Police/correctional officers behaving badly

While the chyron focuses on one cop having 3 DUIs thrown out, the real gist of the story seems to be:

  • Greater reliance on field sobriety tests, rather than breathalyzers, due to breathalyzers not being useful for so many forms of “influence”.
  • Tennessee is backlogged in processing blood tests for intoxicating substances.
  • Field sobriety tests are imperfect, resulting in sober drivers being arrested and charged with DUI.

In fairness, this isn’t necessarily police behaving badly…but I didn’t want to start a thread just for limitations of our justice system that cause headaches for innocent people.

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I think this belongs here?

Freed murder convict sues Chicago over eyewitness who turned out to be blind

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/28/chicago-blind-witness-murder-sued/

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Should have been that one guy on the jury…

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I would fry them for this one.

https://wapo.st/3AqEBuW

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These police just get dumber and dumber. How do you expect a police officer to catch a criminal if they’re dumber than the criminal?

While this isn’t strictly speaking Police behaving badly yet…

Google-translated article

The headline is bad enough. This makes it that much worse.

And it gets even worse as you go down from there. Solid candidates for the “people who do bad stuff and I say fry 'em” thread.

Seems like we’ll likely be seeing this story in the news at some point in the future. At the moment, it’s just a one-sided thread of tweets.

Sheriff shoots and kills the judge in his chambers.

Details are fuzzy, but there was a sheriff from the same county recently alleged to have coerced sex from a woman in exchange for leniency. May be the same person, or related.

According to a tourism website, the county is renowned for its judge shooting, Appalachian mountain hiking trails, horseback riding, fishing and outdoor camping.

I fixed their website.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/12/12/justice-department-school-police-child-sex-abuse-guidelines/

Posting an excerpt below in case this gets paywalled. If more than 200 police officers were criminally charged, I have to think a multiple of that were not charged. Likely a huge number of victims.

Article:
The agency began drafting the new guidance in September, after a Washington Post investigation
revealed that predatory school police officers have used their positions to meet, groom and exploit students, while the Justice Department and many law enforcement agencies and school systems have failed to take basic steps to prevent sexual misconduct and root out abusive cops.

The Post identified more than 200 elementary, middle and high school police officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022. Dozens of these cops were accused of violating children on school grounds, including in their offices.

But let’s arm those same people to prevent school shootings. Because what can go wrong?

Somewhere in one of these GoA threads I remember being against liberal use of school resource officers and somebody being extremely for them. Wish it were easier to find.

Is it just “enforcing the law” or behaving badly by being an incredible asshat while under the guise of enforcing the law? Doesn’t matter, we should all have better than this.

What started out as a biased article eventually told a more complete story and was fairly balanced.

NYPD officers have been caught inflating their overtime hours.

This has been going on for a long time, but even for them…this was a pretty brazen instance of this type of fraud.

How about a state’s entire prison system behaving badly?

FFS how can it be legal in 35 states for police to have sex with someone in custody?

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Consider who we just elected to be President.

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