...officers in this video

http://mic.com/articles/117512/surveillance-video-shows-just-how-easy-it-is-for-police-to-get-away-with-almost-anything



Is policework the only job where you can assault innocent people with malicious intent, lie about it, and still get to keep your job?

What the fucking fuck???


Surveillance Video Shows Just How Easy It Is For Police to Get Away With Almost Anything

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"When Jason Disitso saw New York Police Department Officer Jonathan Munoz walk up to his friend and begin inappropriately touching her, sticking his hand in her pockets and frisking her [ http://jezebel.com/video-nypd-attacks-and-arrests-man-for-filming-a-cop-p-1701890381 ], he did what anyone concerned with her safety might do in the 21st century: He asked another friend for his cell phone and began recording Munoz. Minutes later, Disitso was being driven away in cuffs. According to sworn testimony from Munoz, the March 12, 2014, incident escalated [ http://gothamist.com/2015/04/29/cop_watch.php ] quickly when Disitso tried to punch him. But that's not what happened. Though the officers did seize Disitso's phone, nearby surveillance cameras caught the entire incident on tape. From the footage, it's perfectly clear that Disitso never took a swing at the police. Instead, the boys in blue look an awful lot like they decided to bring him in for merely exercising his right to film law enforcement in public. From another angle, the camera picks up just how aggressive the officers got with Disitso just moments after the incident began. The recovered surveillance shows Munoz was primarily interested in getting that phone out of Disitso's hand. That goes a long way towards explaining why the charges against Disitso were, according to Gothamist [ http://gothamist.com/2015/04/29/cop_watch.php ] , dropped on July 11 and both Munoz and his partner Edwin Florez have been placed on modified duty (desk work). Both Internal Affairs and the Manhattan district attorney's office are investigating the incident, and Disitso is suing the city. Seeing is believing. Without the video, this story would have most likely played out another way — with Disitso facing charges for attacking an officer, and Officers Flores and Munoz still patrolling the streets of the city, harassing women with no consequences."

On second thought... Fuck the Police, period. Because this:

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"Alarmingly, if this recent report [ http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/videotaping-cops-nypd-first-ammendment-can-I-tape-police-301551771.html ] from NBC 4 News is any indication, this kind of thing happens all the time. The Civilian Complaint Review Board "investigated 42 cases over a six-month span in 2014 where civilians videotaped police," according to NBC 4 News, in which 27 involved alleged police misconduct, despite the law being "very clear that officers should not interfere with a person videotaping a police." As for prosecuting Munoz for allegedly lying about the incident in a police report, good luck. A 2014 FiveThirtyEight investigation [http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/allegations-of-police-misconduct-rarely-result-in-charges ] found officers are rarely convicted or incarcerated for any kind of alleged misconduct, while New York Civil Liberties Union senior attorney Alexis Karteron told NBC that city officers routinely disregard both the law and NYPD policy on the right of citizens to record police. This just goes to show how easy it is for the police to arbitrarily decide to arrest someone for doing nothing wrong, in full view of the public, and then lie about it with full confidence they will be treated with impunity. Sans cameras, it would have been Munoz's word against Disitso's. Who knows how often this really happens? Watch the full video [ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=800_1430343759 ], with commentary, below."

But go ahead and please do tell me how the police in Brazil, Pakistan, South Africa, or Bosnia is worse.

[Edited on May 6, 2015 at 1:59 AM. Reason : Fuck]

5/6/2015 1:31:16 AM

I mean this sincerely: Is it news to you that many cops abuse their power?

5/6/2015 8:07:27 AM

Do office workers in Brazil, Pakistan, South Africa, or Bosnia also steal paper towels from their employer?

5/6/2015 8:34:58 AM

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"I mean this sincerely: Is it news to you that many cops abuse their power?"

Furthermore, were you really one of those that believed all of those 'dangerous minorities' were lying about police brutality and abuse this entire time?

5/6/2015 9:30:24 AM

I'd like to stick my hands in all her crevices too.

5/6/2015 12:40:48 PM

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"I mean this sincerely: Is it news to you that many cops abuse their power?"

I hope you have posted this in the million other threads that came before this one?

The news is not that some police are corrupt, rather, the news is -- or if it is not, it should be -- that the whole system is corrupt and protects corrupt and abusive officers by hardly every punishing them, in the country that prides itself the most on the world stage for democracy, freedom, and human rights.

5/7/2015 3:51:05 AM

http://gawker.com/dad-calls-cops-on-son-to-teach-him-a-lesson-cops-shoot-1460159897

5/7/2015 7:35:44 AM

It was commenting more on the incredulity you seem to have. The other threads are all successive posts of brutality/excessive force/questionable arrest of blacks. I think the US -- for the most part -- is aware that they have several problems with law enforcement. It's not news that the system is corrupt; the data suggests this; the fact the we have phrases like "the blue shield" suggests this; the fact that there are several apps on iOS and Android for facilitating recording of the police -- something completely legal -- suggests that. It's definitely hypocritical to pride ourselves on these values while our justice system suggests otherwise, but that's kind of the point isn't it? We values these things and we're striving for them despite the fuckedupness of our past and its lasting effects on our present.

5/7/2015 7:56:05 AM

This shoes all 3 camera angles. The dude never lunged at anybody.
http://jezebel.com/video-nypd-attacks-and-arrests-man-for-filming-a-cop-p-1701890381

5/7/2015 10:41:38 AM