since 1944, just so they can prove they’ve got balls. The cops in California confiscate about $2 Billion a year, from citizens, bragging that they have a right to that money, that we are such suckers, that the cops deserve it. Since 99% of our money already tests positive for drugs, they have a dog sniff your money, and it’s theirs. Aren’t you proud that we have someone to Protect and Serve us. Don’t you dare tape cops doing wrong, they will bust you for interferring with the performance of their duties, and bash you, and confiscate your cameras.
It is against the law to demand honest cops? Are you ready to stop this, or will you continue to surrender your rights? Patriot or Coward?

By: Friedrich Paul Berg

Friedrich Paul Berg — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:38:16 +0000

Is there even one police department anywhere in this country that does not have a “blue line” for its police officers? What that means is that police men will a-l-w-a-y-s lie under oath to protect fellow police officers from any kind of outside criticism or punishment or discipline. And the magistrates will rubber stamp the police officers’ lies under oath.

The “criminal justice system” of this country is itself criminal. The situation is so monstrous that nothing short of a bloody revolution can correct it.

By: JOR

JOR — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:19:45 +0000

All cops are corrupt. Period.

By the way, I am using the word “corrupt” to mean morally corrupt. Of course most cops aren’t “corrupt” in the professional sense. In fact, very, very few of them are. Busting into innocent people’s (or nonviolent “criminals’”) houses, breaking their shit, shooting their dogs and terrorizing them; killing Good Samaritan pastors and then covering their asses; tasing 10-year-old girls; falsifying evidence and coercing confessions; highway robbery… that’s all morally corrupt stuff. But it’s not professionally corrupt for cops – it’s all just part of what their job IS. You know. They were following all the proper procedures.

So yeah, the vast majority of cops are good cops, in the same sense as hit men who take out their contracts efficiently are good hit men.

By: ravenshrike

ravenshrike — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:29:32 +0000

Now now Dave, if we assume vast majority to mean 80%, which is obviously more than a simple majority or supermajority, that still means 1 in 5 cops are corrupt. In reality it’s probably lower than that as well when averaged out among all cops.

By: Donte

Donte — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:41:51 +0000

Well at least he made it clear that it does go on, check out some more stories of the whole dirty system here,

http://www.dirtbadge.com/

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Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 02 December 2009 | ***Dave Does the Blog — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:03:13 +0000

[...] Federal Judge Says NYPD Plagued by “Widespread Falsification by Arresting Officers” – With great power has to come great responsibility. Remember this next time you hear about some slam-dunk criminal case (not to mention the next time someone blames the problems with the criminal justice system on lawyers and “liberal judges”). [...]

By: UNRR

UNRR — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:23:32 +0000

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By: JS

JS — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:50:53 +0000

I think you’re right BamBam. I wish Radley would get his own show. They gave that douchebag Huckabee a show. Why can’t they give Radley a show?

By: BamBam

BamBam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:35:03 +0000

Why don’t the media get as outraged by all this as they do over Tiger Woods refusing to talk to the police?

Could it be that the media is part of the problem and are controlled propaganda, and also operate on the premise of “sex/garbage” sells (not sure what it sells)? I don’t see how anyone can believe that the media, year after year after year, spews non-important data and it’s because that is “what the people want”.

By: JS

JS — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:22 +0000

Mattocracy “I don’t understand why civil rights activists aren’t more vocal about these things. Did that just die off with the rest of the hippie movement?

Yea thats what I always wonder about too. Also why is the stuff Radley reports so regularly not on the evening news? Why don’t the media get as outraged by all this as they do over Tiger Woods refusing to talk to the police?

By: Mattocracy

Mattocracy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:24:21 +0000

Cops always manage to lose or misplace recoded evidence of their wrong doings. Or just take it away from a private citizen when they want to. Trusting the government to police itself hasn’t proven very effective.

I don’t understand why civil rights activists aren’t more vocal about these things. Did that just die off with the rest of the hippie movement?

By: LOLcat

LOLcat — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:55:33 +0000

With the ubiquity/low price of recording equipment would it really be so awful to make cops record everything they do? That way, every crime would be documented on video/audio. Without the tape, no convictions.

By: MikeZ

MikeZ — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:45:39 +0000

Nando,
I’d say I agree their should be more video, but your putting the burden on the wrong party. That police actions aren’t video taped is certainly a problem but it shouldn’t be upto private citizens to videotape all police actions. An always on video camera should be part of any law enforcement officers uniform. Any undercover operation without video or audio tape should be tossed as there is no way to determine who is telling the truth in a he said/she said situation.

By: pegr

pegr — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:36:19 +0000

I’ll say it again: There is no such thing as a good cop. If such shenanigans are so prevalent, all the cops know about it, yet they do nothing.

There is no such thing as a good cop. Period. Done. End of story.

By: Edmund Dantes

Edmund Dantes — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:08:53 +0000

The dancing done the street things is what gets me. It’s also what I took away from one of those “cop” shows. I was in the UK for a couple of weeks and they have one of those “Customs Cops” shows, and one of the people they followed was the guy in charge of seizing undeclared money. The interesting part is that the money sniffing dog found cash on a Thai lady returning home. She was a little evasive about it, and they kept digging. Turns out the women had like 17000 lbs on her tied up in bundles in her luggage. Now the customs guys are getting excited. Really questioning her hard. Really going at where’s this money from, where’d you get it, etc… she isn’t really answering other than to say “it’s mine”. So the cops are in the process of seizing all the cahs. For some reason, she finally remembers she has a bank book. Pulls it out. It shows that money came from her account. So she gets to go free with the cash.

The sick part is the quote from the agent as she gets on the plane. “I thought we were going to get to seize some cash. It sucks having it torn out of your hands like that” paraphrase, but his quote amounted to his disappointment that he didn’t get to seize the money. It wasn’t “well we did our job, she proved it was hers, and she’s free to go.” It was very much ” I can’t believe that moeny got away” regardless of whether they actually deserved to seize it.

This is the mentality that is out there now, and it’s why civil forfeiture is so rife for abuse.

By: tb

tb — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:06:53 +0000

Steve Verdon,

I have argued the judges and prosecutors are overly credulous when it comes to the police. I’ve argued that they should start from a position where each side could be equally likely of telling the truth or not.

We are supposed to have this: an adversarial court system with a presumption of innocence for the accused. Shit just doesn’t work that way in real life.

By: Eric the .5b

Eric the .5b — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:59:39 +0000

Nando: In the UK, at least, they always seem to have trouble finding the tapes of the incident if police misconduct is involved.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:53:51 +0000

I have argued the judges and prosecutors are overly credulous when it comes to the police. I’ve argued that they should start from a position where each side could be equally likely of telling the truth or not.

By: JS

JS — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:38:00 +0000

ktc2 “Holy shit Don! Don’t give them ideas! The fact that they’re too stupid to have ideas is the only edge we have.”

lol man you been on a roll lately!