The evidence is growing, and I dare say relatively substantially. How many people can they do this to before it reaches a tipping point? How many people can continue to ignore the blatant double-standard? How many citizens carry camera phones and won’t hesitate to film these atrocities? How many evermore intrusive government programs will The People accept, before they realize we’re on the brink of America turning into East Germany?

A tipping point will come sooner or later. It will be a struggle on many fronts, but we outnumber these clowns. It just depends on how many people wake up in time.

Sickening, absolutely disgusting.

No, it was in a 55 mph zone.

More DUI attorneys should stop trying to convince a jury or DA
that the defendant is sober and more time trying to convince them
he/she is a “trooper.” Let’s face it, that’s the best way out of the mess…

The NYPD and Nassau County stories sound like positive developments. The big question is whether Special Victims can keep DI Bartoszek from throwing his weight around. Maybe it’s dubious to give him what is widely regarded as a promotion, but getting him out of his usual element might disrupt him enough to keep him from bullying his new charges. It’s a good sign that he’ll now be in command of a more senior staff than he had at the 79. His new subordinates will probably have more confidence to tell him to stuff it if he gets out of line, and he won’t have any probationary officers to push around on a regular basis.

Also, Radley, thanks for alerting me to the Captains Endowment Association. That group sounds like a bunch of horses’ asses devoted to bitching about how shitty commanders get a raw deal when they fuck up.

A Civil Service Commission has ruled that a Denver police officer who was fired after driving 143 mph while intoxicated should get his job back. In 2009, the same officer was accused of pointing his gun at a McDonald’s employee for taking too much time to fill his order. He was cleared of any wrongdoing.

Am I wrong to hope that, when that officer finally kills someone, it is one of the members of that Civil Service Commission?

While there are a lot of parallels between an un-winnable foreign war and the un-winnable drug war, I can’t imagine that cops experience anything close to what people experience in real war torn places. So I can’t even feel sympathy for the notion that crooked cops are products of an environment that breeds this kind of corruption.

I just can’t make sense out of it. How the fuck can cops do this? If most of us wouldn’t act like this, what the hell makes others do it? Even if I was the police cheif with zero accountibilty I still wouldn’t let one of my cops keep their job after a DUI or beating the shit out of someone. If you’re a police cheif, what benefit do you get out of having a loose canon on your squad?

This is the same reasoning that has prevented Cincinnati from firing multiple officers. Something tells me that if a regular member of the public tried to use that defense they’d be laughed out of court.