Most of you will have seen the recent scandal where the police shot an unarmed black man multiple times in the back while he was standing in his own grandmother’s back yard, holding a cell phone that officers mistook for a gun. Read more Brainy Sacramento Solve Police Brutality Problem: African Americans Banned from Carrying Cell Phones!
“It was dark out and he was black. I was just shooting my gun off into the night for fun and he got in the way.”
“I can’t count beyond 3.”
“I got carpal tunnel from doing so much paperwork and it caused my finger to lock up on the trigger.”
“Oops! Forgot I wasn’t at target practice!” Read more Possible Excuses For A Policeman To Shoot A Black Kid In The Back 16 Times.
If your city is like most others in this great country, it is no doubt struggling to pay its bills and balance its budget – unless your town is Beverly Hills, in which case you can stop reading now.
No one knows how our cities have fallen into such financial distress.
Could it be that for decades tax rates have steadily declined while we citizens have relentlessly demanded safer bridges, better schools, and daycare centers for our pets? Read more Help your town. Become a criminal
“She might have had an Uzi in her panties.”
“She could be a Kung-Fu expert and have attacked all nine of us and beaten us up.”
“They could have had this whole pool party rigged with explosives Columbine style and she was running to set them off.”
“There is always the possibility that she is an Isis sympathizer and had explosives in her bikini top.” Read more Police Excuses As To Why They Threw A Fifteen Year Old Black, Bikini Clad, Barefoot Girl To The Ground And Pinned Her Down In McKinney, Texas.
The New York Police twice turning their backs on Mayor de Blasio during his speeches at the funerals of two slain officers gives a strong indication of exactly where their whole racial problem started.
The police showing disrespect for the Mayor and a total lack of ability to see his point of view is the heart of the problem that has plagued the NYPD for decades. Read more N.Y. Police Turning Backs On de Blasio Illustrate Exactly Where The City’s Problems Lie
At dawn on April 28th in 1973 Add Armstead, a black resident of Queens, New York, and his girlfriend’s son Clifford were walking down the street on the way to his weekend work at junkyard.
Suddenly a car pulls up and a white guy opens the door. He has a gun in his hand.
Thinking he was a robber, Armstead and the boy took off running. They heard the gunman yell “You black son of a bitches!”, then gunshots. The boy cried out “I’m shot!” and fell. Read more Before Ferguson & Choking Death Of Eric Garner There Was Clifford Glover
It’s a fair question, but one with a very clesOar answer. Could we really keep all body camera footage from all officers in the cloud? You bet your beaten bottom, Virginia.
At the state, local and federal level, there are fewer than 1.3 million full-time and full-time equivalent officers in the US. Tracking down exact data is difficult, but it seems only about 60% of them are actually interacting with the public. Read more Yes, Virginia, It is possible to store 100% of police body cameras
