This is completely backwards. Women often have to use their guns when a big man might be able to intimidate without even raising a hand.

Why bother when the cop actually committed armed robbery?

Meanwhile, the LAPD and, amazingly, the New Orleans PD, appear to be really cleaning up their acts, both under chiefs who rose through the ranks but have the courage to fire bad cops.

If this is true, it is wonderful. Most likely these chiefs are firing bad cops because it is beneficial to them today (riding the wave when nothing else will work). Once entrenched, they might very well find it beneficial to cover-up for bad cops again. Pretty easy to understand. Which is why we need to rely less on finding an individual super hero and more on empowering the peasants and weakening the state agents.

strictly speaking “deleting” anything on non-volatile memory (ssd, hdd) doesn’t actually delete that item. It simply frees it for other use. It is only truly deleted when it’s overwritten.

And it always has been. It’s far just more obvious to privileged white people now.

Even more amazing is how infrequently these misbehaving police are held accountable. If the story is true, how could this behavior lead to anything other than jail for the officer involved?

Oh, yeah. I forgot their motto:

Protect & Serve (Themselves!)

It occurs to me that maybe the stage-managed dominatrix aggression of the “Police Women” series is starting to influence real policewomen in the United States. I certainly doubt that “COPS” had a good influence on the generation of real cops whose pensions are now starting to vest. Americans spend so much fucking time in front of the boob tube that this sort of mental corruption seems plausible. Many Americans have a serious problem discerning reality from television spectacles, and it’s clear that many police commanders are asleep at the switch, complicit or hamstrung.

We badly need commanders who tell their cops that if they wish to be roller derby queens or UFC cretins when off duty, that’s their business, but they need to leave the act at the precinct door and be cops–specifically, good cops, because bad cops don’t go home.

The same thing should apply to Ehrenbaum keepers like our Germanic friend in Portland (saith the Roth calling the Kruger Teutonic): as long as you don’t channel the SS at work, whatever, but please, for the love of God, get permission from the owner of the tree first.

No, what’s what’s amazing is how the parts of government that are supposed to be in authority over the police are so scared of them that they allow them to continually get away with this stuff. We’re seeing a progression-when cops learned that they were allowed to beat black people with impunity they graduated to the point where they could beat anybody and now they’re even fucking with the press. I guess until they beat the fuck out of the president or someone really important nothing’s going to change.

So there is NO incentive to prevent or punish this conduct. They all laugh it off.

Seriously, though, Albuquerque PD’s failure to discipline Lopez is damning. She should be fired, and whether it’s because the brass are impotent or unwilling, their failure to fire her suggests that discipline and oversight of the Albuquerque police force is effectively nonexistent.

These cases are starting to make me wonder whether egregious police misconduct is mainly just shifting inland (the big exception is the NYPD, which is going to hell in a handbasket again). Maybe the trouble was there all along and the press just wasn’t looking, but one of the most heinous cases to come to light recently happened in Denver, followed by this case in Albuquerque, and of course Joe Arpaio has largely gotten a pass for being a huge horse’s ass because he’s a telegenic publicity hound. (I wouldn’t expect the dolts who do most national police beat coverage to look for trouble in something as boring as AZPOST recruitment standards.) Meanwhile, the LAPD and, amazingly, the New Orleans PD, appear to be really cleaning up their acts, both under chiefs who rose through the ranks but have the courage to fire bad cops.

A great many prosecutors are cop wanna-bees who distain the danger but want the power trip. And they get it (also, curtesy of the Supreme Court’s imagination, absolute immunity for wrongdoing). They can suborn perjury in color on 35mm tape with perfect audio and YOU can’t sue. Another prosecutor may bring charges, a judge may not throw out the case, and, if convicted, they may get probation. In many states the loss of their legal license isn’t a sure thing. Becuase, of course, everyone IN the CJ System is thinking “there, for the grace of God, go I.”